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03 Jan 2021

Vaccine troubles

Earlier attempts at making vaccines for corona virusses seemed to have failed, since the vaccination made things worse uppon challenging:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335060/?fbclid=IwAR3MwuDPVSxxNGjaCafSZAQQ0eHLj-bT258y7oJLJn54J8EBQ3egCHsuds0

Risk for ADE is significant, based on eperiences with earlier Corona-vaccines:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33113270/

For extra explanation on how the immunesystem can overreact to an infection:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7097326/

Tags: vaccine covid-19 coronavirus corona
23 Dec 2020

Criticism of Lockdowns

https://www.aier.org/article/lockdowns-do-not-control-the-coronavirus-the-evidence/

Tags: corona lockdown
20 Dec 2020

The British mutation story

There seems to be nothing that works against the spread of the corona virus. But a lot of data can be collected:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.14.422555v2.full

And an interesting thing is found:

https://www.gisaid.org/references/gisaid-in-the-news/uk-reports-new-variant-termed-vui-20201201/

So there is a variant that got more common in parts of the UK. "[A]ssociated with where we are seeing increasing rates of covid-19" - Nick Loman:

https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4857

All kinds of "maybe" conclusions can be drawn from it:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/14/how-a-new-covid-strain-may-have-spread-virus-in-south-of-england

And another scare is born. The only solution is for people to get tired of it.

Some criticism of the scare:

https://summit.news/2020/12/21/scientists-mps-ask-where-is-evidence-of-70-more-contagious-mutant-covid/

Tags: corona
19 Dec 2020

False positives in PCR test

The WHO gave a recommendation to use the PCR test differently. It is not enough for a diagnosis, and using it as such might result in lots of false positives.

https://www.who.int/news/item/14-12-2020-who-information-notice-for-ivd-users

The gist is:

Consider any positive result (SARS-CoV-2 detected) or negative results (SARS-CoV-2 not detected) in combination with specimen type, clinical observations, patient history, and epidemiological information.

Tags: pcr false positive corona
19 Dec 2020

Trip from Poland to Tilburg

The trip was quite short, it took only 11:20. When buying gasoline in Poland, I paid in €, which added about 8% to the price.

We took the dog Dedo, and the car was as full as an egg. Germany was easy, we took gasoline in an automatic Tankstelle. And breaks at Rastplatzer with toilets.

Tags: germany tilburg
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