Science and Conservation Covid

Have you been bullied into health? Fear, quackery and Covid

So here we are with our modern-day wonder, the internet – where even with a smartphone, you can search for and read the latest scientific research on a host of topics, including diseases like Covid. And what do we have?…

We’ve learned a lot about Covid, even developing vaccines. Yet Covid remains an issue, no matter how much we might wish it gone.

Since early in the pandemic, I’ve been seeing scientists arguing Covid is airborne, even with hashtag #covidisairborne – including to counter notions it is spread by droplets [short range], which seem to be based on very old notions. Important if…

Evidence is snowballing that Long Covid is also a serious issue, even affecting people in whom the disease initially appeared mild.

Maybe humans tweaked bat coronaviruses in gain of function experiments, inadvertently creating Covid thro lab leak.

Covid is airborne, which means that much as unprotected sex is a risk for HIV, unprotected breathing might result in Covid.

Some of the science showing Covid including Omicron is a huge issue; and one that looks set to be with us a long time.

The disinfo downplaying Covid is often from rightwing, mainly money-minded folks who perhaps don't care too much about actual people.

Science can provide some insights into what may happen with Covid, along with ways to limit its impacts.

Covid virulence, vaccines and variants

[Written for South China Morning Post on 6 January 2021] In January last year, as reports were emerging of the new coronavirus being detected outside mainland China – including in Hong Kong, I wrote a column that quietly suggested, “It can…