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With the WSPUS having stagnated for decades, we see some small signs of progress but they need a target for their campaign.
There is a constant trickle of new contacts being added to the WSPUS database. Its not rocket science to see how or why this is happening. It is by pushing links to the WSM on the social media notably political forums, using the free trial offer of the SS as the “bait”
If we want to to target our campaigning then I suggest this should be a major part of our approach. It is proven to work and I am genuinely perplexed that very few members seem to want to get involved in this
” I have nothing but the fondest memories of my time as a socialist, a feeling not at all affected by the fact that I can no longer agree with what I thought then. I’ll take this opportunity to apologise most sincerely for the intemperance of polemics past, and to wish you every happiness in your endeavours, even if I cannot, I am afraid, wish you any success in the socialist one.”
Fair enough, Stuart, but I I hope that in your efforts to criticise socialism in the future that your fairly and accurately present what socialism is about, nor some gross caricature of it. You know, or should know, enough about the case for socialism to be able to do this
Like others here I am completely dumbfounded by your road-to-Damascus conversion to mainstream capitalist politics. I could sort of understand , though obviously not endorse, your earlier support for Left Unity but this latest move of yours is utterly baffling
Clearly the universe is a more mysterious place than we perhaps allow for….
ZJW – oops sorry I overlooked your post preceding the one I responded to. No, I haven’t come across this text by LLM before – thanks for pointing it out. Its very long and will take time to digest but flicking through it, I noticed some comments asserting that Russia in 1917 was ripe for socialism Really? Lenin himself talked of the subjective and objective preconditions for socialism and very clearly Russia did not meet either. Indeed Lenin repeatedly acknowledged that the vast majority were not socialists in Russia in 1917.
The text seems to argue that a socialist revolution does not start off with an explicit programme for socialism but that this grows out of the struggle for reforms. I think that is a very mechanistic way of looking at things not to mention a case of wishful thinking but I might be misinterpreting the text not having really read it. Perhaps you can correct me if I am wrong
Hi ZJW
Yes it was the same article basically. the reason being the original home of the article , the Common Voice journal, is defunct, I think it succumbed to a virus some years ago.
A central point made in that article and repeated many times elsewhere in our literature, is our clear repudiation of the concept of society-wide central planning (in the sense of a single planning centre for the entire production system) along with our clear need for a system of (non price) feedback to inform production decisions. I recall coming across articles in the SS going back to the 1930s which talked of the need for a multilevel (global/regional/local) polycentric framework of decision-making in socialism. It was in the 1980s primarily through our contact with the Libertarian Alliance that these ideas become much more explicit in the Party literature
What irritated me intensely about Dan and Stuart’s article was their droning on about ‘communism’ and ‘central planning’. You can understand this coming from some fresh-faced naïve Ancap completely unfamiliar with the SPGB. But these comments came from two ex members. Fair enough if they wanted to do a ‘Toby Crowe’ and cut all their ties with revolutionary socialism to embrace the status quo – that’s their choice. But you would at least expect then to have the integrity not to a present such a caricature of the case for communism/socialism and at least make some nodding reference to the kind of arguments referred to above which they could surely not have been unaware of having been members of the SPGB.
But no – their article is like a slap in the face of those who were once their fellow comrades
Talking of using knowledge gained during his time in the Party perhaps Stuart could have researched the subject a little more thoroughly before coming out with his claim that the Bolsheviks attempted to abolish money, collectivise property and centralise planning led to short-term suffering on a huge scale and long-term economic disaster that in the end brought the whole system down
Its a pity he hadn’t read our comrade in the Indian Party, Binay Sarkar’s, comprehensive article on the subject
https://www.academia.edu/24449687/THE_BOLSHEVIKS_AND_THE_ABOLITION_OF_MONEY
Stuart has a wonderful turn of phrase, a literary style to be admired. He made no secret of moving towards a reformist position and defended it, strongly
Yes and to underpin and rationalise his complete severance from revolutionary socialism he has found it convenient to appeal to an arcane theory that purported to demonstrate the impossibility of socialism and therefore the pointlessness of striving to realise socialism. Never mind that the theory is bunkum and based on an utterly absurd theoretical model of socialism – a complete caricature.
