Many on this list (particularly those subjected to UK media) may be interested in a new site taking aim at (unfortunately) popular misconmceptions about COVID-19. The address is https://www.covidfaq.co/.
This site provides access to comprehensive evidence regarding the following claims about the effects of Covid-19 (all of them untrue, according to the evidence):
1. 99.5% survive Covid - we're overreacting
2. Covid is only a problem for the elderly and vulnerable
3. It's only as deadly as the flu
4. 91% of Covid 'cases' are false positives. This is a Casedemic
5. There are no excess deaths
6. People are dying ***with*** Covid, but not *of* Covid
Links to the evidence countering these claims are given on the home page ( https://www.covidfaq.co/ ).
In addition (and this is making waves in the UK), the site specifically addresses the statements of specific individuals who have been spreading the above claims - an interesting attempt to challenge misinformation at the source.
Chris
Chris Zielinski
chris@chriszielinski.com
Blogs: http://ziggytheblue.wordpress.com and http://ziggytheblue.tumblr.com
Research publications: http://www.researchgate.net
HIFA profile: Chris Zielinski: As a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Global Health, Chris leads the Partnerships in Health Information (Phi) programme at the University of Winchester. Formerly an NGO, Phi supports knowledge development and brokers healthcare information exchanges of all kinds. Chris has held senior positions in publishing and knowledge management with WHO in Brazzaville, Geneva, Cairo and New Delhi, with FAO in Rome, ILO in Geneva, and UNIDO in Vienna. Chris also spent three years in London as Chief Executive of the Authors Licensing and Collecting Society. He was the founder of the ExtraMED project (Third World biomedical journals on CD-ROM), and managed the Gates Foundation-supported Health Information Resource Centres project. He served on WHO’s Ethical Review Committee, and was an originator of the African Health Observatory. Chris has been a director of the World Association of Medical Editors, UK Copyright Licensing Agency, Educational Recording Agency, and International Association of Audiovisual Writers and Directors. He has served on the boards of several NGOs and ethics groupings (information and computer ethics and bioethics). UK-based, he is also building houses in Zambia. chris AT chriszielinski.com
His publications are at www.ResearchGate.net and https://winchester.academia.edu/ChrisZielinski/ and his blogs are http://ziggytheblue.wordrpress.com and https://www.tumblr.com/blog/ziggytheblue
