Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Excess mortality gives a more complete picture of the death toll of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) than official daily estimates. A research letter published in JAMA estimates that between March and July 2020, there were 225,530 excess deaths in the US. If the trend continues, the US could see more than 400,000 excess deaths by the end of 2020.
Misleading Telegraph headline claims scientsts investigating covid leaking from a lab – that is not what is going on.
NYT article by SMEs points out that the CDCs new COVID-19 testing strategy is wrong, it will prolong the pandemic. States need to take action.
The latest Trump “Cure” for COVID-19 is oleandrin. Evidence that it works? None at all. If you take this, then get your affairs in order.
In Afghanistan, religious herbalists are offering a COVID-19 cure that uses opioids. People really do feel better, but this is not a cure.
The Russian COVID-19 announcement is a con job. They have not conducted Phase III trials and don’t know if it actually works.