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2020
14 Dec 2020
The Brahmandarins’ new clothes: they will never forgive Trump for pointing out they’re not wearing anyoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2020
The Election Showed 75+ Million Americans Have Rejected The Establishment’s Narrative. We’re Not Going to Start Believing It Now.original ↗
3 Dec 2020
COVID19 update, November 23: Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine results; Danish study on mask effectiveness; Sweden abandons ‘Sonderweg’?original ↗
23 Nov 2020
16 Nov 2020
COVID19 update, November 10, 2020: Good news on Pfizer vaccine; whole-country testing in Slovakiaoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2020
9 Nov 2020
4 Nov 2020
COVID19 update, November 2, 2020: opposition to lockdowns crosses political boundaries; interview with Swedish coronavirus czar Anders Tegnelloriginal ↗
2 Nov 2020
COVID19 update, November 1, 2020: UK on 4-week lockdown; vitamin D, once more with feeling; Israel reopened 2nd stage; German spy chief warns against excessive dependence on Chinaoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2020
29 Oct 2020
COVID19 brief update, October 28, 2020: the devil is in the amplification cycle count; do flu shots also enhance COVID19 resilience?original ↗
28 Oct 2020
COVID19 quick updates, October 27, 2020: more on vitamin D; remdesivir skepticism; good news from Israeloriginal ↗
27 Oct 2020
COVID19 quick updates, October 26, 2020: weak flu season; Israel’s State Comptroller slams COVID19 mismanagement; masks and cough cloudsoriginal ↗
26 Oct 2020
23 Oct 2020
COVID19 update, October 17, 2020: Zinc deficiency and supplements; Remdesivir trials; Israel updateoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2020
15 Oct 2020
COVID19 update, October 11, 2020: Israel eyeing controlled exit from second lockdown; Senior WHO official: “stop using lockdowns as your primary control method”original ↗
11 Oct 2020
COVID19 update, October 8, 2020: The Great Barrington Declaration and the “modified Swedish approach”original ↗
8 Oct 2020
COVID19 mini-update, October 6, 2020: POTUS back to the White House; cheap paper strip testing; is early social distancing more effective than even tight lockdowns?original ↗
6 Oct 2020
COVID19 update, October 4, 2020: age dependence of infection fatality rate; how this explains why the second wave is much less deadly than the first; new respect for Sweden from.. the NYT?!original ↗
4 Oct 2020
3 Oct 2020
COVID19 update, October 1, 2020: interview with Scott Atlas; vitamin D recap; loss of faith in the mediaoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2020
COVID19 mini-update, September 29, 2020: anti-bacterial T-cells linked to severe COVID-19; false positive RT-PCR testsoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2020
27 Sept 2020
COVID19 update, September 25, 2020: CDC publishes revised fatality rates per age group; The new normal in Italy; petition by Belgian physicians; Israel tightens lockdown starting tomorroworiginal ↗
24 Sept 2020
COVID19 update, September 23, 2020: another Israeli study on vitamin D; logistics of vaccine distributionoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2020
COVID19 update, fall equinox edition: do many people have pre-existing immunity? Also, another look at Swedenoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2020
COVID19 update, Rosh Hashana edition: (1) Israel’s “lockdown lite”; (2) miscellaneous updatesoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2020
16 Sept 2020
13 Sept 2020
COVID19 update, September 10, 2020: Second lockdown in Israel? Not so fast, says Dr. Amir Shacharoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2020
COVID19 mini-update, September 6, 2020: Israel crosses 1,000 deaths mark; viral load correlates to severity of infection; Dr. Mina on vaccine progressoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2020
COVID19 mini-update, September 4, 2020: death rate reconsidered; bradykinin hypothesis; vitamin D reduces likelihood of ICU admissionoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2020
COVID19 update, September 2, 2020: Dr. Seheult on clinical experiences with remdesivir and dexamethasone, and why medicine is more an art than a science; Israel situation update; herd immunity reconsideredoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2020
COVID19 mini-update, August 31, 2020: Dr. John Campbell on strongly reduced infection fatality rates; not all of hi-tech immune from economic falloutoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2020
Hungary in the interbellum and in WW II: The “other Versailles treaty” and the Horthy regimeoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2020
COVID19 breaking news, August 28, 2020: New Belgian large-cohort study shows hydroxychloroquine significantly reduces mortalityoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2020
COVID19 special update, August 26, 2020: Reinfection? Not so fast! Also: miscellaneous updatesoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2020
COVID19 update, August 24, 2020: rapid breathalyzer-type test; another drug target revealed?; statistical confusion; antibodies in breast milkoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2020
