Year: 2020
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Experts: The code that led to lockdowns was a “buggy mess”
The model that has led the UK to change its COVID-19 strategy and has caused many more countries to implement lockdowns was based on a buggy and messy code. Experts have finally seen the original code following Neil Ferguson’s resignation, and some developers are saying that it is unreadable. But the problem isn’t just with…
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Full lockdowns had no impact on COVID-19
Did full lockdowns help slowdown the spread of the coronavirus in Italy,France, Spain, and the United Kingdom? This was the question Thomas A.J. Meunier set out to answer in his new article published by medRxiv. Using a phenomenological method based on the official statistics of the four countries above, Meunier says that lockdowns did nothing to…
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What are the implications of the CDC planning scenarios?
The following article written by Daniel Horowitz takes a closed look at the CDC document [see CDC Confirms Very Low COVID-19 Death Rate In The US]. Horowitz says that with the current estimates (which are based on actual data submitted by hospitals to the CDC until April 29, 2020), we are now seeing that COVID-19 is…
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Why you haven’t caught COVID-19 yet
Update 5/30/2020: We just checked the video today and found that it has been taken down [In a previous press release, YouTube CEO said that any video that presents viewpoints that challenges WHO will be banned from the platform. This is not a new experience. To know more, read The Pandemic Of Censorship]. We have…
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CDC’s new COVID-19 planning document shows death rate much lower than WHO estimates
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (DCD) released the Pandemic Planning Scenarios last May 20, 2020 to help guide public health officials who utilize mathematical modeling for decision making. The document offers four (4) scenarios to help evaluate the potential effects of various strategies to be implemented. CDC notes that the document will…
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Israel’s former health minister criticizes hysteria around COVID-19
In this interview with Fraser Myers of spiked, Yoram Lass, former director of Israel’s Health Ministry criticizes the lockdown policies implemented in Israel and the rest of the world. According to him, there are two kinds of epidemics affecting the world today – the coronavirus and social media. Social media has facilitated the brainwashing of…
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Cebu Governor: COVID-19 not as deadly as projected
In this article published by the Philippine Daily Inquirer last May 22, 2020, Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia cites local data to support her statement that COVID-19 is not as deadly as feared. Garcia says that 80% of those who contracted the SARS-COV-2 remaiin asymptomatic, and death rate due to COVID-19 is minimal at less than…
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Singapore study shows COVID-19 patients no longer infectious after 11 days
In a joint position statement, experts from the Singapore’s National Centre for Infectious Diseases and the Academy of Medicine, Singapore estimate that SARS-COV-2 positive individuals are most infectious on the first week of infection, with infectivity declining after 7 days. Citing the results of a local study involving 766 COVID-19 patients, the statement said that…
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Japan’s COVID-19 strategy
Japan is transitioning out of its state emergency as the number of new SARS-COV-2 infections fall, despite no lockdowns, no high tech apps for tracking people’s movements, and little testing. How did Japan manage to beat the coronavirus? This article written by Lisa Du and Grace Huang for Time Magazine explores several possible factors for…
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Reopening of schools has not triggered a new wave of coronavirus infections
In this article published by The Guardian, we discover that the re-opening of schools in Europe is going well so far. Twenty-two (22) countries in Europe have re-opened schools in waves over the past month, but official statistics have not shown any significant increases in the number of infections in these countries, said Blaženka Divjak,…
