How sewage tests could save us from COVID-19
Human body waste could prove to be an extremely useful ‘leading indicator’, Yale study finds
Ontario and Germany’s simple alternative to the R number
Link the lifting of lockdown measures to the number of infections per 100,000 population
Are young people more likely to catch COVID?
Young people tend to indulge in the highest amount of social mixing
Stanford study suggests coronavirus might not be as deadly as flu
All their estimates for IFR are markedly lower than the figures thrown about a couple of months ago
Will a vaccine really be ready by September?
Things work differently in a crisis. There is a desperation to get things done
Could having a cold protect against COVID?
Immunity from other influenza viruses helped protect the population during the outbreak of swine flu
No evidence of children passing on COVID-19 to relatives, says Icelandic study
The study’s outcome appears to indicate that reopening schools would be safe
How will Britain decide which lockdown measures to lift first?
It is extremely difficult to separate out the effects of various different measures
Israel has an antibody breakthrough
But will it be enough to defeat the disease?
Have we been fighting a very different disease to China?
New research on mutations of the virus suggests so
Coronavirus reinfection fears appear to be unfounded
It seems that the 263 South Korean patients had not been reinfected at all
Could Remdesivir eliminate the need for a coronavirus vaccine?
Gilead is aware of ‘positive’ results from a trial of the drug by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
How New Zealand won its fight with coronavirus
Jacinda Ardern has been the first national leader brave enough to use the word ‘eliminated’
Could this antibody test offer Britain a route out of lockdown?
Over the next few days, testing kits are being sent to 20,000 randomly-selected households
Massachusetts study finds a third of sample have COVID-19 antibodies
Several studies suggest that COVID-19 is far more prevalent — and correspondingly less deadly — than has been widely assumed
Will Sweden’s social distancing-lite work?
Epidemiologists are themselves deeply divided on how to handle coronavirus
Stanford study suggests coronavirus is more widespread than realized
If SARS-Cov-2 is already endemic in the population, there is nothing we can do to stop it — but no great reason to try to stop it, either
What a leaked Homeland Security report tells us about coronavirus
Could COVID be more prevalent — but less deadly — than we initially thought?
The cashless lobby is cashing in on the COVID-19 crisis
What does evidence matter when you have a multi-million payments industry to promote?
COVID antibody test in German town shows 15 percent infection rate
Scientists randomly sampled 1,000 people in Gangelt
Coronavirus is straining an already fractured EU
The EU is splitting between a group of ‘giving’ countries in the north and less successful ‘receiving’ countries in the south
Is Germany treating its coronavirus patients differently?
One German doctor has described his astonishment at the extent to which ventilators have been used to treat patients in Italy
How many people have COVID-19 and don’t even know it?
We know that the cases which are being recorded are only the tip of an iceberg
Spain and Italy have been abandoned by the EU
‘If what you’re waiting for is coronabonds, they’re never going to arrive’
What if half the UK population already has coronavirus?
An Italian study published yesterday suggests that between 50 percent and 75 percent of those infected show no symptoms
