Thursday, May 7, 2020

Links to recent posts inspired by the pandemic

Covid-19 pathogenesis and epidemiology:
link Unsupported claim of increased pathogenicity (2020-04-23)
link Covid-19 deaths by county (2020-04-29)
link South Carolina cases (2020-04-30)
link Covid-19 CFR (2020-05-01)
link SARS-CoV-2 transmission (2020-05-03)
link Covid:  good news, bad news (2020-05-05)

SARS-CoV-2 virology:
link Phylodynamics, NextStrain, and "Snohomish" (2020-04-30)
link Rapid reconstruction of SARS-CoV-2 using a synthetic genomics platform

General virology:
link Introduction to animal viruses
link Measles virus

Vaccines:
link Overview of vaccination (2020-05-07)
link DNA and RNA vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 (2020-05-08)
link Virus attenuation (2020-05-18)

Therapeutics:
link Remdesivir

Biochemistry: 
link Covid tests:  PCR (2020-05-06)
link Covid tests:  LAMP + CRISPR (2020-05-06)
link Sensitivity, specificity and Bayes (2020-05-06)
link DNA sequencing:  classical methods (2020-05-08)
link Chromatography (2020-05-10)
link Electrophoresis (2020-05-10)

Literature:
link Lewis Thomas on Streptococcal pneumonia (orig FB 2020-03-29)

Stupid stuff debunked here (links):
link Lyme disease is a U.S. government-developed bioweapon (false)
link Mouse retrovirus associated with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (false)
link Vaccines contain heavy metals (other than mercury) (false)
link Judy Mikovits (crazy person) + this
link Didier Raoult and HCQ (crazy person)
link No saline placebo trials for vaccines (false) --- No true Scotsman fallacy

A connection between thimerosal in vaccines and autism is refuted by systematic studies but also by the simple fact that since the removal of thimerosal from childhood vaccines, rates of autism diagnosis have not decreased as predicted but actually increased.