Covid19 Archives

Monetising A Vaccine Shows What It’s Really All About.

7 November 2020

LOADSAMONEY! According to the sales pitch on Thursday from investment banks Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley, a COVID-19 vaccine could be a “bumper revenue opportunity“, projected to earn at least $10 billion a year. Morgan Stanley’s projection is at least $10 billion a year across developed countries but Credit Suisse is bigging it up further […]

Remdesivir – an antiviral for a specific narrow group but a wonderdrug for everyone else?

23 October 2020

Antiviral Not Vaccine. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given full approval to remdesivir for the treatment of COVID-19. Remdesivir has been receiving coverage since the early days of the Great Insanity – often touted as a wonderdrug – and has been in use on a compassionate patient-by-patient basis since late January as […]

How many people do you know who have already had SARS-CoV-2?

26 March 2020

A rather distinct although not unique characteristic of COVD-19 – either in the disease itself or the body’s immune system response to it – is the effect on the gustatory or olfactory system. If your sense of smell or taste has recently changed or in the case of the latter you experienced a genuine loss […]

It is a virus not the virus.

21 March 2020

Most individuals will contract a virus from at least one of the four coronavirus genera many times throughout in their lifetime, with alphacoronaviruses HCoV-229E and HCoV-NL63, and betacoronaviruses HCoV-HKU1 and HCoV-OC43 causing the common cold. Within the fours genera there are at least 23 specific known species of virus and with serotypes and probable species, […]