Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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"There are so many errors in this short paper that it's hard to know where to start," Meyerowitz-Katz wrote.
The first obvious issue, he told MedPage Today, is "that the paper itself is entirely based on previous work." Researchers copied the methods from an influential 2021 paper,opens in a new tab or window published in eLife, by Ariel Karlinsky, a PhD student at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, and Dmitry Kobak, PhD, a research scientist at the University of Tübingen in Germany, Meyerowitz-Katz said. That paper has been cited by organizations like the United Nations and CDC, he added.
"They re-analyzed it badly, and then they published it as novel work, which is extremely problematic," Meyerowitz-Katz noted.
Karlinsky has called foropens in a new tab or window The BMJopens in a new tab or window to "retract the paper, open an inquiry, share results, make sure this doesn't happen again, and publicly apologize" -- and other experts have echoed that callopens in a new tab or window.


 
Did anyone else enjoy the first lockdown? Personally I thought it was great. Something different, furloughed for three months on full pay in the best summer weather we've had for years, getting jobs done around the house, BBQ's etc.

Looking back, so surreal. 'Elbows up!'
 
Did anyone else enjoy the first lockdown? Personally I thought it was great. Something different, furloughed for three months on full pay in the best summer weather we've had for years, getting jobs done around the house, BBQ's etc.

Looking back, so surreal. 'Elbows up!'
Some people are more accustomed to being cabined up than others. If your social circle is erm, less than desirable then some time away from the relentless moaning and cryarsing was probably a blessing. The other end of the spectrum was much more noticeable in that those who liked to strut and show off found their lives so empty that they fell apart rather quickly. Reckon a lot of it can be found in what respectively you* see when you look in the mirror.

Lockdown imposed a significant reduction in options, just the lessened choice affected some, others that are allergic to books, or amusing themselves, were just lost. There does seem to be a groundswell of animosity towards that entire chapter. And it has become more vocal.

I wasn't overly arsed, besides having Carlo running the show and James left foot to enjoy, my life was/is hardly the stuff of billionaire playboys/girls anyhow.

Did put some weight on though, and wasn't exactly stick thin to start with.
 

This is the report into the resilience and preparedness of the United Kingdom module 1.

The key findings are:

  • It wasn't a 'Black Swan' event and was entirely predictable
  • The pandemic had a disproportionate impact on Britons who were poorer or from an ethnic minority, with a “higher likelihood of sickness and death”.
  • The UK prepared the wrong pandemic
  • No contact tracing system was in place
  • Local planning was undermined by inadequate centralised government response.
  • Lessons weren't learned from previous viral outbreaks.
 

This is the report into the resilience and preparedness of the United Kingdom module 1.

The key findings are:

  • It wasn't a 'Black Swan' event and was entirely predictable
  • The pandemic had a disproportionate impact on Britons who were poorer or from an ethnic minority, with a “higher likelihood of sickness and death”.
  • The UK prepared the wrong pandemic
  • No contact tracing system was in place
  • Local planning was undermined by inadequate centralised government response.
  • Lessons weren't learned from previous viral outbreaks.

Absolute whitewash.

I did control F, and didn’t find one mention of 5G.
 
Excerpt:
"There are so many errors in this short paper that it's hard to know where to start," Meyerowitz-Katz wrote.
The first obvious issue, he told MedPage Today, is "that the paper itself is entirely based on previous work." Researchers copied the methods from an influential 2021 paper,opens in a new tab or window published in eLife, by Ariel Karlinsky, a PhD student at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, and Dmitry Kobak, PhD, a research scientist at the University of Tübingen in Germany, Meyerowitz-Katz said. That paper has been cited by organizations like the United Nations and CDC, he added.
"They re-analyzed it badly, and then they published it as novel work, which is extremely problematic," Meyerowitz-Katz noted.
Karlinsky has called foropens in a new tab or window The BMJopens in a new tab or window to "retract the paper, open an inquiry, share results, make sure this doesn't happen again, and publicly apologize" -- and other experts have echoed that callopens in a new tab or window.


Lol, that'll get the conspiracy crew nutters going.

Huge shame that the BMJ family of journals don't operate open peer reviewing, which BMC journals do (or certainly used to, it's been a while...). Would be interesting to see who reviewed it and any comments.
 
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