Stuart has not become an anarcho-capitalist but he has used a key argument employed by Ancaps to justify his moving away from socialism and his fulsome embrace of bourgeois politics. His whole outlook now reeks of that. He has gone mainstream. That’s his prerogative, of course, but it does illustrate the dangers of reformism. Once you go down that road you will eventually jettison socialism. Sooner or later. And in Stuart’s case sooner than I imagined
If you look at the MoneyWeek page and type in ‘Stuart Watkins’ in the search facility a list of articles that Stuart has written for this publication appears. One of these is
Modern capitalism and the rise of the bullshit job
Lo and behold in the text of the article we find this:
“When asked what we can do about bullshit jobs, Graeber grumbles at the impertinence and stupidity of those who raise the question and waves his hand generally in the direction of giving everyone a ton of money instead. (He halfheartedly proposes a basic income, but his proposal sits at the more unrealistic end of the spectrum of possibilities.) However, as David Ramsay Steele argues powerfully in his 1992 book From Marx to Mises, neglecting the economic details of proposed alternatives is much more than a minor intellectual oversight or foible. It is dangerous.
The Bolsheviks took power in Russia armed to the teeth with analyses of the problems generated by capitalism, but with nothing but the vaguest notions of what they were supposed to put in its place. Their attempt to abolish money, collectivise property and centralise planning led to short-term suffering on a huge scale and long-term economic disaster that in the end brought the whole system down. As Steele says, “all arguments against capitalism fail unless there is some feasible alternative which can do better”.
The basic problem, which Graeber touches on but does not resolve in his book, is to do with value. In any society, resources must be allocated in a more or less efficient manner between the various competing uses to which they might be put. In a market society, the conundrum of how to decide this unfathomably complex issue is delegated to society as a whole. Private ownership of the means of production, free markets in factors of production and consumer goods, and prices perform the role of an all-knowing and invisible hand that solves a vast economic problem that to date no human or computer program has been able to. If there is some other and better way of valuing goods, including our labour, and solving this problem in a better way, we should hear about it and evaluate it pretty carefully before moving to smash up the system that provides us with our living simply because our role in it occasionally bores us.”
Ah, so its our old opponent D R Steele – another ex member – who Stuart invokes in support of his new found moderate bourgeois liberalism no doubt with an eye to the new kind of moderate bourgeois liberal readership he is writing for. And so he he comes up with the same old dumb blinkered either-or dichotomy . Its either the market mechanism or society wide central planning. There is absolutely no conception here of any other alternative..
And his conclusion?:
“As Darren McGarvey argues in his book Poverty Safari, the left wastes a great deal of time critiquing “the system”, and believes it is doing good. More good would be done if they could instead help people give up drinking, smoking and eating rubbish and find something meaningful to do, both within and without their bullshit jobs.”
Sorry but I get the distinct impression the spark has gone from Stuart. He has been successfully co-opted into the business of “manufacturing consent” as Chomsky put it.
How sad. What a miserable end for a once fine socialist
I am not too sure I would entirely agree with Adam’s characterisation of these ex-two members as “defenders of laissez faire capitalism”. They do , after all, talk of ‘market failures’ and the need for state intervention in some instances e,g the coronavirus pandemic.
However, they do also assert that “the case for classical liberalism is based upon some deep and compelling arguments, the force of which has been underestimated by the left. ” These arguments are ‘compelling’ only insofar as strawman arguments come across as superficially compelling and in this case the particular strawman argument put forward by Stuart and Dan is this:
“few advocates of socialism or social democracy these days envisage the kind of centrally planned, entirely non-market communism sought by the Bolsheviks and stringently critiqued by Mises and his fellow Austrian School economist Friedrich Hayek”
I find it astonishing and deeply disappointing that they can come out with utter bilge like this knowing that the organisation to which they once belonged quite explicitly does NOT endorse society-wide central planning, In fact the refutation of Mises’ so called economic calculation argument hinges precisely on the possibility of feedback provided through a self regulating system of stock control which in turn presupposes a polycentric system of planning – not a unicentric system of planning which is what central planning boils down to
Stuart and Dan must surely have been aware of these kinds of arguments that have long been swilling round within the Party yet they seem to be wilfully intent upon presenting a caricature of what socialists stand for. It reminds me of Rothbard’s ludicrous claim that the catastrophic experience of ‘war communism’ shortly after the Bolsheviks came to power demonstrates the impracticality of communism as such. But was ‘war communism’, communism as we understand the term? Not at all. More to the point, even if the Bolsheviks earnestly wanted to implement genuine communism the preconditions for such a society simply did not exist. So of course any attempt to implement communism was therefore bound to “fail”
