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2020
COVID19 update, June 30, 2020: droplet and aerosol transmission; herd immunity requires as little as 20%?original ↗
30 Jun 2020
COVID19 update, June 29, 2020: March 2019 sample in Barcelona? Matt Margolis on lockdowns; Germans flock to Baltic beaches; 2nd wave in Israeloriginal ↗
29 Jun 2020
COVID19 update, June 27, 2020: The Economist on how COVID-19 changed the office; reduced hospital fatality rates in the UK; initial infection rates may have been 80 times higher than reportedoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2020
COVID19 update, June 25, 2020: Greek colchicine trial; Dr. Campbell on long-term sequelae and home antibody testingoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2020
COVID19 update, June 24, 2020: vaccines progressing faster than expected; more on dexamethasone and other steroidsoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2020
COVID19 update, June 23, 2020:Dr. John Campbell guest reports from Israel; Dr. Seheult on dexamethasoneoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2020
COVID19 update, June 22, 2020: Is the virus weakening from a “tiger” to a “feral cat”?; EU taking a harder stance on Chinaoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2020
COVID19 update, June 21, 2020: Current understanding of clinical features; vitamin D finally hitting the UK mediaoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2020
COVID19 update, June 16, 2020: Blue-chip Oxford trial finds inexpensive steroid dexamethasone saves lives in severe COVID-19 cases; flare-ups in Israel and in Chinaoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2020
COVID19 update, June 14, 2020: avoiding the Three C’s of Transmission; most asymptomatic cases remain asymptomaticoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2020
COVID19 update, June 13, 2020: Belgium takes a breather; the Jewish community of Antwerp; High-fructose corn syruporiginal ↗
13 Jun 2020
12 Jun 2020
COVID19 update, June 11, 2020: vitamin D as “the low-hanging fruit of the epidemic”; deficiency statistics for Israel; first monoclonal antibody for COVID19 enters clinical trialsoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2020
COVID19 update, June 10, 2020: Interview with Norwegian public health chief; tug-of-war over testing in Israel; COVID-19 outbreak on Dutch mink farmsoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2020
COVID19 update, June 9, 2020: Matt Ridley on parallels with the 1890 flu epidemic; 57% infected in Bergamo, Italy; corroboration of different susceptibilities between blood groupsoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2020
COVID19 update, June 8, 2020: timeline pushed back to October 2019?; leaked German Interior Ministry internal report; hydroxychloroquine prophylactic use studyoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2020
COVID19 update, June 7, 2020: Do-it-yourself COVID-19 tests found to be more accurate as well as comfortable; Israeli study confirms protective effect of smoking?!; “half of colleges may close in the next 5-10 years”original ↗
7 Jun 2020
COVID 19 update, June 5, 2020: ex-MI6 chief drops bombshell; “chaos disguised as strategy”; Trump admin selects shortlist of five vaccine candidatesoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2020
COVID19 update, June 4, 2020: is the virus a picky eater; co-authors of influential Lancet hydroxychloroquine study retract paperoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2020
COVID19 update June 3, 2020: serological study in Israel; Surgisphere data scandal [UPDATED]original ↗
3 Jun 2020
COVID19 update, June 1, 2020: Sweden’s “road alone” and elderly care; avoiding lockdowns in a new flare-up; not even Stanford immune from cuts and layoffsoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2020
COVID19 update, May 31, 2020: which patients benefit most from Remdesivir; asymptomatic infection rate; the post-lockdown economy; miscellaneous updatesoriginal ↗
31 May 2020
COVID19 update, Shavuot edition: Singapore research finds 50% of sample has pre-existing immunityoriginal ↗
