Dr George Christos

covid19 & other Infectious diseases

Tag: RATs

  • Everything you need to know about the MonkeyPox virus right now.

    Everything you need to know about the MonkeyPox virus right now.

    Monkeypox is a viral disease that occurs mostly in central and western Africa. It is called monkeypox because it was first identified in laboratory monkeys, while studying the effect of smallpox and smallpox vaccines on monkeys. Transmission of monkeypox virus occurs when a person comes into contact with the virus from an animal, human, or materials contaminated with the…

  • Rapid Antigen Tests are Useless

    Rapid Antigen Tests are Useless

    I was trying to make sense of this paper I reference below. My conclusion was that the RAT is 37% more accurate on average compared to a random 50/50 result for Omicron. That does not sound too great to me. A big drop from the delta variant. Why are we even using this crap? The…