I dont know quite why these ex-comrades have come to embrace the views they currently hold – a kind of dull middle-of-the-road bourgeois liberalism based on an oh-so-predictable collection of clichés – but I would hazard a guess that in Stuart’s case – I dont know about Dan’s circumstances – that it was probably as a result of his disappointment with the reformist Left Unity organisation he was once enamoured with for a while. (Maybe I am quite mistaken in thinking this in which case I stand to be corrected) I remember him being criticised on this forum for his support for Left Unity so perhaps his current flirtation is a case of being on the rebound. Perhaps he should be invited back to this forum to argue his case
If you dont want to return to revolutionary socialism, then what better way of rationalising this than to big up some arcane theory put forward by some obscure Baron in the early 20th century purporting to demonstrate the impossibility of “socialism” , something which he imagined would operate on the “Fuhrer principle”. That says it all, really. Von Mises really didn’t have much of a clue about socialism – at least now as we understand it – and far from finding his arguments “compelling” I consider them to be quite misleading and unconvincing
This might be of interest. Goats can play a very important role in the ecology of southern Spain as well as providing goat cheese. The article should automatically translate into English
This should clinch the argument that the virus scare is overblown and basically just a conspiracy to assert ruling class hegemony (I can think of far more effective ways of doing that than closing down businesses and running up huge financial losses)
“Number of excess deaths in UK since coronavirus outbreak began nears 60,000
Tuesday’s figures from the Office for National Statistics, showing 53,960 excess deaths in England and Wales between March 21 and May 15 2020, follow figures last week showing the equivalent numbers for Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The National Records of Scotland found there were 4,434 excess deaths in Scotland between March 23 and May 17, while the Northern Ireland Statistics & Research Agency put the figure for Northern Ireland at 834 excess deaths between March 21 and May 15.
Together, this means the total number of excess deaths in the UK across this period now stands at 59,228.
All figures are based on death registrations.”
Sounds like a partial rehash of his 1993 book Towards a New Socialism….
Cockshott’s arguments in favour of labour time accounting, central planning and calling the Soviet Union “socialist” are very weak. Its a pity because he has done some useful work on the labour theory of value but this undermines his credibility in that area
How can we control subsequent surges of Covid-19 without accurate testing? How can we find plasma donors who have been infected, if the antibody testing is similarly shoddy as the tests for acute infection? Medscape article on the problem follows.***************************************COVID-19 Test Results: Don’t Discount Clinical Intuition
<p class=”yiv6380061908ydpe499e55ameta-author”>Heather Boerner</p>
<p class=”yiv6380061908ydpe499e55ameta-date”>May 16, 2020</p>
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center.Recently, a patient arrived at the UC San Diego Health medical center with what are now classic symptoms of COVID-19: a history of coughs, pneumonia, and severe respiratory distress that required immediate intubation.
What he didn’t have was a positive SARS-CoV-2 test — neither the first nor the second time clinicians swabbed the back of his throat. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19.
“The two negative tests didn’t convince anybody,” said Davey Smith, MD, a virologist and chief of the division of infectious diseases and global public health at UC San Diego School of Medicine. It was only on the third test, when they sampled fluid from a bronchial wash, that they were able to find the virus.
Smith’s patient is not alone. Though almost all experts agree that broad testing for SARS-CoV-2 will be critical to understanding, containing, and eventually treating COVID-19, the effort is hampered by limitations of current tests.
The tests today, experts say, are so new that it’s unclear how reliable they are. Anecdotally, clinicians report false negative rates of anywhere from 2% to 30%, depending on what part of the body is being tested and what means they are using to get a sample, as well as epidemiological and clinical factors.
And the US Food and Drug Administration issued an alert earlier this week warning of false negatives with one of the most commonly used tests, Abbott Labs’ ID NOW rapid test for COVID-19.
Data published earlier this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine show that test accuracy varies widely over the course of the disease in a mixed population of inpatients and outpatients. On the day symptoms appear, the median false negative rate was 38%. That figure dropped to 20% on the third day after symptom onset, but climbed again to 66% about 2 weeks later.
But test results should only be part of the picture. The key is clinical suspicion informed by all the above factors, said Joshua Metlay, MD, PhD, chief of the division of internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and coauthor of a series of articles on clinical decision-making in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
“How we treat patients is going to depend on understanding this concept,” Metlay told Medscape Medical News. “It isn’t one number. It’s actually much more complicated and very nuanced.” If clinicians don’t understand that, he added, “We’re really going to make mistakes about how to use all these negative tests.”
