Corona Virus Science

This blog explains some of the science related to the corona virus (COVID-19) epidemic from a scientist's perspective. Most posts contain links to the underlying research.

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Saturday, December 11, 2021

O Mi Cron

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It's been about 2 years since the COVID-19 pandemic started. It's been a year since vaccines have been approved. This COVID-19 thin...

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

More Than 560,000 Deaths Due To COVID-19

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With the beginning of a new presidency in the US, the number of 400,000 COVID-19 deaths in the US has come up in various news reports. While...

Monday, December 7, 2020

Cool Science and The Importance of Staying Distant

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This post looks into several important new insights into COVID-19 that were described in recent publications. I will also look at what this ...

Thursday, November 26, 2020

Why COVID-19 Is So Hard To Fight

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In this post, I will use one graph to explain why COVID-19 is so hard to understand, and therefore to fight. It shows the daily confirmed CO...

Monday, November 23, 2020

A Close Look At The Danish Face Mask Study

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In the last week, a Danish research study that tried to study the effectiveness of face masks has gotten a lot of attention in the media. T...

Friday, October 30, 2020

New Evidence That Face Masks Work

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In the last couple of weeks, several new scientific studies were published that provide solid evidence that face masks can reduce COVID-19 ...

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Misleading COVID-19 Information in Florida

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This page describes a systematic pattern of misrepresenting information about COVID-19 by officials in Florida. These officials include the ...

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Peter Richterich, Ph.D.: I have a Ph.D. in Biology, and have worked in the biomedical field for more than three decades. This include postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School, leading a research group at a biotech company, and starting a company that develops software for biomedical research.

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