Category: Corona Virus

FACTS ABOUT COVID-19

A comprehensive analysis of medical aspect

The article begins with:

Fully referenced facts about Covid-19, provided by experts in the field, to help our readers make a realistic risk assessment. (Regular updates below)

“The only means to fight the plague is honesty.” (Albert Camus, 1947)

Read this most informative collection of expert opinions here:

https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/

I avoid politics on Project Waistline website, but this particular article has a certain leaning. I leave it up to the inquirer to look into that.

To fact check go here:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/swiss-policy-research/

And to fact check the fact-checker go to “Reception” here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Bias/Fact_Check

We are all grown-ups here, we can investigate for ourselves.

Evidence Based Medicine

How can we know what is medically true?

LEVELS OF EVIDENCE:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3124652/#!po=16.6667

DEFINITIONS

Meta analyses – examination of data from a number of independent studies of the same subject, in order to determine overall trends.

RCT – randomized controlled trial is a study in which people are allocated at random (by chance alone) to receive one of several clinical interventions. One of these interventions is the standard of comparison or control.

Cohort Study – a particular form of longitudinal study (same individuals observed over the study period) that samples a cohort (a group of people who share a defining characteristic), performing a cross-section at intervals through time.

Case–control studies are often used to identify factors that may contribute to a medical condition by comparing subjects who have that condition/disease (the “cases”) with patients who do not have the condition/disease but are otherwise similar (the “controls”).

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: Tough Questions / Tough Answers

One of the most important and honest Covid-19 interviews to date.

“The lockdown is not a mechanism for disease eradication. It will only delay when the disease happens. You pay the cost now or you pay the cost later.”

– Bhattacharya

For more information:

https://www.hoover.org/publications/uncommon-knowledge

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Personal Commentary:

In this interview (data-based, apolitical, and painfully honest) they solemnly agree that it is essential that we (carefully) come out of quarantine. They present the fact that *with* or *without* quarantine the disease will run its course. Because of the quarantine we have extended the timeline of that course. Indeed this was the entire purpose, not to overwhelm the hospitals.

Well, that issue has come and gone, and the hospitals were spared, thank God. We did such a good job that many of them are going bankrupt! (Of course that is also due to the fact that the virus is not nearly as deadly – for the healthy – as originally assumed.) Now we have to figure out what to do moving forward.

When one considers the extra trouble *general* quarantine (ie. quarantining everyone) has & will continue to cause, it makes sense to isolate the high-risk, carefully protect them (like paying healthy nursing home personnel huge bonuses to stay locked-down *inside* of the institutions) & start the job of rebuilding the global economy.

We can do this… we must.