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Finding the signal in the noise of Covid-19
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Reporting and balanced evaluation of research results, data sets, applications and models, and commentaries related to Covid-19 and its underlying virus, SARS-Cov-2
Kirsch, et al. have published a preprint providing commentary on a J AMA paper that compared death rates after hospitalization for...
This is a good question I see many ask. Some conclude from this question that vaccines must have been completely ineffective, or perhaps...
Healthy vaccinee effect (HVE) has become frequent topic of discussion these days. I am glad to see this, as I have been talking about...
I have a paper soon to appear in American Journal of Epidemiology on this topic, but today I gave a talk on this topic for a group of...
Many people are interesting in looking at excess deaths these days, and for the past 10 months I've seen numerous people in social media...
An anonymous, apparently very experienced and prolific analytical systems modeler who is heavily followed on twitter, @EthicalSkeptic,...
There is a great deal of interest in assessing the individual and population-level effects of vaccination on various outcomes during the...
Introduction In winter and spring 2021, hope was high that mRNA vaccines were going to be able to bring herd immunity and end the...
This week Pfizer released a new stack of documents related to the Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, with >80,000 pages of material released. ...
Peter McCullough & colleagues have just published a paper in Food and Chemical Toxicology that posits biological mechanisms underlying...
Myocarditis has been validated as a minority harm risk of mRNA vaccination. This risk was discovered early in 2021, and was added to the...
I have collaborated with a research team at PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) along with University of Pennsylvania...
I have seen numerous people claim that the placebo-controlled, phase 3 vaccine trials that used symptomatic infections as the primary...
The UK Office of National Statistics (ONS) has released all-cause death data for England split out by age and vaccination groups. Its...
Biological researchers in Switzerland released a preprint in late December providing very useful information about the immune escape...
Summary of Key points: The UK ONS posted data on all COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 deaths in England from Jan1 through Oct31, 2021, split out...
Alex Berenson is again misinterpreting/misrepresenting scientific data, this time saying this JAMA study shows vaccines “don’t stop Covid...
Here I am pulling out an Appendix to a recent blog post that responds to Steve Kirsch's substack post he wrote in response to that blog...
Back in October, I write a blog post responding to the lawyer Renz's "whistleblower report" claiming that The USA government's Center for...
Last Friday gave a covid webinar at Texas A&M discussing various issues in the pandemic in which quantitative nuances have confused...