This is the first in the ongoing series of posts with interesting links. I will try to make these as regular as possible but I probably won’t be able to compete with Tyler Cowen, yet. Evidence that the Omicron variant is relatively mild is growing stronger by the day. Here…

Covid-19 and Driving: A Valid Analogy Those of us who have raised the driving analogy to argue against Covid-19 restrictions on most people have mostly been ridiculed. And yet, driving kills roughly as many people every year as Covid-19 has killed in 2020 so far. If the severely injured are…

Abstract After the initial reluctance to recognize the aerosol transmission route as being of any significant importance in Covid-19, the scientific community seems to have settled upon the idea that it has probably been important in certain indoor superspreader events. This paper puts forward additional lines of evidence suggesting that…

Many people in the crypto space believe that decentralized finance, or DeFi is the industry’s best candidate for the killer app at the moment. Indeed, the amount of cryptocurrency locked in DeFi has quickly skyrocketed to almost $3.5 billion from just $1 billion a year ago. DeFi-generated transaction activity has…

When one follows the public discussion about the response to the Covid-19 pandemic, one increasingly gets the impression that there are only two alternatives: shutdowns or masks. Either everyone is made to wear the latter, the logic goes, or governments will have no choice but freezing the social life. Although…

The grotesque failure of the most widely cited epidemiological models to correctly predict the dynamics of Covid-19 epidemics (that this author has documented quite early in the Lombardian case) raises the question whether many areas of science today are not too much focused on modeling at the expense of actual…

In my previous article, I looked into some recent research on influenza transmission and raised the possibility that a similar pattern of transmission hypothesized for it may hold for SARS-CoV-2 (SCV2). As a quick reminder, influenza researchers have recently found that a much smaller dose of virus was needed to…

Note: this article is very speculative. Its main goal is to attract attention to important recent research on influenza transmission and to evidence on Covid-19 spread modes, not to make confident conclusions. If you don’t like my speculations, just read the research cited. Much of the modelling and public health…

The Covid-19 pandemic and the apparent surge in cases and deaths worldwide has engendered a global panic and a stringent response up to total lockdowns in most affected countries. …