COVID19 mini-update, August 24, 2020: clinical study on convalescent plasma [UPDATE: emergency approval issued]; UK media push for reopening schoolsoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2020
18 Aug 2020
COVID19 mini-update, August 17, 2020: Canada and an unusual super-spreader; a physician reports from Stockholm; herd immunity redux; viricidal coatings for hospital and household objectsoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2020
COVID19 update, August 16, 2020: insights on superspreading; exodus from dense urban centers; mask mandates on Zoom calls [satire-proof]; politicization of academia and science.original ↗
16 Aug 2020
15 Aug 2020
COVID19 update, August 13, 2020: first impressions of Sonovia and Argaman (BioBlocX) masksoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2020
COVID19 update, August 12, 2020: Stanford study of immunity dysfunction in severe COVID19; lockdown critic Scott Atlas MD joins White House COVID19 task force; Russian “public beta” vaccine; misc. updatesoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2020
COVID19 update, August 11, 2020: T-cell immunity; new remdesivir-type drug for oral administration?; HOCQ prophylaxis clinical trial; New Zealand no longer corona-freeoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2020
COVID19 mini-update, August 9, 2020: Dr. Mina on inexpensive daily testing as a path to normalityoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2020
COVID19 update, August 7, 2020: what about other coronaviruses, and the common cold? Sonovia and Argaman antimicrobial masksoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2020
6 Aug 2020
COVID19 update, August 2, 2020: Has the second wave in Israel peaked; brief portrait of ‘coronavirus czar’, Prof. Roni Gamzuoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2020
COVID19 update, July 30, 2020: Cross-immunity, or: Does a past common cold protect against COVID19?original ↗
30 Jul 2020
30 Jul 2020
COVID19 update, July 29, 2020: Second wave in Europe; eyeing a new Roaring Twenties post-pandemic; Israeli ‘coronavirus czar’ unveils new plan of actionoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2020
COVID19 update, July 28, 2020: Dr. Seheult retrospective on COVID19; logistics of testing; Matt Ridley’s five reasons to be optimisticoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2020
COVID19 update, July 27, 2020: Dr. Campbell explains the science behind vitamin D and the immune systemoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2020
COVID19 update, July 26, 2020: Israeli large-cohort study shows vitamin D insufficiency linked to both higher suspectibility to COVID19 infection and larger risk of hospitalizationoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2020
COVID19 update, July 22, 2020: beta-interferon a breakthrough treatment?; As many as 50-60% of people may have pre-existing T-cell immunity; Flare-up in Belgiumoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2020
21 Jul 2020
19 Jul 2020
COVID19 update, July 18, 2020: six severity levels based on symptoms; about 90% of infections in young children are asymptomatic; ivermectin results in humans promisingoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2020
17 Jul 2020
COVID19 update, July 16, 2020: vitamin D redux; airborne transmission; impact of work-from-home on London; new revelations on T-cell response and persistent immunityoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2020
COVID19 update, July 15, 2020: some observations on per-capita mortality ranking of OECD countriesoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2020
COVID19 update, July 14, 2020: Israel’s second wave exceeds first; possible drug breakthrough; aerosol transmission; link dumporiginal ↗
14 Jul 2020
COVID19 update, July 12, 2020: Sweden redux and immunity; inhaled steroids; BCG vaccine reduxoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2020
COVID19 update, July 10, 2020: aerosol transmission; empirical studies on choir rehearsals and office buildings; some neighborhoods of NYC at herd immunity?; deaths in British care homes linked to contract labororiginal ↗
10 Jul 2020
COVID19 update, July 8, 2020: by CDC criteria about to fall below “epidemic” threshold in the USA?; Israel public health chief resigns, citing “frivolous” decision making process; Dr. Campbell on knowns and “known unknowns” of COVID19original ↗
8 Jul 2020
COVID19 update, July 6, 2020: mortality lower than generally perceived; easier to synthetize alternative to remdesivir? Tightened restrictions in Israeloriginal ↗
6 Jul 2020
COVID19 update, July 5, 2020: new large, successful hydroxychloroquine trial; China did not actually notify WHO of outbreak on 31 December 2019; vascular dementia sequelae in elderly survivors; aerosol transmission and why risk much less outdoorsoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2020
COVID19 update, July 2, 2020: Joel Kotkin and “neo-feudal” tech oligarchy; masks in the OR; the COVID age/risk calculator; Dr. Hansen on what he learned working in COVID ICUoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2020