Coronavirus Central
50 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 724 ratingsCoronavirus Central is a daily podcast which covers the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic with open source intelligence to promote public health, information, and safety.
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Episodes
CV Central - 4/10/2020 - "Divided We Stand: The Fault Lines of Covid Dysfunction in America"
April 10, 2020 13:34 - 2 hours - 2 BytesCV Central celebrates our fiftieth episode as the longest running pandemic podcast by looking at how the struggle to find winners financially and ideologically is making the American response incoherent which portends a hard future on every front, including health and economics. As the WSJ shifts to see immune suppression as playing a major role, we see the Fed tell us unemployment will rise further still as the economy shrinks. A delayed and reactive Federal response emphasizing top-down ...
CV Central - 4/9/2020 - "How Brazil is like America and troubled nations around the world."
April 09, 2020 14:05 - 2 hours - 2 BytesEpisode 49 looks at how countries around the world are handling the coronavirus outbreak. We look at Korea reporting about this question of reactivation and what it means to start things off. From there, we look at how badly Ecuador has been pounded and all the ways in which Brazil, a country not dissimilar to the United States in many aspects, is struggling and sits just before a major outbreak. India is trying to prevent a disaster, as we share a story of a gathering in Pakistan 100,000...
CV Central - 4/8/2020 - "Hypoxia, Antibodies, Reactivation, Ivermectin, and Mask Distribution"
April 08, 2020 14:23 - 2 hours - 2 BytesIn our 48th episode, we explore challenging evidence suggesting that antibody protection is brief and scant, that the red blood cells are another target, and a provocative fear that asymptomatic carriers may experience reactivation through means not understood within a month of a first infection. After looking at the troubles in the Bronx, and an elevated death toll from the UK from home deaths, we consider why ivermectin might be helping as another antimalarial. We add evidence the hypoxi...
CV Central - 4/7/2020 - "The bad news in plain sight, divorcing finance from the economy, and China."
April 07, 2020 14:08 - 2 hours - 2 BytesEpisode 47 offers a counterpoint to the optimism which is infecting the West and leading to dangerously premature conclusions. New reporting from Spain suggests a death told double or triple what was officially recorded from Covid, more people in Korea are testing as reinfected, and we look at the suggestion hypoxia, a lack of oxygen, might be part of the problem resulting from the virus potentially interacting with hemoglobin, or red blood cells. As promised, economics are considered as d...
CV Central - 4/6/2020 - "The limits of social distancing and the known unknowns."
April 06, 2020 14:42 - 2 hours - 2 BytesFor Episode 46, we reset and take a look at the current situation. Good news about flattening curves in Spain, Italy, and elsewhere conceals that we are at the beginning of a long story. We look at the modeling from US and the many missteps along the way as we ask if we're really turning the corner, using the South as having many examples of how the modeling that presumes distancing does not reflect the on the ground reality. Then, we ask about the adaptability of the coronavirus, noting ...
CV Central - 4/3/2020 - "China and the United States - A Complicated Situation"
April 03, 2020 15:38 - 2 hours - 2 BytesEpisode 45 delves deeply into China, their response, and the evolving competition with the United States. We start by looking at Latin America coming into crisis, promising a rising death toll and infection in countries from Mexico to Chile, peeking at Ecuador here. We see nearly 7 million Americans now out of work as backdrop. From there, we see the CIA reporting now that the CCP fudged the numbers. China is friendly to some with new propaganda outlets and offers of masks to Italy and t...
CV Central - 4/2/2020 - "Who else dies, cats as spreaders, and ventilator support issues"
April 02, 2020 13:09 - 2 hours - 2 BytesHere in Episode 44, we look more deeply into the two to three times normal death rate of people who are passing beyond annual averages in Lombardy of whom only a third are being attributed to Covid. A new study suggests ferrets and cats may carry the coronavirus, including the possibility cats exhale the virus. Even with more ventilators coming online, shortages in doctors, drugs, and oxygen represent new problems, as nurses are more actively protesting being asked to work absent PPE. Can...
