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Questions tagged [covid-19]

For questions regarding the coronavirus disease and its causes called COVID-19 by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The WHO say the disease is caused by a virus that is itself called SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) but also known as the 2019 Novel Coronavirus, 2019-nCov, the Wuhan Coronavirus and "the Corona virus".

For more information about the outbreak see Wikipedia. For more information about the naming, see the WHO Technical Guidance.

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Why is the estimated fatality rate of the 2019-nCoV virus so low?

I have seen multiple sources claiming that the fatality rate of the 2019-nCoV virus is around 2% to 10%. At the same time, as of February 3rd 2020, 362 patients were reported to have died from the virus, while only 523 have recovered. [1] Simple…
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Is Sputnik V the first registered vaccine against COVID-19?

Sputnik V vaccine's official website claims that their product is the first registered against the disease. Sputnik V is the world’s first registered vaccine based on a well-studied human adenoviral vector-based platform.
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Could a SARS-CoV-2 variant with increased transmissibility lead to more deaths than a variant with increased Case Fatality Ratio?

A January 1, 2021 article by Zeynep Tufekci reported in The Atlantic talks of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 which causes COVID-19. It states: A more transmissible variant of COVID-19 is a potential catastrophe in and of itself. If anything, given the…
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Can the coronavirus be transmitted in sea water?

Claims have been made that simply being in sea water near a beach exposes you to the possibility of COVOD-19 infection: In a Los Angeles Times interview early last week, [Kim] Prather was quoted as saying, “I wouldn’t go in the water if you paid…
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Could the COVID-19 mortality rate be way lower than we think, implying vastly more cases?

I was analyzing some of the data surrounding COVID-19, and was looking at the vastly different mortality rates (calculated as deaths / total cases * 100). While there are probably many factors influencing differing mortality rates (age mainly),…
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Which data are correct for the number of SARS-CoV2 positive tests in France on April 4?

The data published by the John Hopkins University report a sharp spike in new detected cases of SARS-CoV2 infections in France for two days ago (April 4), with 25000 new people tested positive in one day, a number that is an order of magnitude…
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Are you at increased risk of complications when receiving a vaccine shot/booster after you have had a symptomatic infection of Covid?

Someone has told me that there is a study/studies that exist that showed that getting a vaccine booster after having a symptomatic infection of covid, increases your risk for complications. I have searched through google and found nothing. Does this…
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Is a strain of COVID-19 from Vietnam 'airborne' and 'dangerous'?

A combination of the so-called Indian variant and UK variant of Covid-19 with rapid airborne transmission has been discovered in Vietnam. Thethaiger.com On the 1st of June it was reported that the surge of Covid-19 cases in Vietnam was due to what…
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Do COVID-19 vaccines cause myocarditis in younger men at a rate higher than the virus?

Dr Keith Moran is a practising physician and consultant in internal medicine with a Youtube Channel discussing medicine. In May 2023, he posted a video talking about the risks of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) from COVID-19…
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Was the testing of Covid-19 vaccines "rushed" or "unprecedented"?

Recently, a tweet was made by a Canadian politician, containing a video of a Canadian Member of Parliament, Anthony Housefather, who made some fairly outrageous claims regarding the production of Covid-19 vaccines. Among those claims are the…
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How effective are face masks?

Actually, all the countries worldwide are discussing policies about face masks. Masks were, up to now, mainly used by surgeons, and now, all medical workers are working with masks. In Switzerland, my country, face masks are now mandatory in public…
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Have luxury stores in New York City boarded up, or hired security guards who weren't there before?

In this May 22 2020 article, Nouriel Roubini (BA Bocconi University 1982, PhD Harvard 1988) proclaimed: You’re going to start having food riots soon enough. Look at the luxury stores in New York. They’ve either boarded them up or emptied their…
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Did the sailor from USS Theodore Roosevelt die from Covid-19?

A sailor who was serving aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier has become the first on the ship to die from Covid-19, the US Navy announced. BBC News 13 April 2020 This seems reasonable until you read farther into the article and see…
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Does this graph show that there was an increase in GoFundMe campaigns relating to sudden deaths at the same time as the Pfizer vaccine was authorised?

Does this graph show that there has been an increase in the number of GoFundMe campaigns relating to sudden deaths, starting at the same time as the authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in the United States. This is a preliminary…
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Does the Covid-19 vaccine create anti-bodies that out-compete your natural broad spectrum anti-bodies?

Geert Vanden Bossche, who at one point advocated some form of "universal vaccines", has said that the Covid-19 vaccine makes your body create antibodies to fight only covid, rather than the broad spectrum antibodies it normally does, so by being…
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