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- Wow. Vitamin D deficiency may cause 40% of respiratory deaths in older people Sat, 22 Aug 20, 5:43amIt’s really quite a scandal. Missing out on the Sunshine Vitamin?
- Death tolls could be 60% higher than official numbers Thu, 30 Apr 20, 1:44amMortality rates show that this is a medical situation we have not seen since WWII All statistics are suspect but some numbers still tell us something important...
- Perhaps solve the other pandemic: Vitamin D deficiency — to help beat Coronavirus? Thu, 9 Apr 20, 3:22amMissing out on the Sunshine Vitamin? We’re throwing billions at Coronavirus but missing cheap wins. After masks and soap, the next bargain to reduce the impact of coronavirus is Vitamin D supplements. Vitamin D deficiency...
- Strap Yourself in: just three weeks from 3 patients to a hospital system on brink of collapse. 12% need intensive care. Thu, 12 Mar 20, 3:54pmGet out of the way of this virus. Could Italy be suffering from a different and nastier strain? Figures from South Korea and the Diamond Princess may not be a good guide to what’s happening in Italy and Iran. There...
- Doc explains how Coronavirus kills. Jo points out obvious: Stop the Flights or Close the schools, lockdown everyone Sun, 1 Mar 20, 3:38pmFun subject of the day: How Coronavirus kills No seriously, this is matter-of-fact, youtube-at-its-best, concise, cartoony, and smart. Think of doctors as Body-Engineers. The problem to solve today Engineer-readers —...
- Fun subject of the day: How Coronavirus kills No seriously, this is matter-of-fact, youtube-at-its-best, concise, cartoony, and smart. Think of doctors as Body-Engineers, the problem to solve today, is how to keep blood supply...
- But it’s good for the renewables religion: Electricity doubles, cold deaths up one third Mon, 1 Jul 19, 2:16pmProgress? Australia has more fashionable energy but less ability to protect elders from the cold Deaths in elderly folk from hypothermia or cold related conditions are up 34% in last ten years...
- Climate disasters are less costly, less deadly, and corporate warnings are just $1T of hot air Fri, 7 Jun 19, 8:07pmHitting the presses today, the vacuous news that lots of companies picked huge numbers out of the air using broken models to guess hyperbolic climate losses coming in the next five years, counter to all the trends for the...
- We need to protect our health system from Climate-change-doctors Tue, 16 Apr 19, 7:27pmDoctors are at it again trying to scare people about “climate change”. But all around the world, in every study in every city humans die more from the cold than they do from the heat (and by six to 20 times more)....
- Despite record heat, six times as many people die of cold in Australia not heat Sat, 20 Oct 18, 6:06amAustralia has had the hottest temperatures for a thousand years (according to some). We’ve “shattered records” yet even so, at the peak of this hot era — six times as many Australians were felled by...
- Airconditioners save 20,000 lives in USA each year Fri, 21 Sep 18, 4:58amOver the last century there was a remarkable decline in deaths due to hot days and heatwaves. (Not that the media seem keen to say so). Mortality on a hot day declined by fully 75% in the decades after 1960 when air conditioners...
- As it got hotter in Spain, less people died. Thank air conditioning and electricity. Fri, 27 Jul 18, 9:53pmCheap energy might save more lives than expensive “climate-changey” energy? Researchers looked at 47 major cities in Spain, from 1980 to 2015 and checked 554,491 deaths...
- Deadly winter kills 20,000 more British than usual — if only CO2 caused more warming Mon, 9 Apr 18, 5:32pmThe world has record high CO2 levels, which supposedly warms us in winter but apparently not as well as cheap electricity does. As the long winter is set to drag on, Brits are being advised to heat one room as well as they...
- Last winter 9,000 more British pensioners died than usual — how many were due to high heating costs? Tue, 28 Nov 17, 6:21pmHigher electricity costs mean more people turn off their heaters There’s a big freeze coming to Britain with minus 12C temperatures possible in the next three weeks...
- How many people may have died due to Volkswagen’s emissions cheating? Wed, 30 Sep 15, 8:00pmPollution can kill, there’s no disputing that fact. So, if pollution kills, how many people might have died as a result of the additional pollutants emitted by Volkswagen vehicles equipped with software to cheat on emissions...