An In-Depth COVID Discussion
Our discussion leader December is Bud Bromley, formerly of Gloucester, MA, now living in Holualoa, Hawaii.
We will push off our discussion for a week, rescheduling a week later, on Thursday, December 17 and moving it to 7PM eastern time to accommodate Bud in Hawaii.
Here is his bio:
Bud's entrepreneurial leadership exceeded three decades. He was the senior business development, marketing and sales executive at four public corporations, each company a supplier of analytical and life sciences instrumentation, software, consumables and service. Prior to those positions, his 19 year career in Hewlett-Packard Company's Analytical Products Group included worldwide sales and marketing responsibility for Bioscience Products, Global Accounts and the International Olympic Committee, as well as international management assignments in Japan and Latin America. Bud has visited and worked in more than 65 countries and lived and worked in 3 countries. As an executive for bioscience companies it was his job to understand the science behind their products.
There is a substantial amount of reading to do to bone up for this discussion, but reading I hope will provide you with background you want to have. You will certainly have questions if you try to wade through this and that is part of the goal of the discussion.
These references are provided for review leading up to our discussion:
Checked for access
This paper present the facts about how deadly COVID-19 actually is; and facts about who is at risk from COVID; as well as facts about how deadly the widespread lockdowns have been; and a recommended shift in
public policy. This from a a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University with a PhD in economics.
CDC Testing Protocol; here is a little taste of the vocabulary used therein: "The CDC 2019-nCoV Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel is a molecular in vitro diagnostic test that aids in the detection and diagnosis 2019-nCoV and is based on widely used nucleic acid amplification technology."
Checked for access
Here is a graph of WHO data comparing 2019 and 2020 data for viral infections:
A brief background document for understanding RNA vs. DNA
Checked for access
A general discussion for our meeting: Is SARS CoV-2 a follow-on infection after pneumonia, heart disease, kidney disease or other disease which had already weakened the immune system?
Checked for access
A follow-on reading, given last month's discussion on climate change: Fauci: “We have entered the Pandemic Era” because of Climate Change
Checked for access
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html
ReplyDelete