Author Archives for Dr David Livermore

On Being Shanghaied

April 9, 2022 5:52 pm Published by 28 Comments

China has locked down its largest city, Shanghai, and quarantined in camps the 20,000 who've tested positive, but claims only 300 are symptomatic. Are the rest false positives, now confined with the infectious?


Counting the Dead

March 20, 2022 8:00 am Published by 68 Comments

How many have died of COVID-19? Counting deaths is straightforward when a pathogen kills the healthy, as with ebola or plague. It’s not so easy when a pathogen primarily endangers the frail.