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First Doses First

The UK moved to a first dose first strategy, where they prioritize vaccine uptake over administering second doses. This means that instead of administering the…

30. December 202030. December 2020
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Could we Vaccinate Twice as Many People?

Michael Minna raises an intriguing possibility in an opinion piece in the New York Times: Instead of giving people two shots of a vaccine, we…

19. December 202019. December 2020
Categories Science, Statistics

Crowd-Forecasting the Covid-19 Pandemic

Some time ago I started working on a crowd-forecasting app for my PhD (code). The app allows experts and non-experts to make predictions for the…

26. November 202030. November 2020
Categories Health

How the Virus Spreads

El País published an article with very nice visualizations of how the coronavirus spreads via aerosols. It’s a light and informative read. Main takeaways: The…

4. November 20204. November 2020
Categories Society, Politics and History

Corona Aid to the Church

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in…

22. July 202022. July 2020
Categories Health

1 Day Sooner

Covid-19 has stirred up a lot of discussions about the ethics of science. I have written before about experiments on humans to learn more about…

10. July 202010. July 2020
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Coronavirus – Useful Information

A lot has happened in terms of research on the coronavirus. Here is a quick overview on what might be useful or interesting information: Nutritional…

26. June 20205. July 2020
Categories Health

Maybe Mass Testing is not a Good Idea

For the last weeks I was very convinced that mass testing would be one of the best ways to make reopening societies safer. This piece…

31. May 202031. May 2020
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Coronavirus and Human Experiments

Bryan Caplan makes a couple of very interesting points supporting human experiments to learn more about Covid-19. I personally don’t like his framing on demagogues,…

23. May 202023. May 2020
Categories Health, Technology

In Favor Of Contact Tracing Apps

I recently wrote an article stating that “Contact Tracing Apps Are Not Going To Save us“. Some people pointed out that while maybe not a…

12. May 202011. May 2020

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