With reports that chloroquine - an EXISTING anti-malarial - and/or its derivatives, in combination with an antimicrobial, has had a 100% success rate at curing COVID-19 means we have lots of hope now! And the results by French researchers looks real & robust for a quick study. This is NOT a reason to stop the …
Continue reading A COVID-19 cure? Even more reason to lockdown
The US & UK have the highest spread rates (ie daily % increase of cases) out of the most infected countries. And Spain is re-spiking & Australia is not much better. Everyone must isolate as much as possible. If you CAN take your kids out of school do. But keep them away from grandparents. Fortunately …
Continue reading US & UK missed the opportunity to have low Covid19 numbers
Our spread rate is no better than that of Spain, France & Germany, at about 25% increase per day. It's time to isolate! It's the only way to stop it. This thing, unchecked, is as bad as between one and five World War IIs! We must all get serious about isolation, working from home and …
With the announcement that the UK is going to allow their nation to reach '60% herd immunity' - which means let as many under the age of 70 that can be infected . . get infected - let's see what that technical threshold means. See the table above. An unchecked Covid19 means 300,000 under age …
Continue reading Unchecked, Covid19 is equal to between 1-5 World War IIs
Some good and bad news today as usual. Australia is as yesterday. Probably lost ability to nip it totally. We'll be bunkering down at home by mid-week to next weekend IMO. France, Germany & even the US seem to have made progress although time will tell as this is only one day of, nevertheless, significant …
Continue reading The Covid19 update with the data. SUNDAY update.
Well, here's a Covid19 Coronavirus summary table I put together - and will update daily - because I couldn't find it anywhere else. It tracks the recent daily % increases in cases. From my 24 months in pandemic planning - at University of Melbourne's Global Health Department - I feel this is the key data …
Continue reading Possibly the most useful Coronavirus daily summary
With China, South Korea and Italy in full on pandemics, and most of the rest of the world preparing for it, which companies are making Coronavirus vaccines? These timely biotechs include: Novavax (NVAX)Gilead (GILD)Moderna (MRNA)Invio (INO) and have seen hikes of up to 50% in their stock prices. The question is whether they can make …
Continue reading Which biotechs are making Coronavirus vaccines?
In between my stint in particle physics and career in AI, I enjoyed 12 years in drug design at CSIRO (Australia's Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization) and I remember a fascinating piece of work which came out at that time and got talked around the lab coffee room for a few weeks. It was …
Continue reading Biggest new thing in Biotech? Maybe Fragment-Based Drug Design.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.Buckminster Fuller Sometimes I feel that the world has gone mad. When technologists and futurists and investors like you and me can see the solutions starring us in the face . . and nobody …
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