'With the current level of action, it is projected that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) will lead to significantly higher healthcare costs, with annual expenses for treating resistant bacterial infections estimated to reach US $412 billion worldwide.'

amrleaders.org/resources/m/it…

There are some people out there who remain convinced that Covid is the doom that will destroy us all (it's not) whilst ignoring antimicrobial resistance (which might)

So does anyone know why Singapore have done so badly?

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Here are the all nations estimate tables updated to include these 3 countries, for both 2020-22 and also 2020-23 with the projections.

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Since there is an overall death number available for Japan 2023 I can make a fairly decent stab at their 2023 ASMR.

I simply apply the % difference in total deaths from 2023 to 2022 to each age band's 2022 raw death total to make 2023.

Projection/estimate of ~12% for 2023.

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Three more countries to add to my excess Age Standardised Mortality ( ASMR ) estimates:

#Japan and #Taiwan for 2020-22 and #Singapore 2020-23.

Asian countries like these saw no excess in 2020, but have clearly had a fair amount since then.

( repost: corrected thread )

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Since the start of the pandemic, some scientists have repeatedly misled or withheld key info from the public on #OriginOfCovid

Even the chief editor of Science said he had argued against lab leak while unaware of circumstantial evidence that was only obtained by FOIA recently.

The Hindu–Arabic numeral system was invented between the I and IV centuries by Indian mathematicians. The system was adopted in Arabic mathematics by the IX century more widely known through the writings in Arabic of the Persian mathematician Al-Khwārizmī

Inappropriate prescribing contributes to high antibiotic exposure in young children in Australia:
bit.ly/3U3X2vA

'At least two-thirds of children were prescribed antibiotics in the first 2y of life, and more than a quarter of these exposures may have been unnecessary.'

Health psychology posits that abilities to cope are better & stronger motivators of protection (ris.utwente.nl/ws/portalfiles…).

We provide a strong test of fear vs coping appraisals as correlates of actual protection during a major health crisis: Reduced COVID-19 infections. 3/14

Finland’s center-left government began planning to reopen schools four years ago in April 2020.

“She noted that schools will not be permitted to continue organising remote classes once classrooms open again, meaning that students will not be allowed to stay home to complete the

To find #OriginOfCovid we need to operate from an established list of facts.

This is not helped by the lack of access to Wuhan.

However, investigations by US gov could & should have thoroughly examined what US scientists knew of coronavirus work in Wuhan, especially in 2019.

The lab leak #OriginOfCovid theory is simple.

Scientists studied a dangerous virus at low biosafety.
It leaked.

The continued lack of investigation + the dishonesty of scientists who knew of the risky work in Wuhan is driving distrust in science & actual conspiracy theories.

Amazing that anyone could conclude that declining fertility rates in Australia are due to COVID infections. Yes there are implications from COVID but how this shows they're solely due to COVID is beyond me.

(2013) Dr. Ralph Baric Describes How Coronaviruses w/ Pandemic Potential Can Be Engineered for Under $500

'The other way to do it even more cheaply is to actually clone out the spike genes and make, in essence, recombinants where you drop the spike gene of different bat

nature.com/articles/s4156…

Interesting preprint from Denmark on whether fear mongering during the pandemic reduced covid cases during the pandemic

Spoiler: No it didn’t

“results suggests that a continued focus on securing the felt ability to cope is key”

Interesting data from a recent paper studying the impact of the COVID vaccine on death rates in NSW.

And the much-derided “strollout” may inadvertently have saved lives too as immunity was higher than it would have been when the Omicron wave hit.
smh.com.au/national/nsw/h…