29 May 2020
COVID19 update, May 28, 2020: ACE inhibitors beneficial; asymptomatic infection rate as high as 80%; NYT on California economy in freefalloriginal ↗
28 May 2020
COVID19 update, May 27, 2020: Norwegian official report now questions necessity of lockdown; Dr. John Campbell on The Lancet hydroxychloroquine studyoriginal ↗
27 May 2020
COVID19 update, May 26, 2020: Sweden revisited; homes for the elderly; new drug on the blockoriginal ↗
26 May 2020
COVID19 update, US Memorial Day edition: meat-packing plants as hotspots around the world; Japan lifts state of emergency; Philippines in longest lockdown anywhere; Robert A. Heinlein for Memorial Dayoriginal ↗
25 May 2020
COVID19 update, May 24, 2020: vaccine trails hampered by dwindling infections; phases in clinical trials; miscellaneous updatesoriginal ↗
24 May 2020
COVID19 update, May 23, 2020: CDC dramatically revises fatality rates downward; important new immunity data and “cross-reactivity”original ↗
23 May 2020
COVID19 update, May 22, 2020: the human immune system; unlocked but the sky isn’t falling; professional courtesy; remdesivir study updateoriginal ↗
22 May 2020
COVID19 update, March 21, 2020: Dr. Matt Shelton on vitamin D; Harvard historian Niall Ferguson on how the pandemic exposed the “dysfunctional administrative state”; 2005 CDC paper touting chloroquine for SARSoriginal ↗
21 May 2020
COVID19 update, May 20, 2020: reinfection unlikely; correlation between HbA1C and vulnerability to severe disease; German RKI recommendations on masksoriginal ↗
20 May 2020
COVID19 update, May 19, 2020: scaling up drug production; super-spreading events; reopening churches and synagogues; Matt Ridley on vitamin Doriginal ↗
19 May 2020
COVID19 update, May 18, 2020: preliminary human vaccine trial results; new BCG study rules out COVID protective effect; the Swedish road alone; more YouTube censorshiporiginal ↗
18 May 2020
COVID19 update, May 17, 2020: Exposé on decision making timeline in Germany; YouTube censorship asininity of the dayoriginal ↗
17 May 2020
COVID19 update, May 16, 2020: evidence hydroxychloroquine works better with zinc added; how Taiwan succeeded; Niall Ferguson on his disgraced namesakeoriginal ↗
16 May 2020
COVID19 update, May 15, 2020: interview about German meat processing plants; Santa Clara County immunology study reduxoriginal ↗
15 May 2020
14 May 2020
COVID19 update, May 13, 2020: more on Vitamin D and on N-acetylcysteine (NAC); Kawasaki disease; “corona poverty” in Belgiumoriginal ↗
13 May 2020
COVID19, Lag Ba-Omer edition: active cases graphs around (mostly) Europe; more sophisticated model predicts much smaller herd immunity thresholds; Swedish healthcare problems; N-acetylcysteineoriginal ↗
12 May 2020
COVID19 update, May 11, 2020: hydroxychloroquine bummer; breakthrough in understanding of the severe diseaseoriginal ↗
11 May 2020
COVID19 update, May 10, 2020: more on COVID19 outbreaks at German meat processing plants; BND drops bombshell about China and WHO; miscellaneous updatesoriginal ↗
10 May 2020
COVID19 update, May 9, 2020: Spreading reconsidered; German pathologist and Swiss doctors identify thrombosis as #1 killer in severe COVID19, Swiss clinical trial with aggressive anticoagulation treatment; meat supply chain disruptions in Germanyoriginal ↗
9 May 2020
COVID19 update, VE-Day 2020 edition: software engineer on simulation code; what exactly does “peer-reviewed” mean?original ↗
8 May 2020
COVID19 update, May 7, 2020: risk of severe case presentation increases with age too; meat processing plants; fraying lockdowns; Georgia (the country)original ↗
7 May 2020
COVID19 update, May 6, 2020: Dr. Hansen on what we learn from autopsies of COVID19 patients; infection fatality rate; Neil Ferguson’s downfalloriginal ↗
6 May 2020
COVID19 update, May 5, 2020 edition: protective effect of MMR vaccination? strokes, vitamin D; ACE inhibitors and ARBsoriginal ↗
5 May 2020
COVID19 update, May 4, 2020: French evidence that epidemic got to Europe in December; intriguing hydroxychloroquine find; Michael Levitt intervieworiginal ↗
4 May 2020
