Covid

2024-10-02

Nope, the Pandemic Did Not Make Us All Gain Weight:: NHANES data suggests that, contrary to earlier speculation, the Covid-19 pandemic didn’t cause everyone (well, Americans) to gain weight.

2024-09-29: How unique is Covid-19?

2024-09-29

The Forever Plague and its enemies: A reminder to put Covid in the context of other illnesses and the external events it’s associated with before assigning it uniquely nightmarish properties.

2024-09-23

Two New Studies Point to Diabetes from COVID: Getting Covid may be a risk factor for developing diabetes, whilst having diabetes is a risk factor for getting severe Covid symptoms.

2024-09-03: Research suggests that GLP-1 pharmaceuticals can prevent Covid-19 deaths

2024-08-26: The US Food and Drug Administration approved new vaccines for Covid-19 last week. The recommendation …

2024-08-04: TIL: Boris Johnson once disfigured a Long Covid report he was supposed to read by scrawling the word …

2023-06-16: The Partygate report is here

2023-03-27: This life expectancy chart from from Peterson-KFF’s Health System Tracker is quite shocking …

2022-12-28: Covid-19 mRNA vaccines are weakly associated with Myopericarditis - but not nearly as much as having Covid-19 is

2022-06-29: A new study estimates that Covid-19 vaccines saved 14.4 million lives (95% CrI = 13.7 - 15.9 …