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Continued from here. You may freely quote from previous threads in this series. Oh sure, right....of course you were not cherry picking. I understand your point.

I still can´t believe there are people here saying the pandemic is fake and the deaths by Covid are overblown by this or that reason, and most people who died from Covid died from something else. I already posted graphs showing Excess Deaths curves closely match official COVID death statistics...

A bunch of unevidenced baloney. What individuals? You don't know. Who is advising both Biden and Trudeau? You don't know. Which drugs? You don't know. Who actually died? Got statistics? No, you have no clue. Currently, hospitals are full of idiots who refused vaccines, but you didn't know...

The Chinese government says a 41-year-old man has contracted what might be the world’s first human case of the H10N3 strain of bird flu, but that the risk of large-scale spread is low. China's National Health Commission said the man is in stable condition...

As the previous thread was getting long, I have opened this continuation thread. Please ensure that you all read and follow the modbox in post #3. Sadly, the right-wing crowd has an unlimited supply of gaslight of late.

Scant details at this stage, but hundreds ill with one death so far: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/300177372/hundreds-ill-1-dead-due-to-unidentified-illness-in-india Hopefully, it will turn out to be a known illness or contamination, but it would just about be the perfect christmas present...

Currently, the forthcoming flu season is about to start and everywhere there are messages to get your flu vaccine to keep the hospitals from being overwhelmed with flu on top of Covid-19 cases. Seems reasonable on its face. But influenza has a significantly lower R0 than Covid-19 and it is...

Continuation thread. As ever feel free to quote and reference from first part http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?p=13136936#post13136936 but don't forget the mod box below about keeping this thread to the science. Latest prospective covid treatment: Xrays...

A new Ebola outbreak [CNN] in the Equateur province in the northwestern part of the DRC has killed five people out of nine total infected between 18-30 May. The eastern part of the country was already dealing with an Ebola outbreak that started in 2018 and hasn't had a new case for 21 out of...

Multiple threads have been opened in this Science section regarding the novel corona virus. They cross each other frequently, making it difficult to decide in which thread a comment should go. This thread has been opened for all discussions of the science, math, medicine and technology related...

There's some interesting correlations between the use of the Calmette-Guerin inoculation against tuberculosis (BCG) and improved survival rates amongst those infected with Covid-19. This might explain the strikingly different death rates among culturally and socially similar countries such as...

Continuation thread, usual stuff applies. Previous thread http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=342493&page=67.

Semi-serious theory about the fear of humans' germs causing the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic. https://youtu.be/aEplGGvyDrI aEplGGvyDrI :)

I guess too much timely information would only scare the unwashed masses needlessly. Previous thread had grown too large - http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=341650 feel free to quote etc. from that thread if you want to.

Police departments put out fake warnings about coronavirus contaminated drugs https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/01/us/coronavirus-police-test-drugs-trnd/index.html

I have not yet had the nerve to go to the nut websites and check on this, but I would be surprised if they are not going bonkers over the corona virus outbreak. OK, I did not get the nerve to go the sites themselves but found this summary of some of the wackiness from "Rolling Stone:"...

This is the newly-discovered coronavirus that has caused a minor outbreak in China. At first centred on a fish market, the virus is now known to have spread via human-human contact, just like MERS and SARS before it, both of which are also coronaviruses. USA is the latest country to start...

Measles cases, once considered obsolete in the U.S. are rising: http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/19/measles-cases-reached-15-year-high-in-2011/?hpt=hp_c2 And then some woo-woo types said that vaccines are bad. This is what happens as a result.

Anyone got any guesses what the infamous Sweating Sickness of the 15-16th century was? From what I read in this transcript I wonder if it might have been toxin born. It killed within hours, seemed to convey no immunity to further attacks and primarily struck healthy adult males age 15-45 who are...

http://www.healthinplainenglish.com/presidential-diseases/index.htm Lots of room for obvious jokes...but possibly of interst...

October was breast cancer awareness month. Philadelphia had some of its sky scrapers tinted with pink light and the ribbons are everyone. Breast cancer kills 44,000 people a year. This is, of course, a terrible loss but sometimes I wonder why some diseases get so much attention while others...

I find it a little worrying that some people appear to have no regard or understanding for the potential health consequences of illegally importing animals (birds in this example ). How serious an issue could this be? In their hand luggage?! This virus does kill people. I am appalled that...

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/Living/US/disease_month_040203.html Can you say, "Sharpshooter's fallacy"? :rolleyes:

In a recent online discussion, I saw this: This raises red flags in me, because "alternative health talk" as a reference really hurts the argument. I am busy researching this now, but does anyone know offhand if this is true or not? Anyone have any hard data?

All we ever hear is that if you engage in unsafe sex, you open yourself up to sexually transmitted diseases. You also hear that Aids began amongst the African people. And you hear that West Nile Virus comes from mosquitoes. And you hear that Lyme's Disease comes from deer ticks (not the more...

I dont believe Obesity is disease. One in three Americans is 20 or more pounds overweight (obese)... it just sounds like a few people just have poor diet and little or no exercise. I dont believe that 1 in 3 Americans who eat just as much food as the rest of Americans have some kind of...