COVID19 update, May 3, 2020: Medical bureaucrats vs. frontline medicine; Israel vs. Belgium; agriculture turns away from globalized agribusiness and toward local marketoriginal ↗
3 May 2020
COVID19 update, May 2, 2020 edition: Remdesivir gets FDA approval; detailed German statisticsoriginal ↗
2 May 2020
COVID19 update, May Day edition: reduced contagion of and from children; reopening schools in Israel; miscellaneous updatesoriginal ↗
1 May 2020
COVID19 update, April 30, 2020: Remdesivir clinical trial; South Korea stats redux; miscellaneous updatesoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2020
COVID19 update, Yom HaAtzma’ut edition: “Coronahotels” for mild cases in Israel; pathology professor discusses what can be learned about COVID19 from autopsiesoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2020
COVID19 update, April 28, 2020: drug repurposing; perverse incentives; Neil Ferguson now sees further lockdowns as impracticaloriginal ↗
28 Apr 2020
COVID19 update, April 27, 2020: Israel and Europe progress; worrisome signs in the US food supply chain; Bastiat and “non-urgent” healthcareoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2020
COVID19 update, April 26, 2020: NYC vs. rest of USA; super-spreader events analyzed; reopening non-emergency care; cyclic lockdownsoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2020
COVID19 update, April 24, 2020: Belgium reopening May 4, Israel reopens “phase 1.5”, NYC immunity testing, nicotineoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2020
COVID19 update, April 23, 2020: community immunity testing results from Belgium; non-COVID19 hospital care; Indiaoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2020
COVID19 update, April 22, 2020: the two faces of the disease, as explained by a pulmonologist; IL-6 and estrogen explaining gender differences?original ↗
22 Apr 2020
COVID19 update, April 21, 2020: Colchicine; more on COVID19-related pneumonia and “stealth hypoxia”; community testing in Los Angeles; Belgium as seen from Germanyoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2020
COVID19 update, April 20, 2020: sensitivity to sunshine and humidity strongly suggests seasonalityoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020
COVID19 update, April 18, 2020: community testing in Silicon Valley reveals huge “stealth infection numbers” — or does it?original ↗
18 Apr 2020
COVID19 update, April 17, 2020: Breaking (good) news about remdesivir; ventilators questioned again. UPDATE: UV-C irradiation as an antisepsis techniqueoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2020
COVID19 update, April 16, 2020: Germany’s exit roadmap; brief Belgium update; UPDATE: Switzerland’s time tableoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2020
COVID19, April 15, 2020 update: Cytokine storm — the immune system “killing the patient in order to save him/her”original ↗
15 Apr 2020
COVID19 update, April 14, 2020: vitamin D, zinc, testing; end of globalization as we know it?original ↗
14 Apr 2020
13 Apr 2020
COVID19 update, April 11, 2020: (1) how much of the COVID19 iceberg is below the waterline? (2) Miscellaneous updatesoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2020
COVID19 update, April 7, 2020: hemoglobin, COVID19, and hydroxychloroquine; miscellaneous updatesoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2020
COVID19 update, April 6, 2020: BREAKING: Austrian Chancellor announces “back to normal” schedule; how is the rest of Europe doing? (UPDATED)original ↗
6 Apr 2020
COVID19 update in brief, April 2, 2020: (1) Belgium followup; (2) German RKI recommends masks for everyone, Israel mandates them in publicoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2020
30 Mar 2020
29 Mar 2020
COVID19 update, March 27, 2020: (1) how long does the virus survive on surfaces? (2) more anecdata about remdesiviroriginal ↗
27 Mar 2020
COVID19 update March 24, 2020: (1) anosmia as an early warning sign? (2) Italy vs. Germany redux.original ↗
24 Mar 2020
Stay-at-home reading promotion: all my ebooks free on Kindle, Wednesday March 25 through Sunday March 29original ↗
24 Mar 2020
22 Mar 2020
21 Mar 2020