<b>When Hope Outstrips Reason</b>
A positive SARS-CoV-2 test sets off a cascade of actions, in and out of clinical settings: In patients with symptoms, it triggers a set of protocols, as recommended by the National Institutes of Health and individual hospitals, around use of personal protective equipment (PPE) for staff, whether patients are placed in rooms with others or singly, and specific treatment choices, such as which ventilator protocol to use. By contrast, a negative test, in an ideal situation, should lead a clinician to keep looking for a causative agent or underlying problem. Quality care, in other words, relies on accurate diagnosis.
In patients without symptoms, a positive test means suggesting quarantine and isolation for two weeks, said Colin West, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and biostatistics at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
But because of the relatively high rate of false negatives, a negative test in an asymptomatic person can’t confer the kind of relief patients, the public, or policymakers would like it to, West said.
“People can’t relax their physical distancing, their handwashing, their surface hygiene, their mask-wearing” even with a negative test, he said, because they still could be carrying the virus.
“When hope outstrips reason, we sometimes prematurely pin our hopes on tests that aren’t as good as we want them to be,” said West, who wrote a perspective for Mayo Clinic Proceedings warning about the dangers of false negatives. “Smart clinicians all around the country are not believing the test results when their clinical suspicion is high enough.”
<b>Calculating Clinical Suspicion</b>
With false negative rates ranging from 3.2% in a cohort of seriously ill COVID-19 inpatients in New York City, to 66% in the mixed population in the Annals of Internal Medicine study, it’s understandable that clinicians might be skeptical of the results in front of them.
The first thing to understand, Metlay said, is that the sensitivity of the test isn’t the same as the rate of false negatives. Sensitivity only describes the absolute ability of a given test to detect SARS-CoV-2 when it’s present.
A false negative is a combination of the accuracy of the test itself and its handling, along with clinical symptomology, local epidemiology, and the individual behavior of the person in front of you.
“This is why people don’t usually report false negative rates as one number — because that number can only be calculated or interpreted in the context of the group that you’re talking about,” Metlay said. “Two hospitals could report completely different false negative rates and that’s completely reasonable. Even within the same hospital, the false negative rate in the clinic could be different than the false negative rate in the emergency room.”
That is to say, people showing up with symptoms in an emergency department should be met with a higher pre-test probability of having COVID-19 than well people who show up for drive-through testing, he said.
The same holds true for the background rate of COVID-19 in a community.
“If you get into a community where almost no one is infected and you tested everybody, your false-negative rates are going to be very low, because almost everybody there is negative,” he said. In Boston, where Metlay practices, the community rates of COVID-19 are substantial, so even those with mild symptoms might be met with higher suspicion of having SARS-CoV-2. And that’s even before the patient opens their mouth and explains where they’ve been or who they’ve been in contact with.
This helps explain why Rajesh Gandhi, MD, Metlay’s colleague at Mass General, said the inpatient false negative rate there is between 2% and 3%, while Smith from UC San Diego reported that their false negative rates are no more than 10% — or that unpublished data first reported by NPR found that the most commonly used, fastest turnaround tests also churned out 15% false negatives.
<b>No Gold Standard</b>
Another factor in all of this are the tests themselves. Back in March, Chinese researchers at Central South University in Changsha, Hunan province, lamented that “existing PCR methods have very good specificity but low sensitivity, meaning that negative test results cannot exclude the presence of SARS-CoV-2.”
PCR stands for polymerase chain reaction, a means of testing for viral genetic material, currently most commonly used in a nasopharyngeal swab.
But we don’t know how inaccurate the tests actually are, said Stephen Rawlings, MD, PhD, an infectious disease fellow at UC San Diego’s Center for AIDS Research, who has been helping to validate RT-PCR tests for SARS-CoV-2 since repatriated Americans were held in isolation at military bases starting in March.
For one thing, we have nothing to compare current tests with.
“To truly determine false negatives, you need a gold standard test, which is essentially as close to perfect as we can get,” Rawlings said. “But there just isn’t one yet for coronavirus.”
For another, the studies that have been done on the accuracy of the tests themselves are filled with flaws, said Mayo Clinic’s West.
Sensitivity estimates are usually based on testing the tests against people who they already know have COVID-19. But that’s a bias — you know what you’re looking for, West said. Without control groups or blinded testing, it’s impossible to get “good information about where these imperfections lie, or even the magnitude of those imperfections,” said West, who conducted a tweetorial on how to understand the accuracy of current RT-PCR tests.
