October 19, 2020 Epidemiology Sweden’s government decides to (partially) reverse course on their public health approach to the pandemic.
October 16, 2020 Epidemiology The Swedish COVID-19 response: The Devil is in the details. A devastating review of how this is not the model for the rest of the world.
October 15, 2020 Epidemiology The story is not who signed the Barrington Declaration but that its ideas are unsupported by scientific evidence. Deliberately and purposefully employing SARS-CoV-2 as your vector to achieve herd immunity presents many dangers and unintended consequences.
October 14, 2020 Allergy/Immunology It is too soon to draw any conclusions about short/long term immunity based on COVID-19 antibody levels. Many unknown factors remain. Time should help with the answers in future studies.
October 13, 2020 Health Headlines Lack of contact tracing data limits ability to set appropriate targeted public health policy.
October 9, 2020 Epidemiology Superspreader events + no masks + no physical distancing + poor contact tracing = well, what do you think will happen? Same answer for every country that used this equation.
October 8, 2020 Epidemiology Dr. Tam’s citing increasing numbers of confirmed COVID cases also requires the denominator of total tests done. Use absolute instead of relative percentage changes. Be consistent with methodology or risk erosion of the public’s trust.
October 7, 2020 Science and Media Reporting If you are the WHO boss suggesting that a COVID vaccine MAY be available by the end of the year, provide the evidence to justify the hope, else be prepared for another journey into the nadir of credibility and subsequent irrelevance if you are wrong.
October 6, 2020 Health Policy Would you allow anyone who is being treated for COVID-19 and remains infectious to come to your workplace or home? In addition, when they do show up, they take off their mask. I leave it to you to come to your own conclusions.
October 5, 2020 Molecular Medicine Logistics of distributing mRNA vaccines (if approved) will be problematic. Excellent article in @TheAtlantic explains why.
