Category: Deaths
Sweden: Prepare for a new variant of special importance on March 20th 2022
Sweden has just published a document outlining two scenarios for the future of the pandemic over the next few months. More...
Israel: Finance minister “totally fine” with 1,000 Covid deaths a month
When asked about the over 1,000 who died of Covid in Israel in the past month, Finance minister Avigdor Liberman said, “I am totally fine with it. More...
Man tests positive for Covid 28 times in the six weeks AFTER his death
The body of a Ukrainian man who died from drowning in Italy tested positive for Covid-19 as many as 28 times in the six weeks after his death. More...
Preprint: Recurrent Covid-19 episodes in HCW tended to be more severe
We describe 33 patients with recurrent COVID-19 and a positive PCR. More...
UK NERVTAG: Long term evolution of SARS-CoV-2, 10 February 2022
UK SAGE NERVTAG have released an update of their long term evolution predictions for SARS-CoV-2 in a paper entitled “Can we predict the limits of SARS-CoV-2 variants and their phenotypic consequences? More...
Preprint: Omicron BA.1 infection in mink leads to symptomatic disease with lung pathology and transmission
Experimental infection of American mink with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant BA.1 show that minks remain virus RNA positive for days, develop clinical signs and histopathological changes, and transmit the virus to uninfected recipient. More...
UK Covid dashboard figures “totally misleading and should be abandoned”
The head of the ZOE Covid app in Great Britain, Tim Spector, took aim at the UK government’s Covid dashboard figures today, saying they are “totally misleading and should be abandoned”. More...
Preprint: Omicron BA.2 is more pathogenic than BA.1
“Infection experiments using hamsters show that BA.2 is more pathogenic than BA.1”
Statistical analysis shows that the effective reproduction number of BA.2 is 1.4-fold higher than that of BA.1. More...
UK SAGE: Four scenarios for the evolution of the pandemic
UK SAGE have recently published a document outlining four different scenarios for the evolution of the pandemic in Britain. More...
Scotland: Covid cases, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status, January 2022 *1 UPDATE*
Scotland’s latest information dump on cases, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status continues to show a big disparity between unvaccinated patients and those that have been double and triple jabbed. More...