CV Central - 4/1/2020 - "Neurological invasion, silencing of physicians, and an attitudinal shift"
April 01, 2020 13:59 - 2 hours - 2 BytesEpisode 43 starts with a troubling case of a woman from Detroit who suffered acute hemorrhagic necrotizing encephalopathy - or a bleeding brain - apparently related to Covid and the cytokine storm problem. We look at a study from Los Angeles that showed only 5% of the suspected influenza patients had Covid, meaning both coronavirus spread is in the community there but also still likely has many more people to reach foreshadowing a longer interval. That's bad news for doctors being silenced...
CV Central - 3/31/2020 - "Spread Through Conversation, Growing Unrest, Under Reporting Fatalities"
March 31, 2020 13:25 - 2 hours - 2 BytesWe seek the ultimate questions in Episode 42 as some of your inquiries are answered with the latest research. We look at how not just cases, but deaths are likely being under reported especially as places with taxed medical systems make the decision to exclude high risk low survivability patients, substantiated by proving fatality numbers versus annual averages and Covid official casualty counts that are substantially beneath this discrepancy. We learn that infants seem not to carry the co...
CV Central - 3/30/2020 - "Immune Overreaction, Months not Weeks, and Detroit"
March 30, 2020 13:06 - 2 hours - 2 BytesWe begin our eighth week of coronavirus coverage with Episode 41 as we look to answer questions. Exploring the confused immune response and cytokine storm effects may explain why certain people get more ill including critically so, offering new avenues for medical intervention. We discuss the high mortality rate and the problems of ventilators. Countries around the globe push back the timeframe as we see an unusually high unattributed number of dead people emerge from Wuhan questioning th...
CV Central - 3/27/2020 - "What Covid means for the human economy, key fault lines revealed"
March 27, 2020 13:36 - 2 hours - 2 BytesThe fortieth episode looks at the second part of the health equation which is to delve into why the economic problem is so bad. After a quick review of drug shortages, an exploration of a different pathway by which the coronavirus is harming people, and a glance into Russia getting sick and Italy having dead whose numbers are rising sharply in one town without an attributed reason, we look at the pending policy bill. A pork-laden monstrosity that is conceived reactively as just another res...
CV Central - 3/26/2020 - "NYC in Grave Detail, Ethics of Death Panels, Tipping Point"
March 26, 2020 15:23 - 2 hours - 2 BytesEpisode 39 is the first part of an exploration about the dangers America faces and what we realistically should respect from this virus. After a quick update in which it appears reinfection is less likely as good news but mutation more aggressive as bad news, we go into the action in New York's hospitals where life and death scenes are playing out right now as supply is being overwhelmed. The stark relief comes into focus with two pieces by the New England Journal of Medicine that consider...
CV Central - 3/25/2020 - "The False Calm, Key Vulnerabilities, and How the Banks are Gaming Us"
March 25, 2020 13:33 - 2 hours - 2 BytesEpisode 38 goes for a wider and deeper cut into the virus. We check in with New York where the hospital system is now under deep stress, in the quickly expanding Atlanta cluster, see LA cutting off power to those businesses who stay open, and we look into how China lost many cell phone users as another hint something worse happened. People flee from the cities to the country to cold receptions as countries begin shutting down trade and exports for their own domestic need. The military has...
CV Central - 3/24/2020 - "America Sold Out, Risk Factor Considered, and Europe Grappling"
March 24, 2020 13:47 - 1 hour - 1 ByteEpisode 37 begins with a scathing critique of how America's determination to put finance, not economics, ahead of science and health is going to lead to this country experiencing the worst of all worlds with the utterly inadequate response by both the Executive and Legislative branches where it is increasingly clear everything but Covid is their priority. We present a compelling case from Johns Hopkins as to why the science is bad and use an article about the peril to commercial mortgages w...
