Since March, numerous voluntary translators have made available SPR covid analyses in more than two dozen languages to more than 100 million people.
SPR has now upgraded its technical infrastructure in order to provide fully automated translations based on DeepL and Google AI translation services. This technical upgrade was financed by retrospective reader donations.
Many lockdown skeptics assume that post-acute “long covid” in young and healthy people doesn’t really exist or is insignificant; they assume it must be another media scare tactic to justify lockdowns. But they are wrong: long covid is real, significant, and entirely expected.
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Japan is well-known for not having imposed a lockdown and yet having by far the lowest covid death rate among G8 countries – 1400 official covid deaths in a population of 125 million; excess mortality is higher but still within the normal range – in spite of having the oldest population in the world. Continue... Continue Reading →
Das Schweizer Forschungsprojekt “Corona Immunitas” hat seine neuesten Zahlen zu den Antikörperwerten in der Schweiz präsentiert (siehe Grafik oben). Bis im Sommer hatten in der Region Zürich 3%, in der Region Basel 4%, in der Region Waadt 7%, in der Region Freiburg 8%, und in den Regionen Genf und Tessin 11% Antikörper (IgG) gegen das... Continue Reading →
Australia and New Zealand are among the last Western countries that follow a virus eradication strategy. Both have failed to fully suppress community transmission – Auckland went into full lockdown for a second time in August – but both have managed to keep covid deaths very low. Continue reading →
As predicted by SPR months ago based on antibody data, covid infections, hospitalizations and deaths are now increasing again in many European countries. Antibody values are still very low (<5%) in much of Europe and also in large parts of the US.
The much-cited WHO meta-study on facemasks, which claimed an 80% risk reduction and was instrumental in the global facemask policy shift, has turned out to be seriously flawed and “essentially useless”. Read more about the WHO study →
Schweiz: Kumulierte Übersterblichkeit, 2010-2020 (Stotz/BFS/BAG)
In der Schweiz lag die kumulierte Jahresübersterblichkeit bis Woche 35 wieder nahe bei null und damit unter den meisten saisonalen Grippewellen der letzten zehn Jahre (siehe Grafik oben). Die Hauptgründe dafür sind der milde Winter, der milde Sommer, die frühen Maßnahmen und das sehr hohe Medianalter der Corona-Todesfälle (84 Jahre, ca. 50% in Pflegeheimen).
SPR has published a short September update and updated the covid facts summary.
Most Western countries report a covid IFR of about 0.3% in the general population (most recently Switzerland, Iceland and Indiana), essentially driven by the 70+ age group. This value can double or triple if nursing homes are included or if there is a local collapse of health care.
