New CDC guidance and Sputnik looking good
Improve How Your Mask Protects You CDC, 10th Feb https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/effective-masks.html Link to PlasticFull (Stefan) Tweets by PlasticFull April, Open season…
Vitamin D, blood levels
Vitamin D tests used in this video Your personalised vitamins Home Single test, £39.99 Year plan, 2 tests and vitamin…
Spain, convincing therapeutic evidence
Effect of calcifediol treatment and best available therapy versus best available therapy on intensive care unit admission and mortality among…
Transatlantic update and personal experience
United States Cases, + 102,004 = 27,229.862 Dearth, +3,589 = 474,423 (0.14% of population) Hospitalizations, 69,283 (14,369, 4,643) Vaccine doses…
Reinfection with South African variant
Severe reinfection with South African SARS-CoV-2 variant 501Y.V2: A case report https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab129/6132402 Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases, 10 February 2021…
High disabled and LD deaths
US Storms Federal vaccination centres open Doses given, 55,792,000 Second dose, 15,192,000 (4.65%) Hospitalizations, 64,535 Past 7 days https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/coronavirus-us-cases-deaths/?itid=sf_coronavirus New…
Human Challenge studies
COVID-19 Human Challenge studies https://www.gov.uk/government/news/worlds-first-coronavirus-human-challenge-study-receives-ethics-approval-in-the-uk https://ukcovidchallenge.com/covid-19-volunteer-trials/ Specially convened Research Ethics Committee Convened by the HRA; it was not deemed by…
One vaccine dose and two viral variants
Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577 NEJM, (December 31st) A two-dose regimen of BNT162b2 conferred 94.8%…