This podcast is the first of two and it is more about trying to not panic. Amesh is an infectious disease specialist and the main thing I took from this is that COVID-19 is more infectious than the flu. The podcast is a bit dated as it is pre-
Amidst all the doom and panic-mongering over the Wuhan Flu, it’s good to be able to report that there are some hopeful signs. Although a cure or vaccine is probably at least months away, scientists are already reporting progress. There are also reported signs that the virus may
While the world anxiously waits for a fully tested vaccine to guard against Covid-19, scientists have been experimenting with Chloroquine to treat and prevent Covid-19. We lag behind Europe, still in the throes of the disease, but South Korea and China have had significantly more exposure and time
Regina Scheyvens Massey University New Zealand’s border restrictions will come with significant job and business losses in the tourism sector, both at home and in the Pacific. But the new travel rules are absolutely necessary to protect the health of New Zealanders and people right across Pacific Islands, because
Ina Skosana The Conversation The global crisis triggered by the spread of the new coronavirus disease, COVID-19, continues to take fresh and dramatic turns, causing havoc in dozens of countries around the world. Stock markets remain volatile, having recording historic collapses in share prices. As the disease continued to
Panic buyers are dickheads. Scalpers who try and flog off their massive stockpiles of bog roll and hand sanitiser are even worse. But the million-dollar-a-year elites, our university vice-chancellors, make them all look like paragons of community-spirited virtue. As news of an outbreak of a
The Government continues to delude itself and the population by insisting there is no evidence of community spread. That is simply farcical to even believe, as everyone who has it has to have got it from someone else. Now a new study reveals that 86 percent of people in public
This lax: Hi All! We have arrived safely in Auckland and are now in a hotel waiting out our isolation period. I wanted to make everyone aware of what we experienced at the airport this morning. There was no mention on the plane or information handed out explaining self isolation
When you hear the Deputy Prime Minister tell people overseas they better think about getting back here pronto, then you know we have a problem coming. Some of you don’t believe a word that Winston Peters ever says so you can carry on regardless, and suffer accordingly. I’ll
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BFD readers may or may not be aware of a series of youtube videos put out by a highly experienced British doctor and researcher Dr John Campbell. Those who have not watched these videos will glean much information on what infectious rates/deaths/treatments/ policies and responses are occurring in
Nicolas Chirstakis’s argument re school closures comes from two studies – the first from a study of influenza spread in Japan and Italy where it was decided to close a school once someone attending the school was infected. The end result was it only reduced the number of infected people
Observing the spread of the COVID-19 around the world, what’s striking is not so much countries like Italy, which have been overwhelmed by cases, but countries like Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong, which have not. At first blush, Taiwan would be thought to be uniquely vulnerable: densely populated,
Our “dear leader” Jacinda Ardern tells us the restrictions she put in place to control coronavirus are the strongest in the world, a statement which only goes to show how unaware she is of the constraints other countries have implemented. Some are more far-reaching than ours. Hers was nothing
At a time when hand sanitisers are sometimes impossible to find why not learn how to make it yourself?
