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Victoria to end isolation rules for Covid
I wonder how long this will last? I think their hospitals will be overwhelmed. Plus covid19 is not the flu. It is killing 20 Victorians a day right now. That is 7000 people a year. We may as well relax speeding rules, seatbelts, and drinking driving too. Only a few hundred more will die on…
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Covid19 deaths in Australia are on the rise.
Don’t let the dropping of mask mandates for the election fool you. Look at this. It is much clearer if you look back 60 days. Meanwhile, Prof Paul Kelly (CMO Australia) had a brilliant idea (for him anyhow) to get covid19 deaths down to zero. Stop counting them! LOL. Lump them all into the excess…
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Australia thinks herd immunity is possible. It is not.
When Australia started to mandate the vaccine, it must have thought herd immunity was possible but it was not, and that was with the delta variant in August/ September/October 2021. I have calculated that the R naught value of delta variant is about 12.5. Here is a graph I circulated lat year. Th R naught…
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Was Denmark too hasty to declare that the coronavirus was just a flu and life was now normal again?
When Denmark’s Case Fatality Rate (CFR) dropped to 0.04% (7-day-runng average) in January 2022, the government of Denmark declared the pandemic was over. With a CFR so low, noting that the CFR for influenza is about 0.1 to 0.15%, that made reasonable sense. In early February most restrictions were subsequently lifted. It was said that…
Dr George Christos
covid19 & other Infectious diseases