# \#covid-19 **URL:** https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/tag/covid-19/249.md [Latest](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/latest.md) · [Categories](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/categories.md) · [Tags](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/tags.md) --- ## [Matt Ridley: “The Covid lab leak theory just got even stronger”](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/matt-ridley-the-covid-lab-leak-theory-just-got-even-stronger/434)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [29 April 2026 16:59 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/matt-ridley-the-covid-lab-leak-theory-just-got-even-stronger/434 "2026-04-29T16:59:34Z")
In The Spectator for 2021-11-20, Matt Ridley argues “The Covid lab leak theory just got even stronger”. As for that missing furin cleavage site, another leaked document revealed in September by Drastic, a confederation… --- ## [The turning point comes, it has](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-turning-point-comes-it-has/1907)
**Author:** [@Cyrano](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Cyrano)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [11 October 2025 14:42 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-turning-point-comes-it-has/1907 "2025-10-11T14:42:14Z")
You knew this time was coming. I knew this time was coming. So did they. The gaslighting begins. Democrats were never in favor of the vaccines. Democrats never forced any vaccine mandates or said they would work or … --- ## [Looking back on COVID authoritarianism](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/looking-back-on-covid-authoritarianism/4681)
**Author:** [@Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Citizen_bitcoin)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [26 March 2025 01:48 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/looking-back-on-covid-authoritarianism/4681 "2025-03-26T01:48:03Z")
The article “Looking Back At COVID’s Authoritarian Regimes” by David R. Henderson criticizes the heavy restrictions on freedom imposed by the Trump administration and US governors during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, ca… --- ## [COVID - it's not over](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/covid-its-not-over/3959)
**Author:** [@nagle](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/nagle)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [17 February 2025 10:06 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/covid-its-not-over/3959 "2025-02-17T10:06:49Z")
It’s not over. US hospital admissions. Three big lulls so far, but it keeps coming back. Hospital admissions reflect severe cases, and those are well above the lowest levels seen. Deaths remain low, reflecting the combi… --- ## [Part 1: Moderna Had a Long History of Failure. Then Along Came COVID.](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/part-1-moderna-had-a-long-history-of-failure-then-along-came-covid/4840)
**Author:** [@Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Citizen_bitcoin)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [16 August 2024 04:55 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/part-1-moderna-had-a-long-history-of-failure-then-along-came-covid/4840 "2024-08-16T04:55:01Z")
This is part 2: COVID-19: Moderna Gets Its Miracle Both written by Whitney Webb in 2021 --- ## [Washington Post article - the cancer spike is caused by covid, not the vaxx \\...](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/washington-post-article-the-cancer-spike-is-caused-by-covid-not-the-vaxx/4694)
**Author:** [@Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Citizen_bitcoin)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [14 June 2024 17:04 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/washington-post-article-the-cancer-spike-is-caused-by-covid-not-the-vaxx/4694 "2024-06-14T17:04:10Z")
--- ## [Switzerland Withdraws Recommendation for COVID-19 Vaccination](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/switzerland-withdraws-recommendation-for-covid-19-vaccination/3022)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [20 September 2023 12:02 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/switzerland-withdraws-recommendation-for-covid-19-vaccination/3022 "2023-09-20T12:02:44Z")
The Swiss Office of Public Health has updated their recommendations for COVID-19 vaccination. The official document is available only in the following languages: German French Italian The following was created by Goo… --- ## [Alle gutte Dinge sind drei?](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/alle-gutte-dinge-sind-drei/3336)
**Author:** [@gms](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/gms)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [20 June 2023 23:09 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/alle-gutte-dinge-sind-drei/3336 "2023-06-20T23:09:16Z")
Paraphrasing the news from .ch (source), Switzerland’s third referendum on this topic approved extended the covid restrictions until 2024 (!). Mid-2024 actually. Aller guten Dinge sind drei: 60,2% im Juni 2021, 62% im … --- ## [Jay Bhattacharya—“How Stanford Failed the Academic Freedom Test”](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/jay-bhattacharya-how-stanford-failed-the-academic-freedom-test/2599)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [13 June 2023 00:39 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/jay-bhattacharya-how-stanford-failed-the-academic-freedom-test/2599 "2023-06-13T00:39:13Z")
Jayanta “Jay” Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine, economics, and health policy at Stanford University, where he received both an M.D. and Ph.D in economics. In October 2020, he co-authored the Great Barrington Decl… --- ## [A signal of vaccine efficacy?](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/a-signal-of-vaccine-efficacy/1495)