CV Central - 3/23/2020 - "NYC Exploding, On Site Reports, Debt Bubble, and Contingencies"
March 23, 2020 14:39 - 2 hours - 2 BytesEpisode 36 starts a new week with more stories about the terrible symptoms of this disease as well as a report all may not be well in Wuhan. Italy can't even count their dead and now Covid-19 is everywhere in Canada. New York features as the center of this outbreak with 5% of global current cases and we see the struggle to keep going as one surgeon at NY Presbyterian Hospital reports that can't meet the coming demand. Medical imports are lagging, chloroquine is running out, and the search...
CV Central - 3/20/2020 - "A Drug for Severe Cases, Privacy Issues, and States on the Move"
March 20, 2020 13:30 - 1 hour - 1 ByteSome positive news starts Episode 35 as we report on a new blood test for Covid antibodies which might open up the opportunity for rapidly expanded onsite testing. We also found a study from China which reports that Tocilizumab is a drug which helped patients in severe distress recover lymphocytes and improve blood oxygen saturation, a chance to reduce the ventilator shortage. The government is working with social media to gain information even as suppression efforts continue, including mo...
CV Central - 3/19/2020 - "18 Months, Captive Populations, and Mass Unrest"
March 19, 2020 13:35 - 1 hour - 1 ByteFor Episode 34, we start with a reminder that younger people can and do get sick, die, and use valuable resources when they don't separate themselves from the Covid-19 outbreak. London is moving toward lockdown as the United States sees a report leak that claims they see the crisis as being 18 months or longer, perhaps informed by the Imperial College study and the time to vaccine with multiple waves. Amazon now has a warehouse worker sick and a personal anecdote about food scarcity serve ...
CV Central - 3/18/2020 - "Youth at Risk, Who Pays for What, and the US South"
March 18, 2020 13:09 - 1 hour - 1 ByteFor our thirty-third episode, we start by noting that Facebook is now blocking legitimate stories which they attribute to a "bug" as the WHO and partners invest more energy into controlling information than fighting the outbreak. We share a new study that suggests children can still be at risk, though thankfully less than adults, as we also report from the Dutch that many young seemingly healthy people are in severe distress from Covid. The hope is people will change their behaviors as New...
CV Central - 3/17/2020 - "France, San Francisco, Amazon, T-Cells, and Chokepoints"
March 17, 2020 13:55 - 2 hours - 2 BytesA deeper look into how these lockdowns will function and what purpose they serve is the focus of Episode 32. After more harrowing evidence from Italy, we look deeply into why you don't want to treat Covid with ibuprofen for the early fever and a dive into the T-cells suggests that afflicted immune response is at the heart of case severity. Revised modeling in the UK is leading to a shift from mitigation to containment, as reflect in France's mandatory shutdown. We see the same in the US s...
CV Central - 3/16/2020 - "Lockdowns Everywhere, Ohio Leads, and Severe Predictions"
March 16, 2020 13:03 - 1 hour - 1 ByteEpisode 31 sees a new week beginning with the world shutting down to fight coronavirus by stopping the spread by any means possible. Austria, France, and Spain join Italy in lockdown as Europe's outbreak accelerates wildly. We cycle the Anglosphere to see New Zealand closing down fast, Australia treading water, the United States stumbling, and the UK preparing for the worst. Ohio offers an example of aggressive proactive action for social distancing as other states and cities begin indepe...
CV Central - 3/14/2020 - "What To Expect in the Coming Days"
March 14, 2020 13:30 - 1 hour - 1 ByteFor the thirtieth episode, we take stock of what we have to expect as the first heavy blast of the coronavirus outbreak is hitting the West beyond ravaged Italy. A story from Hong Kong talks about lost lung capacity from survivors who at least, in the short term, seem likely not to be immediately reinfected based on best research. The war against Covid is furious in Italy, and we share a personal narrative of what it was like seeing the world a person knew disappear in two weeks to the nov...
