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Meanwhile the LA Times reported yesterday that the state of California had to put in an order for 5,000 more body bags because they had almost run out. There is a real difference between someone who has to work in potentially dangerous situations (schools, hospitals, for example -- even grocery...

Bear in mind that flu season will begin to kick in now too.

It is not yet known if this new UK variant would be resistant to current vaccines, but most likely this is not a problem. BUT, this variant does produce a change in the SARS-COV-2 S-protein, and the vaccines mostly cause people to make antibodies against that protein. Usually people generate...

There are people here (one in particular) saying (in essence) that Covid-19 is no big deal, go about your lives, masks don't work, there's no extra mortality, and if there is an increase it's only old people, and the notion of long term health consequences is a scare tactic, and nothing can...

The CDC has lost credibility with me too, but not about the excess deaths issue. See this also https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-chart-us-death-figures-2020-idUSKBN2872MV As for Sweden, the government there has finally had enough of Dr. Tegnell and are starting to listen to their...

And the Table Tennis Gods commend him for doing so!

Not if you have basic reading comprehension skills. I was throwing out possibilities to explain this year's massive increase in deaths. I am allowing that not all of them are a direct result of that dead person being infected with SARS-COV-2 (300 K are, though, at least). I said nothing about...

Bad diet and sedentary lifestyles take a toll especially in the US. This is true every year. If you've ever tried to cut carbs to lose weight, and then stroll through a grocery store and look at nutritional labels itbis pretty horrifying. With that said,,this year, since Feb. 1, CDC reports...

More on the DHL office. I waited my turn outside. Another guy came and politely asked if I was waiting and I said I was waiting outside because it seemed safer. He said, "oh yeah, good idea", because he had never really thought about it before. He waited until I was done and then he went...

There is an old concept in virology called the "inoculum" which is basically the dose of virus that initially infects the person. And not surprisingly, a century of work (including on other coronaviruses studied in animals) the larger the inoculum (dose) the more severe the symptoms are likely...

There have been studies showing it's very difficult to prevent spread of Covid-19 within a single household once one person is infected. The long term effects are not well enough understood at any level to know why some people are more prone than others (but it doesn't seem to be entirely...

Takyu, in Japan the risk is lower than the US. Regarding cardiac consequences of Covid-19, the German study found this (obviously this isn't the final word on the subject) ----- Exposure Recent recovery from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection, as determined by reverse...

Next Level has been downplaying this from the start. On various previous threads he cited Dr Scott Atlas, and a pair of Fox doctors who made claims that would have been embarrassing to anyone actually in the business of science or clinical trials -- and of course arguing about the effectiveness...

NL is citing a 17 year old article on influenza. Here is a July 2020 article on Covid-19 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589790X20300640 And a summary in more ordinary language, which includes the uncertainties...

Back around November 22, the University of Florida men's basketball team had a Covid-19 outbreak that caused them to cancel some games. Their best player was among those who tested positive. Two days ago he collapsed suddenly in a game and was rushed to the hospital. He is in now in critical...

It's simply not known (and pretty much impossible to know) what amount of viral load will make you sick, because it will also depend on how deep into the airways the virions penatrate ( this will depend in part on how hard you're breathing), your immune status and about a gazillion other things...

The 6 foot rule is another one of those things that will give you a false sense of security. At this point it has no basis in reality.. As a first approximation, there are three key things that directly determine the probability that you become infected: (1) The concentration of active virus...

That Danish study should never have been published and I would bet a lot that the editor in chief overruled recommendations of the primary reviewers. The antibody tests alone have enough uncertainty to make it uninterpretable. More importantly the conditions at the time and place are not what...

As of yesterday, California has 32,988 Covid-19 case. That’s more cases than every single COUNTRY in the world except for Brazil which has 54,203 cases. So, the outbreak at ICC does not surprise me. Conditions in many parts of the US are now or soon will be as bad or worse Here are three...

This is worth reading https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/10/28/areas-with-mask-mandates-have-lower-covid-19-hospitalization-rate-study-finds-tennessee-vanderbilt/ And this...