This article is based on a collation initially done by twitter user @the_brumby

“there is no evidence that more restrictive nonpharmaceutical interventions …

Why is the US different?

In the larger countries of Western Europe the scale of death tolls has varied significantly, but …

Lockdown has strained society to the limit

Lockdowns are immensely costly. The UK Government has already planned to spend around £132 billion in the current fiscal year, which is very close to the total annual budget of the National Health Service. ^[1]

This planned financial expenditure of course does not …

Covid deaths and "Pillar One" positive tests are now very low in Leicester

Lab confirmed Covid cases for Leicester were yesterday 0 …

Many of us are wondering, "how the heck did we get here?"

Our response to a virus that is similar in lethality to previous flu epidemics resembles an attempted economic suicide. From UK politicians we hear a droning mantra of "follow the science" but to anyone paying attention, their science …

How many people died per day?

The overall shape of the curves for UK and Sweden is remarkably similar.

In deaths per million population, the daily numbers for Sweden are lower …

In May, "Tucker Carlson Tonight" remained the No. 1 cable news show among adults 25-54. With his other Fox hosts, he dominates cable news in the US. His monologues are forceful and provide a good insight into the mood of the nation - (well perhaps half of the nation, the other …

People back in the 1968/69 were much calmer about flu compared to the high levels of anxiety seen in connection with Covid-19. Perhaps they were used to dealing with illnesses like measles and mumps and perhaps it was due to the absence of social media that has arguably been …

An academic paper from 2020-04-15 models various scenarios to investigate time-dependent strategies of handling the epidemic taking into account the needs of the elderly and those with special medical conditions. Main findings include:

Very little gain, in terms of the projected hospital bed occupancy and expected numbers of death,of …

Sweden has not opted for a strict lockdown yet their curve looks flatter and deaths per million are about half the UK's

From: TheBlogMire

The situation may well change as the days and weeks go by, but so far,

According to the official data from both countries, the approach taken in the UK of keeping people in their homes and closing down huge swathes of the economy, has not had any more …

Lockdown is likely to have major economic implications that in the future may harm healthcare due to lack of resources. This may eventually cause even more deaths and suffering than the COVID-19 pandemic will bring in the near term

• Sweden has adopted a relatively relaxed strategy, seemingly assuming that overreaction …

Hardest hit by the lockdown will be the cancer sufferers, the elderly, those with poor mental health, young children and those currently in utero.

Economic downturn and wider NHS disruption likely to hit health hard – especially health of most vulnerable

Worsening economic conditions and disruptions to NHS services will have …

Prof Robert Dingwall: "...the assumptions used in modelling the pandemic may rest on very flimsy foundations in terms of scientific evidence. This work suggests that UK schools could, and should, begin to reopen as soon as practicable after the initial wave of cases has passed through."

"This is an important …

Tom Jefferson, an epidemiologist and honorary research fellow at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford, said the findings were “very, very important.” He told The BMJ,

“The sample is small, and more data will become available. Also, it’s not clear exactly how these cases were …