4 min read PCR testing for COVID-19 aims to detect individuals with a high likelihood of being infectious. However, false positive test results lead to false diagnoses, unnecessary measures and distort the overall picture of the pandemic.
< 1 min read Dr Wodarg is a German physician, health expert and activist, in conversation with PANDA’s Nick Hudson. Words of wisdom from a man who has seen this movie before, and journeyed to the inside of the whale.
21 min read Review update of recent science relevant to COVID-19 policy.
< 1 min read Nick Hudson in conversation with independent Canadian MP, Randy Hillier.
6 min read PANDA believes that the people of South Africa will do the right thing if they are empowered with accurate information. This team’s purpose has been to consider all of the science and to separate the good science from the bad and promote the former.
< 1 min read PANDA’s Dr Clare Craig from the UK in conversation with Nick Hudson.
Clare is a diagnostic pathologist who has looked into the UK’s Covid testing strategy in great detail. In her own words she is a lover of data, digital pathology and AI, sceptical but optimistic.
< 1 min read PANDA Peter Castleden was invited to speak about the risks Covid poses to our kids weighed up against the implications of lockdown and the measures imposed.
Peter talked to a group of concerned teachers and parents from Cape Town, unpacking some of the evidence around the risk of Covid to children, masks on kids and potential for the virus spread.
7 min read We must all be wary of a second wave being manufactured by increases in testing that are presented to us as an increase in cases. It is foolhardy to focus our attention on one disease alone instead of the overall impact of policy choices we make. When we do focus on one disease alone, we should certainly not focus on positive tests but rather on death and hospitalisation data.
< 1 min read PANDA’s Heike Brunner hosts a virtual tea-party and a deep conversation with Professor Sucharit Bhakdi from PANDA’s Scientific Advisory Council.
Immunology (6:01), The Whole Secret to Thinking (13:15), Covid-19 Vaccine (19:30), pre-symptomatic transmission (23:15) , masking healthy children (27:00).
< 1 min read PANDA’s Nick Hudson chats to Dr Sunetra Gupta about her life, her work and what the Corona Crisis has revealed.
