Study Finds Coronavirus Immunity Could Be Lost In Months
A study released Saturday by King’s College London shows that people may lose their immunity to COVID-19 within months and could be susceptible to reinfection on a yearly basis.
Is Air Conditioning Contributing to Coronavirus Spread?
The headlines are screaming about recent increases in coronavirus cases, with some suggesting that the essential problem is the loosening of the lockdowns and restrictions. A number of media sources note that many of the problematic locations are “red” states with Republican leadership.
Study links abnormally high blood sugar with higher risk of death in COVID-19 patients not previously diagnosed with diabetes
DIABETOLOGIA New research from Wuhan, China shows that, in patients with COVID-19 but without a previous diagnosis of diabetes, abnormally high blood sugar is associated with more than double the risk of death and also an increased risk of severe complications. The study is by Dr Yang Jin, Union Hospital and Tongji Medical College, Huazhong…
New Paper Demonstrates Strong Efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine. Mortality rate cut in half!
This is absolutely the most conclusive research produced to date by anyone, due mostly to the quality of the approach. No one has published this quality level of work on HCQ on humans prior to this.
FDA: Deregulating during the pandemic, and beyond
The press has obsessively focused on supposed government shortfalls regarding COVID-19 testing. However, virtually no attention has been given to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) vigorous and unprecedented efforts to ease regulatory requirements during the pandemic.
Did lockdowns really save 3 million COVID-19 deaths, as Flaxman et al. claim?
Key points about the recent Nature paper by Flaxman and other Imperial College modellers
The IEA’s Sustainable Recovery Plan Is Not Sustainable
Governments of the world, take note. The International Energy Agency has a plan for you. If you take the sagely advice of the IEA’s technocrats, you will do your citizens a huge favour as you struggle to recover from the ravages of the global Covid-19 pandemic.
COVID-19: Understanding the Numbers #coronavirus
Guest post by Neil Lock As those acquainted with me will know, long ago I was trained as a mathematician. I’ve forgotten most of the specifics I learned. But I’ve retained the framework; even if it’s a bit rusty. For almost three months now, I’ve been looking at the numbers on the progress of the…
To Halt Climate Change, We Need an Ecological Leninism
From Jacobin Nothing is over the top any more. Insanity or hyperbole? You decide. Despite the obvious parallels with coronavirus shutdowns, states still show little determination to put in place the measures we’ll need to deal with the climate emergency. For Andreas Malm, we need to stop seeing climate change as a problem for the…
Oil Demand To Spike In 2021 By 5.7 Million Barrels Daily As Oil Companies Slash Production: IEA
From The Daily Caller CHRIS WHITE TECH REPORTER June 16, 202012:45 PM ET FONT SIZE:00:4002:42 Cuts in oil supply and a record rebound in demand in 2021 will help put the fossil fuel industry on better footing even as the pandemic hammers oil demand, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. Demand for oil will rebound…
COVID Censorship at ResearchGate: Facts about Face Coverings Covered Up?
Guest post by Robert Kernodle A Website that Makes Research Open to All? My title has a question mark in it, and my first heading has a question mark in it. The question mark in the title means that there might be a question about whether censorship is actually taking place, while the second question…
Protests Reveal Little Threat of COVID-19 in Outside Air: Why Is Seattle Still Restricting Park Access?
