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Florida reported 3,255 new cases and 147 deaths today. I had to check carefully to be sure this was a new report, not a copy of an old one. At some point I will have to stop these daily reports. What I feel I must say is that no one should consider thousands of daily cases and hundreds of...

Remember Russia's Sputnik V vaccine? Summary data for phase I and II testing were published in The Lancet. Now other researchers have published an open letter to those authors, also referenced in Nature. Some of the questions they ask are fairly standard, but I'm bothered by the finding of...

Florida reported 2,355 new cases and 157 new deaths today. Because we have 162 non-resident deaths our total is already over 13,100 dead. If cases are really going down, we should be seeing fewer deaths two months after the peak in case numbers. One problem is that some deaths which took place...

Florida is back to typical pandemic numbers, 3,116 new cases and 145 deaths today.

There seems to be growing awareness that some COVID-19 patients do not respond well to exercise. Here's an article in WIRED. In patients with severe COVID-19 there is some reason to look for myocarditis, while others find reason to deny this. I need to caution those on this forum that by...

Florida continued the weekend dip in reporting with 1,736 new cases and 34 deaths. This is being hailed as turning a corner on the pandemic. For comparison, I'd like to point out that Victoria, Australia (pop. 6.5 million) had 41 new cases and zero deaths. That is what real epidemic control...

Just a comment about Ab8. Even if this does not provide long-term immunity, it could still be effective in stopping outbreaks, which is an important part of epidemic control. While this has not undergone any testing in humans, it has been tested against a library of human proteins, and it bound...

A tiny monoclonal antibody blocks SARS-CoV-2 in animal models. A journal preproof is available. This is not a normal complete human antibody, only one particular domain from the variable heavy chain. The mention of a tiny antibody naturally makes me think of the nanobodies that occur in...

Florida went through its usual weekend dip with 2,423 new cases and 8 reported deaths. My best guess at an R value for the entire state remains above 1.0, meaning case numbers are growing slowly. For comparison I checked on the U.K.'s official R numbers. Most regions are most likely above 1.0...

Florida reported another 3,190 cases and *only* 98 deaths today. The positivity rate I'm using remains close to 13%, which is not an indication the pandemic is going away. I still don't know where the DoH gets their numbers. The value of Rt is again above 1.0 at 1.02. This is not what I would...

Florida DoH reported 3,650 new cases today, and 176 deaths. For the last week we've been running over 100 deaths per day, and 2,699 new cases per day. This is not what I would call the end of the problem. Naturally, the state government has gone to court to stop local schools from releasing data...

I was looking for a reference to gastrointestinal infection separate from respiratory infection. By chance I found one which also says those infected may not exhibit symptoms. Some patients show the virus in stool samples after the respiratory infection is cleared. I wouldn't discount such...

Central Florida now has a glimpse of the problem of containing the virus in schools. While relatively few students have been infected, enough have been exposed to force closing a few schools. At this point community spread is so common that I don't expect the path by which these students were...

I'm going to try to link this article in the Washington Post about covid-19 cases in Florida schools, because it showed up in the coronavirus section, which should be free. I'm seeing a pattern here, of the initial official response being to suppress information. I've already heard about some...

In the U.S. COVID-19 is currently the 3rd most common cause of death after heart disease and cancer. This is a very large public health problem. As for data on long-term outcomes, that is largely lacking, medical professionals are way too busy coping with acute disease. Those I have...

I've been looking for material on the decline in testing which is not overtly political. This is hard because everything has become political this year. I've said I found inconsistency in official numbers, but I'm not ready to make detailed criticisms. I can point to Florida businesses and...

You need to quantify that by population. Florida is bragging about getting new cases below 3,000 per day, with less than 1/3 your population. Sunday we had 2,564 new cases, and *only* 38 deaths of residents. (You need to keep in mind that statistics all over the world show a dip on weekends...

The assumption that results of covid-19 infection are binary, recover or die, has bothered me from day one. A recent blip in the news illustrates how politics, financial interests and possible liability complicate discussion and research on the subject of covid-19 sequelae. CNN aired an...

I'm aware of the possibility of detecting viral fragments which are not infective. The most likely source for these is an active infection in a part of the body that is hard to sample. We already have examples of active individual infections which last for months. Another problem is that when...

I suspect that I would largely agree with Jonathan Edwards post above, but I haven't read that article. I was busy reading other things, and I only have one pair of eyes. I'm not going to get into a flame war if I can help it. If the author is arguing for a distinction between case mortality...