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How many older people have died from C19? Last time I heard, it was a bit more than 29. By the way, according to the SS actuarial tables, an 80 year old has a probability of 0.0582 of dying within one year. It would presumably be higher for someone that age in a nursing home. If 42,000 people...

I don't know what your one country is, but for the U.S., the rate is very similar, about 5.3% of cases, or 0.36% of the population. The total is more than 1.2 million now, The data are hard to find. Most states report hospitalizations, but about a dozen of them don't report cumulative totals.

So 1/3 of the subjects get a placebo? It was 50% in the Pfizer trials. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577 I assume that patients don't know what they're getting. But can't you tell from the side effects? If the placebo is just saline, the body is not going to react in the same...

About two dozen NH patients in Norway died after being vaccinated with Pfizer. The question is whether this many people out of a large group, 40,000, I think, would have died from that population over that time period, anyway. As has been noted before, when you vaccinate a very large number of...

https://www.insidehook.com/article/health-and-fitness/roger-federer-peloton

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/11/asia/china-wuhan-covid-consequence-intl-hnk/index.html

Another area the U.S. lags in: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/10/health/old-coronavirus-sequences/index.html

Totally false, as was thoroughly discussed earlier on this thread. Of all the pandemic myths that have circulated in the press, this is the one probably most widely accepted by liberals as well as conservatives, while also, ironically, one of the most easily rebutted by science. Another grim...

It really has. Just compare the police and NG response last night to that for any BLM protest, or for Trump's phony Bible outside the church stunt. Or the proportion of BLM protesters who supported looting of stores and burning of buildings with the proportion of last night's protesters who...

Upthread, I pointed out that masks are likely to increase crime, because they make it possible to hide your identity without being suspicious. A lot of those protesters who broke into the Capitol Building are going to get prosecuted, because they were either too stupid, or too full of phony...

Moe than 4000 deaths in the U.S. today, first time that number has been reached. This corresponds to the peak/top of plateau in daily cases I mentioned upthread, which occurred about a week before Christmas. Also, > 260,000 cases, another record. That is probably from a surge from New Year...

One positive outcome of the current riots in D.C. is that members of Congress who have previously been against wearing masks are now embracing them--gas masks, that is. Hope their freedom isn't infringed too much. But riots tend to infringe on some people's freedom. i could in fact cite some...

This is a very long article exploring the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab in Wuhan. The author cites, but does not really discuss, the seminal Nature Med paper that concluded that the virus was not intentionally designed in a lab. He instead emphasizes the interest of some...

Very good news. I was going to ask you why they hadn't done a biopsy.