**Author:** [@Cyrano](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Cyrano)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [7 June 2022 02:50 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/a-signal-of-vaccine-efficacy/1495 "2022-06-07T02:50:38Z")
Ben, the purveyor of USMortality, posted some interesting data and plots on Twitter (@USMortality) recently. The plot of 2021-22 flu season all-cause mortality (ACM) per 100K population (y-axis) v. percent fully vaccinat… --- ## [Would You Take Health Advice from This Man?](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/would-you-take-health-advice-from-this-man/1374)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [15 May 2022 21:13 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/would-you-take-health-advice-from-this-man/1374 "2022-05-15T21:13:15Z")
I’m not talking about the gay son of Gloria Vanderbilt on the left, but the dissipated Harvard drop-out on the right who looks a lot older than his 66 years. As they say, “It’s not the years; it’s the mile… --- ## [La Suisse après le fléau](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/la-suisse-apres-le-fleau/903)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [19 February 2022 15:52 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/la-suisse-apres-le-fleau/903 "2022-02-19T15:52:07Z")
As of Thursday, 2022-02-17, almost all public health restrictions related to COVID-19 are abolished in Switzerland. Here are excerpts from the press release on 2022-02-16 announcing the measures, “Coronavirus: Federal C… --- ## [“The viciousness of tribalism”](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-viciousness-of-tribalism/638)
**Author:** [@Cyrano](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Cyrano)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [1 February 2022 18:48 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-viciousness-of-tribalism/638 "2022-02-01T18:48:46Z")
From the always readable Bad Cat. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-viciousness-of-tribalism it does not take some orchestrated conspiracy to get them all singing from the exact same hymnal and keep them marching… --- ## [COVID Madness at McMurdo Station in Antarctica](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/covid-madness-at-mcmurdo-station-in-antarctica/684)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [6 January 2022 15:58 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/covid-madness-at-mcmurdo-station-in-antarctica/684 "2022-01-06T15:58:47Z")
Willy Forsyth describes “Life in Zero-Covid Antarctica”. Since the appearance of COVID-19, there has not been a single case of the disease at any of the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) stations on Antarctica, of which McM… --- ## [Facebook fact-checks the British Medical Journal](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/facebook-fact-checks-the-british-medical-journal/604)
**Author:** [@drlorentz](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/drlorentz)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [23 December 2021 04:07 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/facebook-fact-checks-the-british-medical-journal/604 "2021-12-23T04:07:42Z")
Facebook ‘fact-checkers’ have decided that an article in the BMJ isn’t quite cricket, thereby meriting cautionary notices when readers shared it. The editors of the BMJ are hopping mad — or at least somewhat miffed. They… --- ## [U n c l e a n!](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/u-n-c-l-e-a-n/598)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [20 December 2021 17:10 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/u-n-c-l-e-a-n/598 "2021-12-20T17:10:01Z")
Just to make the travel experience even more congenial, this showed up in my mailbox this afternoon. If I didn’t have to travel back through Boristan in January, I’d be inclined to ignore it and tell them to pound san… --- ## [COVID-19 and Common Sense with Dr Jay Bhattacharya](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/covid-19-and-common-sense-with-dr-jay-bhattacharya/574)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [17 December 2021 00:48 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/covid-19-and-common-sense-with-dr-jay-bhattacharya/574 "2021-12-17T00:48:56Z")
Dr Jay Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University has both an MD degree and Ph.D. in economics from Stanford. He is an author of the Great Barrington Declaration, advocating a “focused … --- ## [Eugyppius on 'Original Antigenic Sin'](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/eugyppius-on-original-antigenic-sin/560)
**Author:** [@Cyrano](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Cyrano)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [12 December 2021 22:17 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/eugyppius-on-original-antigenic-sin/560 "2021-12-12T22:17:31Z")
Your immune system is challenged by, say, virus A. Antibodies effective in combating virus A are produced. Subsequently, a slightly different version of A’ – call it A’ – is encountered. Instead of developing robust i… --- ## [Swiss Voters to Decide Fate of COVID-19 Law on November 28, 2021](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/swiss-voters-to-decide-fate-of-covid-19-law-on-november-28-2021/233)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [29 November 2021 13:45 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/swiss-voters-to-decide-fate-of-covid-19-law-on-november-28-2021/233 "2021-11-29T13:45:05Z")
On March 19, 2021 the Swiss parliament adopted the “COVID-19 law”, which extended the emergency powers of the federal council (the seven-member executive branch of the Swiss federal government), authorised the test and t… --- ## [Canaries in the Coal Mine](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/canaries-in-the-coal-mine/393)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [17 November 2021 21:51 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/canaries-in-the-coal-mine/393 "2021-11-17T21:51:53Z")
As the year 2020 unfolded, I had a long-running feature on the now-closed Ratburger site called “Year of the Jackpot”, named after the eponymous Robert A. Heinlein story (read it online \[PDF\]). In it, I would post the m…