A recent non-peer reviewed preprint meta-analysis of five COVID-19 studies comprising 957 patients found that the underlying poor quality of data made it impossible to judge how effective the tests in the nation’s labs are at all.
“We’re trying to have informed conversations about how good are these tests, and how helpful are they in ruling in or ruling out diagnosis, when the source literature is so poor,” West said.
This is where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should step in, according to UCSD’s Smith. Local labs are doing their best to validate tests on their own, but if they could send their results in a blinded way to the CDC, he’d have a lot more confidence in every test.
“We really need these panels to help with the quality assurance internally,” Smith said. “It’s not about the nasal swabs or not. It’s about the potential sources of error within the lab.”
<b>Human Error and Biological Process</b>
Now add in the human piece of gathering, transporting, and reading an RT-PCR test, said Daniel Griffin, MD, PhD, an infectious disease physician and associate research scientist in the department of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at Columbia University in New York City.
“Basically, I tell my patients that unless you feel like they were trying to biopsy your brain, it wasn’t done correctly,” he said. And the less well done the test, the less likely the results will be reliable.
But even if all that is correct, there’s one more hurdle: What part of the body should be sampled and at what point in the illness? A viewpoint published in JAMA earlier this month synthesized known data on the accuracy of different tests at different points in the disease process.
For instance, it shows that within the first week of exposure before symptoms and in the first week of symptoms, nasopharyngeal swabs are most accurate. But by the end of week 2 of symptoms, bronchoalveolar lavage/sputum is most accurate.
This conforms to what clinicians report anecdotally. The number of copies of the virus in the nose and pharynx is highest in the early days infection, just like the flu, said Columbia University’s Griffin. And that may mean the RT-PCR tests of the nose and pharynx work best in the first few days of infection — when patients still have mild or moderate symptoms.
“If you do the test that first day or so when you’re sick, you’re going to have pretty good sensitivity” with nasopharyngeal swabs, said Griffin, who often provides COVID-19 updates on the podcast “This Week in Virology.”
“The interesting thing is, when people get admitted to the hospital, now they’ve been feeling crummy for a week or more,” he said. “Now it’s day 13 or day 14, and now the virus is actually starting to get to a lower level of activity” in the upper respiratory tract.
And that means, said Griffin, “there’s not as much virus around” the nose and pharynx to test.
That’s when UC San Diego’s Rawlings said they’ve found that passing a catheter through the tracheal tube of someone who’s already intubated can “often find [the virus] there at very high levels.”
This may explain the phenomenon that Smith described, as well as what Neera Ahuja, MD, of Stanford University, said in a “Medicine and the Machine” podcast recently, that “this virus actually moves from proximal upper airway nasal-pharyngeal down to the lower lungs.”
“If you catch it in a stage where it’s already progressed, you may have a false negative,” she said.
<b>Using Clinical Judgment</b>
It’s a lot to take in for a single clinician interpreting a single test result. The good news is that clinicians are literally trained for this, said Carlos del Rio, MD, of Emory University and coauthor with Gandhi of a recent article on mild or moderate COVID-19.
“We as clinicians use our brains,” he said. “We don’t say, ‘Oh the person doesn’t have the disease’ — we use the test in the context of our clinical expertise.”
So clinicians should ask: Are the patients sick themselves? What are their symptoms? Have they traveled to or from COVID-19-endemic areas recently? Have they been in touch with someone they know has COVID-19? Have they been practicing physical distancing, mask-wearing, and other protective behaviors? said Metlay.
They may even want to consider other questions, said Gregorio Millett, MPH, vice president and director of public policy at the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR). Millett and colleagues have unpublished data showing that although disproportionately black counties account for just 22% of US counties overall, they make up 52% of counties with COVID-19 cases and 58% of counties with COVID-19 deaths. In those communities, lack of insurance and living in crowded households were associated with increased risk for acquiring COVID-19 — opening another potential data point to consider in those communities.
The bottom line is that “nobody can integrate all this math in their head every single time” they see a patient, Metlay said. Still, keeping all these factors in mind will help clinicians look at that negative result with clear eyes.
“This,” he said, “is what helps people not get tricked by these tests.”
