Mackenzie L-T·Apr 30Epidemiology: A Flawed yet Crucial ScienceBy Mac Lesher-Thomas — By Mac Lesher-Thomas We all have definitely heard of epidemiology thanks to the infamous Covid-19 pandemic ravaging the United States for about 2 years. Epidemiology is “the branch of medicine which deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health” according to the…Epidemiology3 min read
F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE·Apr 20Wait, What? Antidepressants Don’t Increase Quality of Life?A new study forces us to ask what antidepressants are actually doing. — A new study forces us to ask what antidepressants are actually doing. Every year in the US, more than 40 million adults receive a prescription for an anti-depressant. That’s 15% of the adult population. In the pandemic era, that number is even higher. Despite a small, and vocal group of physicians who argue that anti-depressants are not effective, the empiric data is…Depression5 min read
姜冠宇醫師✍整合手記·Apr 16BA.2變異株，香港流行病學數據香港近期疫情有下降，也開始放寬活動場所，但是這一次的香港疫情震盪是受到全球專家關注的，這一次是為第五波疫情，主要流行株是 BA.2，在 2022 年初的三個月內已在香港造成超過 110 萬例確診病例（總人口為 740 萬），是整整前兩年四波流行所有確診病例的 100 倍 。 — 香港近期疫情有下降，也開始放寬活動場所，但是這一次的香港疫情震盪是受到全球專家關注的，這一次是為第五波疫情，主要流行株是 BA.2，在 2022 年初的三個月內已在香港造成超過 110 萬例確診病例（總人口為 740 萬），是整整前兩年四波流行所有確診病例的 100 倍 。 對 BA.2 流行病學的預印本已經發布： Epidemiology of infections with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2 variant in Hong Kong, January-March 2022 Hong Kong reported 12,631 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 213 deaths in the first two years of the pandemic but…www.medrxiv.orgCovid 195 min read
Tam Hunt·Apr 16Shanghai’s 99.9% false positive rate shows China’s lockdowns are unnecessary and constitute human rights abuseChina’s mass Covid-19 testing programs are guaranteed to result in a vast majority of false positives and yet these are reported as… — China’s mass Covid-19 testing programs are guaranteed to result in a vast majority of false positives and yet these are reported as “cases,” justifying lockdowns of 26% of China’s population and untold suffering China has fully locked down its largest city, Shanghai, with a population of almost 26 million people…Shanghai4 min read
A. S. DellerinPredict·Apr 15The Challenge of Animal STDsSexually transmitted disease is taking more animals to the brink of extinction than you might imagine. — Prior to the horrible outbreak of bushfires that began in September of 2019 in Australia — the worst bushfire season on record — koalas were facing another kind of outbreak that was already threatening them with extinction. On May 6, 2018, John Oliver announced on his “Last Week Tonight” HBO…Animals4 min read
Thiagonunestm·Apr 8A importância da análise epidemiológica da COVID-19Por: Professor Thiago Nunes Para acessar a análise completa, acesse o meu repositório no GitHub — Por: Professor Thiago Nunes Para acessar a análise completa, acesse o meu repositório no GitHub A Covid-19, doença causada pelo vírus SARS-CoV-2, surgiu em 2019 e rapidamente se tornou uma pandemia com números impressionantes de casos e mortes. Nos últimos meses, a luta do Brasil contra a Covid-19 criou vários…Covid 197 min read
Giuseppe Borghese III·Apr 5The Pandemic — Still — Isn’t OverI hate to be the one to tell us all this (no, I really wish I had almost any other news), but the pandemic is still raging on. — I hate to be the one to tell us all this (no, I really wish I had almost any other news), but the pandemic is still raging on. “Nunh unh,” says everyone, “Omicron is mild, and anyway, there are hardly any cases anymore.” It’s true, there are hardly any cases…Covid 192 min read
Joel Bamfo-AppiahinAIMS Community Digest·Mar 25#AlumoftheWeek — Oluwayomi Akinfenwa, AIMS Ghana ‘21As we bring our women’s month campaign to a close, this weeks’ #AlumoftheWeek — is a story of a young lady who found herself in… — As we bring our women’s month campaign to a close, this weeks’ #AlumoftheWeek — is a story of a young lady who found herself in Mathematics. Her desire and passion were to pursue nursing as a teenager. She later became comfortable with this new field because the area of mathematics…Epidemiology5 min read
A. S. DellerinPredict·Mar 233 Harsh Truths About COVID-19The novel coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold and we continue to unravel. — 2020: The Year We Locked Down A new pandemic was going to happen, given time. There was really nothing we could have done to prevent it. A terrible virus or bacterium could have emerged from any number of places. The taiga of northern Asia and the glaciers of Greenland are melting away at an accelerating rate…Covid 197 min read
F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCEinElemental·Mar 8Chances Are, You Had Toxic Lead Levels as a KidThe startling data comes from a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — I have always been darkly fascinated by lead. As a nephrologist, I would occasionally come across a case of what we still call saturnine gout — gout due to lead toxicity — in the occasional moonshiner, a result of distilling alcohol in old, lead-lined car radiators. It was the Romans…Public Health5 min read
