Today, Alberta released their results on the first round of serology (antibody) testing they did. It was reported HERE [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-deena-hinshaw-covid-19-coronavirus-1.5668994] by the CBC. Serology tests detect antibodies in the blood that indicate the person has been exposed to the COVID-19 virus in...
Time for a post full of numbers! I wanted to give a perspective on what's happening internationally, especially in the US since there is so much focus on them right now, much of it very negative. Remember, the main thing that ultimately matters is deaths. If everyone get the virus...
A new, peer reviewed study [https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/06/22/scitranslmed.abc1126] out of Penn State concludes there were over 80x the number of COVID-19 infections in the United States in March than what was reported. These findings are consistent with the outcome of a plethora...
This is a topic I've been wanting to cover for a while now. Unfortunately Canada just doesn't have the data available currently, so I looked to the USA. Luckily, the CDC data is quite robust, so should be able to offer plenty of insight into the true toll of COVID-19....
It's been a while since I did an update on antibody studies, and what that might mean for actual infection rates, associated fatality rates and more. In this post, I will focus on recent antibody studies from both Spain and Sweden. First, let's summarize what we know already: A very...