A third batch of links covering nearly every conceivable aspect of the coronavirus pandemic which peeps here can use for research purposes , writing articles etc
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/05/13/whos-in-a-catch-22/
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/coronavirus-pandemic-who-covid19-years-vaccine-a4439981.html
https://eand.co/the-american-economy-is-imploding-and-america-is-too-e998d3cfb1d9
https://areomagazine.com/2020/05/11/boris-johnson-and-the-language-of-lockdown/
https://gen.medium.com/the-harsh-future-of-american-cities-7263da52fd1f
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/05/07/two-truths-from-the-pandemic-no-one-is-mentioning/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/05/07/covid-19-and-the-high-cost-of-dying/
https://gen.medium.com/the-harsh-future-of-american-cities-7263da52fd1f
Hi AllHere are some of the many links I have been collecting on various aspects of the the coronavirus pandemic . Comrades might find them of some use for articles pamphlets. leaflets etc.I have not organised the links under any particular categories but they cover a multitudes of aspects. Some of the links are particularly interesting from a socialist standpointRegardsRobin__________________________________________________- http://chuangcn.org/2020/02/social-contagion/
- https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coronavirus/halt-destruction-of-nature-or-suffer-even-worse-pandemics-say-world-s-top-scientists/ar-BB13g3zY?ocid=msedgntp
- https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/medical/mysteries-about-covid-19-that-science-has-yet-to-solve/ss-BB13bWvk?ocid=msedgntp#image=25
- https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-02-04/Expert-explains-why-Hubei-has-higher-mortality-rate-of-coronavirus-NNKmnf0Boc/index.html?utm_source=bluef&utm_medium=CgtnWebsiteCampaign&utm_campaign=Coronavirus&dicbo=v1-ba42493f3ba9f828a2acd40b6c482d80-00f192aff9b9584c961b1d5e1d5b306374-hfsdsmlfhfrgmljygzsweljuga3daljygm4toljygq3gimbyhbsdiodcgu
- https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coronavirus/up-to-6-million-uk-residents-may-have-already-had-coronavirus-nhs-adviser-says/ar-BB13dWbC?ocid=msedgntp
- https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/reasons-for-hope-the-drugs-tests-and-tactics-that-may-conquer-coronavirus/ar-BB139Xlz?ocid=msedgntp
- https://www.ft.com/content/6bd88b7d-3386-4543-b2e9-0d5c6fac846c<
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/26/5g-coronavirus-and-contagious-superstition?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR0oI7JejtYr0Us2ML2gp6P4gMtCUWWVNOoDNowHSFr_2mWxgJG7Np3O_7M
- https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/this-government-is-lucky-coronavirus-quiets-global-protest-movements/ar-BB134JPZ?ocid=msedgntp
- https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coronavirus/what-the-great-pandemic-novels-teach-us/ar-BB13801J?ocid=msedgntp
- https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coronavirus/opinions-suing-china-over-the-coronavirus-won-t-help-here-s-what-can-work/ar-BB137Jy6?ocid=msedgntp
- https://medium.com/the-atlantic/the-real-reason-to-wear-a-mask-e6405abbc484
- https://medium.com/@drhassaballa/what-ive-learned-treating-patients-suffering-from-covid-19-41adc282e973
- https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coronavirus/they-are-starving-us-millions-in-india-facing-hunger-during-lockdown/ar-BB13ctbU?ocid=msedgntp
- https://medium.com/@ASlavitt/the-coronavirus-crisis-will-force-us-to-reconsider-universal-health-care-d5e26380e744
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/25/far-right-hijack-coronavirus-crisis-to-push-agenda-and-boost-support?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR0s300XS3kPWIijh2On2lQWc7HSCLtbmz_ZQszShoQfHLW9JAsdbxBzrg0
- https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/antibody-surveys-suggesting-vast-undercount-coronavirus-infections-may-be-unreliable
- https://www.zerohedge.com/health/data-stop-panic-end-total-isolation
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/23/coronavirus-antibody-studies-california-stanford
- https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaws-in-stanford-study-of-coronavirus-prevalence/
- https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/04/coronavirus-new-stanford-research-reveals-if-youve-been-exposed/
- https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/indepth/poland-and-hungary-use-coronavirus-to-punish-opposition/ar-BB134OsT?ocid=msedgntp
- https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coronavirus/is-comparing-covid-19-death-rates-across-europe-helpful/ar-BB1396Xz?ocid=msedgntp
- https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coronavirus/revealed-how-coronavirus-attacks-your-veins-heart-brain-and-blood-as-well-as-lungs/ar-BB137Qmg?ocid=msedgdhp<
- https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coronavirus/coronavirus-detected-on-particles-of-air-pollution/ar-BB139bVG?ocid=msedgdhp
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- https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coronavirus/the-meat-we-eat-is-a-pandemic-risk-too/ar-BB1331PQ?ocid=msedgntp
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