Reposted from the Cliff Mass Weather Blog Thursday, June 11, 2020 As I discussed in a previous blog, there is little evidence of transmission of COVID-19 in outside air, with a substantial and growing literature documenting the lack of risk for virtually any activity in the outside air. Empty parks in SeattleBut now, there is…
Remaking Post-Covid-19 Capitalism in the West: Lessons for the East
Reposted from Forbes By Tilak Doshi As the world emerges painfully from the lockdown cure that is likely to be far worse than the disease of Covid-19, we are now being sold yet another bill of goods. We are told from almost every quarter that the economic recovery from the pandemic-panic induced lockdowns has to…
British Public Now More Concerned About Coronavirus Than Climate Change
From The GWPF A new opinion poll commissioned by The Global Warming Policy Forum has revealed that when asked about the overall impact on humanity, the British public are now more concerned about the coronavirus pandemic than climate change. Carried out by polling company, YouGov, the results represent a massive swing in public opinion since 12thMarch,…
Climate Extremism is Dividing Democrats
From Inside Sources Posted to Energy June 08, 2020 by Teri Christoph Americans need true cooperation among their elected leaders during the coronavirus outbreak, but many left-leaning politicians are trying to use this crisis as an opportunity to pass radical climate plans. These proposals are not only unrelated to our current needs but also hurt…
COVID-19 Global Economic Downturn not Affecting CO2 Rise: May 2020 Update
Reposted from Dr. Roy Spencer’s blog June 5th, 2020 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The Mauna Loa atmospheric CO2 concentration data continue to show no reduction in the rate of rise due to the recent global economic slowdown. This demonstrates how difficult it is to reduce global CO2 emissions without causing a major disruption…
TURNER: Models Can’t Accurately Predict Next Week’s Weather, So Why Should We Trust Them To Predict Climate Change?
From The Daily Caller Daniel Turner Contributor June 01, 2020 11:34 AM ET It’s curious … SpaceX has all the money in the world, and they didn’t hire someone who could have accurately predicted the afternoon weather in Florida on May 27, 2020. Seems like a huge oversight, doesn’t it? And to think there are…
Brazilian scientists and academics write an Open Letter on the “science” of the #coronavirus pandemic
From CONEXÃPOLÍTICA The coordinator of the statement is Marcos Nogueira Eberlin. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and holds a PhD in chemistry from the University of Campinas. After postdoctoral work at Purdue, he founded the Thomson Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, growing it into a highly distinguished lab and supervising some 200…
When does government intervention make sense for COVID-19?
Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on May 29, 2020 by niclewis By Nic Lewis Introduction I showed in my last article that inhomogeneity within a population in the susceptibility and infectivity of individuals would reduce the herd immunity threshold, in my view probably very substantially, and that evidence from Stockholm County appeared…
Forecast models encounter reality
Reposted from CFACT By Kenneth Green |May 28th, 2020 Though forecast models have been a problem in the way they are utilized in public and environmental health for decades now, they have never before crested public awareness in quite the way they have in the time of COVID-19. People accustomed to seeing forecasts of things…
COVID-19 Dooms the Climate… Again! IEA: Oil Demand to Soon Exceed Pre-Lockdown Level
Alternate Title: Peak Oil Foiled Again Guest “too fracking funny for words” by David Middleton IEA chief says low oil prices will take demand beyond pre-crisis highsBy JAVIER BLAS on 5/25/2020 LONDON (Bloomberg) –Global oil consumption hasn’t peaked, the head of the International Energy Agency warned, throwing cold water on hopes the coronavirus will cap…
Prioritizing climate over pandemics
We need a full accounting of what was spent preparing for the ‘climate crisis’ versus COVID Paul Driessen As of May 20, the United States had more than 1.5 million confirmed cases of Wuhan Coronavirus. US deaths related or attributed to the virus topped 92,000 (though many were really due to old age and related…
How pandemics are linked to climate change
Video from the LA times (gag)
YouTube Defends Removing Epidemiologist’s Video On Coronavirus ‘Herd Immunity’
From The Daily Caller Scott Morefield Reporter May 19, 2020 1:43 PM ET YouTube defended its removal of a video of a prominent epidemiologist explaining his view on coronavirus and “herd immunity.” The video featured Dr. Knut Wittkowski, the former head of biostatistics, epidemiology and research design at Rockefeller University. In it, he was critical…
“No Oil Bailout Is Worth the Green New Deal”
Guest “BINGO!” by David Middleton No Oil Bailout Is Worth the Green New DealBy KEVIN D. WILLIAMSONMay 14, 2020 ‘Stop trying to help us,’ the industry says‘Oil is dead.” So goes the wishful thinking of the Left in Canada. And not just in Canada. Canada’s oil industry, like others around the world, has taken a…
AAPG Announces New Climate Change Statement
Guest “not as bad as I thought it would be” by David Middleton Over the past couple of years, the Executive Committee of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) has been working on a new position statement on climate change. The new statement was unveiled in the latest issue of the AAPG Explorer… Announcing…
