More COVID vaccines, less excess deaths worldwide
Back in the days of COVID, there was a lot of debate about the efficacy of the vaccines. Unfortunately, most randomized trials were cut-short or too small to look at…
How unreal is long-COVID?
Research funding for COVID is amazing. A lot of academics got and continue to get grants promising to do research on COVID. Unfortunately, COVID kinda died out recently and the…
Vaccine viral hormesis
So the cool kids are talking about vaccine effectiveness, and the problems of estimating this. The simple starting point is to take government statistics about deaths or hospitalized cases or…
Who doesn’t want the COVID vaccine?
So you've probably seen the midwit meme about COVID vaccine skepticism: The data given to back this one up is this survey: Now you might be tempted to question some…
COVID vaccine and fertility: no need to worry (June 14th 2021)
I know some people are who are into conspiratorial thinking about COVID vaccines. Bill Gates trying to decrease your fertility stuff. Anyway, so I did the science thing, that is,…
Book review: The Great Reset (Klaus Schwab & Thierry Malleret, 2020)
Sometimes I take the time to read a 'normal' book. This was one of them, prompted by some friends who wanted my opinion. The best thing I can say about…
No excess mortality data from COVID-19 in Denmark: data as of 12th April 2020
I wrote to the lead editor of the Danish Statistics Agency on mortality data (Dorthe Larsen) on the 14th April to ask why their public mortality database is not up…
Why tracking COVID-19 hospitalization data makes sense
Every day, I post the updated Danish COVID-19 hospitalization data on Twitter and Facebook The latest version is always available at https://rpubs.com/EmilOWK/COVID19_Denmark. The raw data are here. The figures for…
Medium censors Coronavirus post
I hate censorship, so here I provide backups. Note that Twitter censors linking to the archive.ph archived version, giving users a false error message. https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1241734643948359680 Twitter apparently auto-throttles tweets that…