My interview with Kate Dalley, November 12, 2021

Various interviewees estimated the that the coronavirus tests they are familiar with are 75%, 85% or 100% accurate: Demetre Daskalakis, deputy commissioner for the division of disease control of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, said he recently told a patient with mild symptoms who sought a test and received a negative result…

A few short months ago, Emergent Biosolutions was riding high.  Their stock was at $125/share.  They were a $7 billion dollar company.  They were the epitome of how to turn failure into success: never bringing a product they created to market   selling almost exclusively to the government;  selling single-source products, which meant no-bid contracts;  making…

https://www.ad.nl/dossier-coronavirus/40-a-50-nederlandse-coronapatienten-op-intensive-cares-meer-dan-de-helft-is-onder-de-vijftig~a058aad2/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialsharing_web Today there are between forty and fifty corona patients in critical condition on Dutch intensive care units. “More than half of those patients are under fifty years old. There are also young people. “” That says chairman of the Dutch Association for Intensive Care (NVIC) Diederik Gommers, in an interview with this site.  Marcia Nieuwenhuis 03/14/20, 9:23…

While we cannot rely on the Covid statistics that are being provided, still, new numbers for cases and deaths in military servicemembers were released yesterday that are worth a mention.   Total cumulative diagnosed cases in active and reserve servicemembers “nears 59,000.”  Yet only nine servicemembers have died:  3 National Guard, 5 Reservists and 1 on…

Very nice summary article by Helen Branswell regarding assumptions scientists have made about influenza, and how many of these assumptions have had to be discarded, as swine influenza furnished plenty of surprising facts.