Novel #Coronavirus and Climate Change: A Tale of Two Hysterias
Reposted from Forbes [Note: I received an email from the author that he had sent an earlier version and I’m replacing it with the proper version. 5/14/20 8:15 PM Pacific Time~cr] [Note 2: Another version WITH links replacing this post 5/15/20 10:45 Pacific Time~cr] By Tilak Doshi Up to a few months ago, life was…
99% of Barclay’s Shareholders Vote for Permanent COVID-19 Economy
Guest “you can’t actually vote on the Laws of Physics” by David Middleton 99% vote of support sees Barclays adopt climate resolution to be net-zero Hope William-Smith11 May 2020 A total 99% of voters at Barclays 2020 Annual General Meeting (AGM) have voted in support of a climate resolution following continued pressure from shareholders and…
Wuhan Virus Vaccines
By Rud Istvan Since respected ‘experts’ like Dr. Fauci are saying there is no return to normal until an effective vaccine is widely available, I thought I would use my hard earned infectious disease knowledge, (previously explained in Wuhan post #1) plus a day of new research to provide a WUWT synopsis of at least…
The Silver Lining to the COVID-19 Dark Cloud: People Are Getting Back Into Their Cars
Guest “the gas tank is half-full” by David Middleton. May 11, 2020 10:03 AM UPDATED 2 HOURS AGOCommuters choose cars over public transport to avoid exposure to coronavirus Javier Blas, Vanessa Dezem and Sarah ChenBloomberg LONDON, BEIJING, FRANKFURT — James Li, a public relations account director, would rather spend an hour sitting in Beijing traffic…
Why herd immunity to COVID-19 is reached much earlier than thought #coronavirus
Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on May 10, 2020 by niclewis By Nic Lewis Introduction A study published in March by the COVID-19 Response Team from Imperial College (Ferguson20[1]) appears to have been largely responsible for driving government actions in the UK and, to a fair extent, in the US and some…
Anxiety From Reactions to Covid-19 Will Destroy At Least Seven Times More Years of Life Than Can Be Saved by Lockdowns
By Andrew Glen, Ph.D. and James D. Agresti Medical studies show that excessive stress and anxiety are among the most debilitating and deadly of all health hazards in the world. Beyond their obvious effects like suicide and substance abuse—these mental stressors are strongly related to and may trigger and inflame a host of ailments like…
Using excess deaths to correct Chinese-virus mortality counts #coronavirus
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The United Kingdom now has a higher death toll than any other European country, and the second-highest in the world after the United States. Yesterday’s officially declared count was 29,427 (433 per million population), just above Italy’s 29,315 (485 per million). However, Fig. 1, from the Cabinet Office daily briefing,…
Brutal Takedown of Neil Ferguson’s Model
From Lockdown ScepticsStay sane. Protect the economy. Save livelihoods. An experienced senior software engineer, Sue Denim, has written a devastating review of Dr. Neil Ferguson’s Imperial college epidemiological model that set the world on a our current lock down course of action. She appears quite qualified. My background. I wrote software for 30 years. I worked…
Many Effects of Hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19
This is a scientific review, published to inform health care professionals and public officials, and for an open peer review. It is not medical advice. Abstract Hydroxycholoroquine (HCQ) is effective against COVID-19 in a variety of roles – the main two being antiviral and immunomodulator. This “silver bullet” effect may have caused confusion between different…
Vitamin D3 and the Chinese-virus #coronavirus
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley This column does not constitute medical advice. Check with your doctor. Many nostrums are being recommended, with varying justification, to reduce the harm from the Chinese virus. Some, like hydroxychloroquine, have side-effects and should only be taken if prescribed; others, like remdesivir, work (if at all) only during the early…
Researchers, Lawmakers Cry Foul After Harvard Quietly Edits Study Suggesting Pollution Leads To More COVID Deaths
From The Daily Caller Chris White Tech Reporter May 03, 2020 2:02 PM ET Maryland Rep. Andy Harris wants the Environmental Protection Agency to review a Harvard University study suggesting pollution could create an 8% increase in the United States’s coronavirus death rate. One top critic of the study told the Daily Caller News Foundation…
Who is at risk from the Chinese Virus? Some hard data at last #coronavirus
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley As the old saying goes, In God we trust: all others bring data. At last, we have some decent – if not yet peer-reviewed – data on who is most susceptible to the Chinese virus. A large survey of patients hospitalized with the infection has just been published. Features of…
CO2, the Chinese virus and the profiteers of doom
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley By the time you read this, the monthly Mauna Loa CO2 concentration will probably have been published. The profiteers of doom have been delighted by the global Chinese-virus lockdown, which many of them would like to be permanent. As John Christy reported here yesterday, in March the UAH dataset maintained…
Elon Musk: “Give people back their g*****n freedom.”