CV Central - 3/13/2020 - "Burial Mounds, China/US Tensions, and Boston Prepares"
March 13, 2020 14:49 - 2 hours - 2 BytesEpisode 29 starts with a quick jaunt through the world of the Covid-19 pandemic looking at Iran having major trouble with mass graves potentially spotted as Italy is buckling. We see the viral shedding lasts up to 37 days with a median of 20 days post infection as India offers another similar treatment protocol. As the crisis deepens, tensions between the US and China are beginning to flare as China's export economy and America's dependence on Chinese drugs create a toxic relationship as p...
CV Central - 3/12/2020 - "Aerosol and Masks, Immune Suppression, Chloroquine, Inadequate Policy"
March 12, 2020 15:43 - 2 hours - 2 BytesEpisode 28 goes for a deep dive into science and policy about the coronavirus outbreak. We start with a new study which informs us Covid-19 can survive as an aerosol for up to three hours contradicting the earlier claim by the CDC that masks were unnecessary, a major problem as we are desperately lacking supplies despite efforts to ramp up production. We present a study that argues for immune suppression capacity of Covid-19 with reduced white blood cell count, but which offers also a usef...
CV Central - 3/11/2020 - "European Outbreak, Bad Social Habits, and Collateral Damage"
March 11, 2020 15:44 - 1 hour - 1 ByteFor Episode 27, we broaden our horizons to check out what is happening in Spain, France, and Japan. A quarantine much like New Rochelle, New York is in northern Spain as French people defy Covid-19 to have a Smurf convention in contravention of sound public health. Japan finds small gatherings just as dangerous as large ones. We look at Washington's ventilator problem and the potential for DC to soon be a hot spot. All this, and a discussion of what issues you should be keeping your eyes...
CV Central - 3/10/2020 - "Reports from Italy, Ventilator Shortages, Food Supply"
March 10, 2020 14:26 - 2 hours - 2 BytesEpisode 26 sees a quarantine imposed across Italy as prisoners revolt, the economy shudders, and doctors tell of war zones as the #Covid-19 pandemic is raging beyond their ability to try. We look at the four critical shortages that hinder the effort: Lack of PPE, lack of antiviral drugs, lack of ICU beds, and lack of ventilators. That last point with a nationwide hospital supply of only 160k may prove the inescapable obstacle as we see multiple reports describe people dying from the inabi...
CV Central - 3/9/2020 - "Drive Through Testing, Italy ICU Overrun, New York and Houston considered"
March 09, 2020 13:56 - 1 hour - 1 ByteOur fifth week of service begins with Episode 25. A report from Japan of the first coronavirus related case of meningitis kicks off our coverage. 16 million Italians are now under quarantine to arrest the spread of the deadly pandemic even as doctors in Italy report the ICUs are overloaded, younger people are getting sick in a later wave, and that rationing access to hospitals will be necessary. We look at how Germany is slowly getting up to speed and how borders are starting to form in E...
CV Central - 3/7/2020 - "Recombination, Shortfalls, and Cancellations"
March 07, 2020 16:15 - 1 hour - 1 ByteWe close our fourth week with Episode 24. New evidence emerges to substantiate claims of neurological damage, substantial risks to cardiovascular health, and we find Covid may not just mutate, but also reconfigure itself in a process called genetic recombination. A DOD Study suggests a flu shot might heighten your risk to contract any coronavirus, and we see two different studies about how the new endemic virus will have major consequences for our medical system at first and our society at...
CV Central - 3/6/2020 - "Children Super-Spreaders, Congressional Funding, and Tough Choices"
March 06, 2020 14:47 - 1 hour - 1 ByteIn Episode 23, we're looking at a new study from Shenzhen in China about how this virus spreads and the suggestion that children, thankfully spared the worst of the disease to all current accounts, may also be a primary source of transmission. Feces might offer another alternate equally valid and more easily accessible path for future testing. We share the story of a nurse who got sick and the system that failed her as Washington State calls on Federal help for resupply of key equipment re...
