Category: SARS-CoV-2
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Trolling and Gloating
I got a notification that someone on Twitter liked a statement by a rival in a troll-flame war. So I reviewed my tweets from mid-July, 2020. As I write this, in mid-September, 2020, I feel like saying “told you so.”
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SARS-CoV-2 on a Fishing Boat, Seroprevalence in Spain
This first paper is exciting, because it’s about people working on a fishing boat, and being exposed to COVID-19. No, they were not forced onto a boat and exposed to it. They are just testing people going onto these boats, and when they all test negative, they embark. If an unfortunate person was incubating the…
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That “A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers” Article the Anti-Mask People are Passing Around, and Getting it Wrong
Sometime around July 8 to 11, this article made the rounds. It is an article that just won’t vanish, and as it’s passed around, the claims about it get more extreme. They completely misread the paper, which does not compare cloth masks to “no masks”. They compare medical masks and cloth masks to standard practice,…
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
I try to delete posts regularly, and archive some in posts to my own blogs. I know this is destroying the archival aspects of replies, and I guess that sucks, but… I feel like it must be done.
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Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
I delete my Facebook posts occasionally, and archive selected posts. I lose the comments, unfortunately.
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Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
I delete my Facebook posts occasionally, and archive selected posts. I lose the comments, unfortunately.
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Selected Facebook Posts from March 2020
These are posts from March 2020. I remove posts from Facebook periodically. To preserve the old posts, I copy some of them to this blog.
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SARS-CoV-2 in the Air
Three recent articles about reducing the risks of airborne transmission of COVID-19. The Risks, Know Them, Avoid Them by Erin Bromage Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection for prevention of COVID-19 by MacIntyre and Wang Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks by Leung et. al. An analysis of three…
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COVID-19 Hits Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities the Hardest; this Paper Has Lessons for All of Us
Please read p.134, “COVID-19 HITS NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITIES THE HARDEST“ This paper isolates a population comprising several ethnic groups, called Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI), in the US, that are urban, working class, low income, and have many comorbidities, like diabetes, obesity, HBP, asthma, and cancer that make COVID-19 worse. They…
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Trump, Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, Quercetin, ECGC Catechins, AYCE KBBQ
I’m not a doctor or scientist, nor am I a right-winger conspiracy person or any of that noise. I’m just putting this out there to help people search for some info.