Guest +42×1042 to Elon Musk! The Tesla and SpaceX CEO said Wednesday such restrictions have robbed Americans of their constitutional rights. By Joseph Guzman Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk continued to voice his opposition to shelter-in-place orders imposed by some states to curb the spread of the coronavirus Wednesday, calling the restrictions “fascist.” Musk…
EPA COV-19 Environmental Justice Grant Funding
Guest post by Roger Caiazza The mission of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is to protect human health and the environment. I think most people would agree with me that the intent is to protect human health from air, water, and land environmental risks. In that light it was disconcerting to me to…
Ministerial math, scientific skepticism and the Chinese virus
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Of government ministers it may be said that they seldom know how many beans make five. Frankly, numeracy is seldom their forte. Therefore, HM Government, for instance, has pietistically proclaimed time and time again at its daily press conferences that it will act solely on the basis of what the…
Chinese virus drives a startling increase in Europe’s excess mortality #coronavirus
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The scale of the Chinese-virus pandemic is now beginning to become visible. Yesterday, the death toll of 59,000 in the United States exceeded the 58,000 in the Vietnam war. In Europe, 488,764 people died of all causes in the six weeks to mid-April, according to an analysis of data from…
Key-indicator analysis, the Chinese virus and the climate scam
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Models! Dontcha just wish your taxes didn’t have to pay for them? First there was the Imperial College model that predicted 500,000 deaths in the UK and 40 million worldwide from the Chinese virus in the absence of control measures, by the end of this year. Control measures were introduced…
The COVID Growth Curve (In Verse) #coronavirus
Guest verse by Denis Howarth On April 13, Israel’s Channel 12 television broadcast a discussion with Isaac Ben-Israel, who heads the Security Studies program at Tel Aviv University, chairs the National Council for Research and Development, and is a mathematician. Ben-Israel said that his study of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus statistics shows “a set…
Wuhan #coronavirus/CoVid-19 Rumination #7
By Rud Istvan When ctm enabled the very first of my now several guest posts on this topic, it was partly because of my explicit analogies to climate change. As we delved further in subsequent posts, the climate analogies became less obvious. #6 was all about technical CoViD-19 antibody testing specificity and thrombosis, with no…
Chinese virus on the shelf
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley As a Sunday rest from the doom and gloom about the Chinese virus, here is an ingenious photographic composition from one of Britain’s leading artists. “The English patient had caught it on the beach. I should have stayed at home she said. Now she was in quarantine in the dark…
How many die of the Chinese virus, and how many die with it? #coronavirus
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley One of the most frequently-asked questions about the Chinese virus is how many of those who die after becoming infected die of the virus, and how many merely die with it? The Office for National Statistics in the UK has now studied that question. Of the deaths occurring in March…
Data we ought to know and don’t know about the Chinese virus #coronavirus
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The ineptitude of Western governments when keeping crucial statistics about the Chinese virus is becoming culpable. For a start, they are not even counting deaths either consistently or competently. In Britain, for instance, total reported deaths to April 17, 2020, were 14,576. However, a report issued April 16 by the…
COVID-19 is a harsh teacher. Let’s learn from it.
Reposted from the Fabius Maximus Blog By Larry Kummer, Editor / 16 April 2020 Summary: COVID-19 teaches us about the propaganda and arrogance that hobble us. The cost in lives and money might be worthwhile if we learn from it and make a better America. A nation lit only by propaganda This “it’s China’s fault”…