CV Central - 3/5/2020 - "Brain Infection, Doctor Concerns, and New Modeling"
March 05, 2020 14:29 - 1 hour - 1 ByteIn this twenty-second episode, we report new evidence from China which further suggests #Covid-19 is a neurological disorder, as well as another example of an infected person who was nominally "cured" who has now died. India has found their first cluster, California has their first reported death, and South Africa is now infected. An NHS doctor from the UK lays out what help ICUs need and Singapore develops a new three hour 99% accurate test. The NHS stops reporting daily and Florida refu...
CV Central - 3/4/2020 - "Two Strains of Virus; Four Cities Response; Seattle's Choices"
March 04, 2020 15:12 - 1 hour - 1 ByteFor Episode 21, we begin laying foundations for the Human War against Covid-19 by reporting we now have evidence there are (at least) two dominant and different strains of the virus in the larger public, with a more aggressive "L" strain that appears to have evolved from an ancestral but perhaps less easily detectible "S" strain. Adding that to our list of questions, we review what happened from Wuhan in detail as precusor to how other world cities are approaching their outbreaks. We see Q...
CV Central - 3/3/2020 - "Assessing Medical Readiness for the War Against Covid"
March 03, 2020 14:33 - 2 hours - 2 BytesWith our twentieth episode, Coronavirus Central evolves in a new direction as we seek to make sense of how to deal with the burgeoning pandemic versus reacting and reporting to cases. An active mindset based on reality and threat assessment is emerged instead of a reactive mindset based on feelings and risk mitigation. We look at why South Korea's model is working better, why Europe's is not, and how taking the fight to Covid, declaring war against this common threat to humanity, is precis...
CV Central - 3/2/2020 - "Neurological Impact, Case Spread, and Outbreak Modeling"
March 02, 2020 15:01 - 2 hours - 2 BytesIt's a sobering Episode 19 where we start by looking at rapid worldwide progression of the Covid-19 pandemic. We start by evaluating risk factors to have a better understand of this disease, noting the elevated cancer, diabetes, and obesity numbers, as well as having a larger elderly population, suggest our vulnerable population percentage may be higher than China. Two new articles are covered in exhaustive detail cataloging both that Covid may behave like AIDS in actively suppressing the ...
CV Central - 2/29/2020 - "West Coast, Medical Shortages, and WHO Accountability"
February 29, 2020 15:46 - 1 hour - 1 ByteIn Episode 18, I share a little bit more about myself and some of the reasons why this podcast has proven particularly effective at being able to find information you don't find elsewhere . We look at the WHO report from China and question its integrity given actions by the WHO and China to suppress information throughout this outbreak. Cases are breaking out along the West Coast of the US now as we ask again why we keep seeing more stories about "cured" people test positive. A partial li...
CV Central - 2/28/2020 - "Censorship, Iranian Clusters, and ICU Units"
February 28, 2020 13:37 - 1 hour - 1 ByteIn our seventeenth episode, we look at the tightening release of government information as the White House puts a gag on the Federal government sharing information about the outbreak. We see a story about the UK's plan to institute care panels and their contingency planning is removed. A report from Italy shares how ICU beds are filling up as one Chinese province reports 14% of Covid-19 victims test as reinfected. We look closely at why Iran is in such trouble including the likelihood muc...
CV Central - 2/27/2020 - "California, Chimeras, and Case Studies"
February 27, 2020 13:05 - 1 hour - 1 ByteEpisode 16 starts with review of a story published in the Sun which considers the UK projection that up to 500k could die from Covid-19 in a worst case scenario with cold math that suggests this is worse and that story is an effort to begin slowly raising the level of public awareness about the peril before us. We look at the rapidly advancing outbreak in South Korea, and apply that logic to the clusters which will form. The first disconnected case in California is traced back to Travis AF...
