Covid is Not a Specific Disease

When people say: “I had Covid,” what do they mean? They mean they had a positive test for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Very often, they had no clinical symptoms whatsoever – they “had” asymptomatic Covid.  They may have suffered from the well-known symptoms of a common cold...

A Common Sense Look at 20 million Saved Lives

    A mathematical modeling study from London’s Imperial College, recently published as a preprint in The LANCET, purports to demonstrate that the COVID vaccines saved roughly 15 to 20 million lives in 2021. The authors excluded China from their model,...

Another Look at Covid Vaccine Studies

From the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, the risk factors for severe forms and death from – or “with” – the respiratory virus called SARS-CoV-2 had been clearly identified: Advanced age, obesity, severe chronic comorbidities (other diseases, e.g. hypertension,...

A Closer look at US 2020 Mortality Data

According to the CDC, the United States of America lost 3,358,814 of its citizens in 2020, an age-adjusted increase of 15.9% compared to 2019.  For the CDC, the reason for this increase is apparently self-evident and clear : COVID-19, which “has become the third...