COVID: readers' comments: retracted articles, mask decontamination cost, how virus spreads, vaccines
I would like to bring up a few issues brought by some blog readers (with their permission), as well as a couple of recent articles on vaccines Anita Ung suggested that I should have included the controversy over the large database used in the Lancet article on hydroxychloroquine that I mentioned in my recent blog (see http://gmodestmedblogs.blogspot.com/2020/06/covid-hydroxychloroquine-post-exposure.html ). This article led to the WHO and several governments to alter their approach to treating Covid-19, as well as to the WHO and several research groups globally to halt all ongoing hydroxychloroquine trials (last week the WHO announced it would resume these trials) There were a couple of sources cited: --one is from The Guardian: see https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/covid-19-surgisphere-who-world-health-organization-hydroxychloroquine?CMP=share_btn_tw&fbclid=IwAR075mGPh7Xpl6R0GdqVCYz0sZulGsPgC_tGyyW77MRlAOfoJzQaeF3zW7Q ...