CV Central - 2/26/2020 - "Public Disclosure, Risk Assessment, and the Next Steps"
February 26, 2020 13:13 - 1 hour - 1 ByteEpisode 15 offers a framework to deal with a rapidly changing world as the Covid-19 pandemic spreads quickly through Iran, Italy, and South Korea and we see Europe, the Middle East, and now Latin America joining the fray. We consider what virologists say about how widely this will spread, speak honestly about the millions or tens of millions who will be impacted, and critically gauge the CDC's effectiveness in light of the public admission people should prepare now because the coronavirus i...
CV Central - 2/25/2020 - "Banking, Bureaucrats, and Big Numbers"
February 25, 2020 14:47 - 1 hour - 1 ByteEpisode 14 begins with a deeper dive into imagining a more effective quarantine policy as we more closely examine the Italian response with the case count roaring toward 300 and neighboring countries being infected. We continue asking for a more robust response from the WHO and CDC, and look into the pandemic bonds asking if the reason why we have not seen a pandemic declared has much to do with a banking quirk worth at least half a billion dollars. Larger studies looking at the case vo...
CV Central - 2/24/2020 - "Italy, Markets Reacting, Iran"
February 24, 2020 13:06 - 1 hour - 1 ByteEpisode 13 starts with a reset of the situation to summarize for our new listeners what we have learned about the Covid-19 pandemic, key questions we still have, and a brief outline of events and discoveries. Key discoveries include that "cured" patients also need a 14 day quarantine lest they spread the virus, the FDA reports impending shortages for 150 drugs, and local governments resist efforts from the CDC to place Covid-19 victims in their community. The CDC continues to criminally un...
Coronavirus Central - February 22, 2020 - "Means of infection, CDC Problems, Preparation"
February 22, 2020 14:56 - 1 hour - 1 ByteIn Episode 12, we report upon the rapidly declining situation in South Korea with updates from Iran and Italy. Wuhan claims cases are dropping as they build 19 new hospitals in a growing pattern to undermine the credibility of countries and institutions alike. We look at a fight between the CDC and State Department about those Diamond Princess passengers who were brought home without even consulting the President and against medical advice. New information suggesting that feces accelerat...
Coronavirus Central - Episode 11 - February 21, 2020: "Korea, Reinfection, and Treatments"
February 21, 2020 14:46 - 1 hour - 1 ByteEpisode 11 begins with a deeper look into South Korea's outbreak which has three clusters as cases have increased six fold in just two days. We look into Iran which is now reporting four deaths amidst a growing case load, and the start of a cluster potentially near Milan in Italy. A deeper look into the question of reinfection and contagiousness answers a listener question. We offer US updates from Nebraska, Kansas, New York, and ask the question about why the CDC is looking so much at th...
Coronavirus Central - Episode 10 - February 20, 2020
February 20, 2020 14:33 - 1 hour - 1 ByteEpisode 10 features a series of news reports from around the world about the rapidly changing state of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak. We start with examining the reduction in case reporting from China coupled with the insertion of industrial organic waste incinerators in Wuhan and promises from the government there to punish anyone whose area reports cases. The first deaths emerge from Iran, suggesting a deeper and previouly unrecognized infection area may be present. Cases triple o...
Coronavirus Central - Episode 9 - February 19, 2020
February 19, 2020 14:06 - 1 hour - 1 ByteIn Episode 9, we dive more deeply into what is happening in Japan. With nearly a hundred cases beyond the sad story of the Diamond Princess, we see the beginnings of an outbreak in Japan with several clusters of cases inside and outside Tokyo. Public criticism is rising about lax health measures as the Health Ministry explores HIV drugs for treatment, working from home, and more testing kits being made available. All these, however, are still outweighed by Japan's determination to keep t...
