Content tagged covid-19
How do we know the vaccine works?
posted on 2021-12-17
In the past few months, and especially in the last weeks, I have been doing some pretty intensive research on the safety and efficacy of the Covid vaccines. I was getting a lot of questions on it from some of my friends, and I wanted to be able to give them my perspective on this as a biologist looking at the scientific literature. I've been working on a longer document looking at all sorts of issues that people bring up, but for starters I‘d like to give a quick overview of some of the studies that look at the vaccines’ efficacy. In other words: how do we know these vaccines actually work?
more...Putting the vaccinated at risk
posted on 2021-09-24
Background: A friend of mine shared a meme about Covid vaccinations with the caption: “The protected need to be protected from the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that didn't protect the unprotected.” Here is my response:
more...Tote Kinder durch Corona-Impfung?
posted on 2021-06-30
Hintergrund: Eine Bekannte teilte online die Analyse eines Biologen (Hervé Seligmann), nach der angeblich Covid-Impfungen von Erwachsenen zu einer erhöhten Mortalität bei nicht-geimpften Kindern führt. Hier schaue ich mir diese “Studie” genauer an:
more...On the effectivity of masks against Covid-19
posted on 2021-04-29
Background: A friend of mine shared a post that quoted the CDC as saying: “CDC is not aware of any randomized control trials that show that masks or double masks or cloth face coverings are effective against COVID-19.” As my response turned out a bit longer than expected, I'm archiving it here for future reference…
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