One thing that is particularly worrying me amongst all the Covid-19 panic is long-term lung damage: Some patients who recovered from Covid-19 have suffered reduced lung function and now experience problems such as gasping for air when walking quickly, Hong … Continue reading →
The academic community – not the ones advising Johnson, but most of the rest of it – seems to be strongly in favour of more drastic measures than the government is currently enacting. Here’s a typical article that’s going around … Continue reading →
Not being worried about COVID-19 at a bird’s-eye-population-epidemiological level does not mean that one should not be worried about it at a personal level. I don’t want to get COVID-19 any more than I want to get the flu. Both … Continue reading →
Epidemics generally have a bell-shaped curve. There’s a steep exponential climb, then a plateauing, then an exponential tailing-off. So the question is, when will the tailing-off start with the coronavirus? Official figures show that this is already happening in China … Continue reading →
I’m wondering whether coronavirus, or COVID-19, has been in the UK for months already. There’s three things that make me wonder about that. The first is that there were a lot of reports about people who had contracted the disease … Continue reading →