Coronavirus Central - Episode 8 - February 18, 2020
February 18, 2020 13:07 - 56 minutesEpisode 8 dives into the supply chain interruptions taking a look at how deeply Covid-19 is impacting the Chinese economy, the heavy reduction in usage of fuel and transportation, the risk to the food supply, and the perils of manufacturing during an epidemic. We look at how the West is exposed with a focus on the medical supply and pharmaceutical sectors, electronics, manufacturing, and automobiles, and the real problems of finding alternate suppliers with the world's primary manufacturer ...
Coronavirus Central - Episode 7 - February 17, 2020
February 17, 2020 13:24 - 53 minutesEpisode Seven dives more deeply into the public response to the Covid-19 outbreak. We look at the missteps by both the CDC and WHO, including release of infected patients, improper test kits, and the political connections that are leading to public silence even as we see larger preparations under way. The International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses labled the Novel Coronavirus as SARS-2, but the politicians at the WHO didn't want the sort of public response they could not control, s...
Coronavirus Central - Episode 6 - February 15, 2020
February 15, 2020 22:00 - 46 minutesEpisode Six of Coronavirus Central looks much more deeply into the ACE-II pathway by which Covid infects humans and what implications result. We start by examining the nature of the Angiotensin Converting Enzyme, revealing it is an essential component of all humans with heavy clusters in the lower respiratory system, and being used to regulate blood pressure. As we review news and studies based both on Covid and SARS which uses this same mechanism, we learn of the threat not just from infe...
Coronavirus Central - Episode 5 - February 14, 2020
February 14, 2020 15:03 - 56 minutesIn Episode 5, we review a study that suggests a far higher case count in Wuhan than previously reported by using statistics to determine both the number of asymptomatic carriers as well as to offer analysis of how effective the quarantine efforts are proving. From there, we look at the potential for re-infection as well as how this disease might evolve and recur on a seasonal basis. A deeper dive into the supply line reveals the many vulnerabilities in public health against an outbreak in...
Coronavirus Central - Episode 4 - February 13, 2020
February 13, 2020 14:17 - 47 minutesIn Episode Four, we review the change in criteria by the Chinese government to include clinically diagnosed cases which saw a jump of 14,480 new cases and 242 new deaths reported on February 12th. These new criteria bring the numbers closer to what mathematical modeling predicts as we share two studies that suggest the transmission rate should be between 5 and 6 with an incubation period as long as 24 days observed. This means the 14 day quarantines are ineffective, as the spread of cases ...
Coronavirus Central - Episode 3 - February 12, 2020
February 12, 2020 13:51 - 38 minutesIn Episode Three of Coronavirus Central, we're going to review the daily numbers, take a much closer look at Singapore's situation as a larger example that parallels the issues the cruise ship are facing, explain the difference between mortality rate and case fatality rate and also why lower initial mortality can with a highly infectious virus make it harder to stop, trace, leading to more deaths in the end. An introduction to some US government resources is also shared, as well as informat...
Coronavirus Central - Episode 2 - February 11, 2020
February 12, 2020 01:22 - 38 minutesIn Episode 2 of the Coronavirus Central Podcast, we report the daily statistics, feature an update of the reasons why so many people dispute the official numbers being provided to the WHO by the Chinese Government, offer a closer look at the case of the quarantined cruise ship "Diamond Princess" that now has 135 reported cases, and examine the wider economic implications. A detailed discussion of the dependency of the international consumer market on Chinese pharmaceuticals is considered, ...
Coronavirus Central - Episode 1 - February 10, 2010
February 10, 2020 17:39 - 1 hour - 1 ByteIn Episode One of the Coronavirus Central Podcast, we introduce the purpose of our podcast and how we hope to structure future episodes to provide daily information about breaking news, the latest numbers, relevant studies, on the ground information, and how to prepare. This episode features a basic introduction and background for the outbreak, what the novel coronavirus is, a crash course in the relevant virology, and a few basic preparation. We also look more deeply into the study from t...