How Broad is Covid Immunity?
5 min read Fear of mutations that make their way around antibodies or vaccines is likely misplaced.
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PandaCast | A Conversation with John Church
< 1 min read PANDA’s Peter Castleden in conversation with John Church who developed a simple IFR model to examine the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide.
PANDA’s Response to Daily Maverick: Kung-Flu Panda: dodgy analytics or pandemic propaganda?
14 min read A journalist from the Daily Maverick submitted a series of questions to PANDA for comment. This is our full response.
PandaCast | A Conversation with Dr Knut Wittkowski
< 1 min read Dr Knut Wittkowski is a German epidemiologist and former Head of Biostatics, Epidemiology and Research Design at Rockefeller University.
Lockdowns contradict a century of pre-Covid science
5 min read ‘Many who were angered by our original points about lockdown, now own up to agreeing with them, but have dug up other reasons for carrying on being angry with us.’
PANDA Predictions: What We Got Right and Wrong
< 1 min read Peter Castleden and Piet Streicher of PANDA unpack the modelling and predictions that PANDA made in 2020 with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic. This retrospective look at what PANDA got right and wrong in the predictions also provides insight into how the models are made.
On the Futility of Contact Tracing – Jay Bhattacharya & Mikko Packalen – Inference
2 min read THROUGHOUT THE COVID-19 epidemic, public health authorities have promoted contact tracing as a key tool to combat the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Nearly every country infected by the virus has adopted some version, though with evidently mixed results given the global spread of the epidemic.
You Asked, We Answered
11 min read PANDA scientists, doctors, researchers and writers teamed up to answer the questions you ask most often.
Facts -not fear- will stop the pandemic
2 min read The media relish negative news. “If it bleeds it leads” still holds, and perhaps it’s never been truer than in the COVID-19 era. Every day the news highlights the spread of the virus and tells the sad stories of some of its victims.
COVID-19, The Vaccine and the Betrayal of Sub-Saharan Africa
< 1 min read The ‘Global Health Community’ that previously prioritised diseases such as HIV, TB and the big child killer, malaria, implicitly considers avoidable deaths due to interrupted healthcare an acceptable cost in the attempt to reduce transmission of SARS-COV-2.