critical thresholds – being human sometimes is difficult…
Dear readers, Do you feel the same? Do you feel a bit tired of the current situation and the ‘pandemic’ topic, since it is affecting all everyday activities? Take a break! We took a few days off and spent time in the sun in our garden. It was wonderful. Now, we feel better, our batteries […]
German statements around COVID-19 and their credibility…
… SAJO’s scientific evaluation and correction of dubious statements … The current status of the pandemic: Globally, as of September 17, 2020, we are counting close to 30 million infected persons, and almost 950,000 deaths. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html The global mortality based on confirmed cases is around 3.15 %. In Germany, close to 270 000 cases have […]
SAJO’s indian summer potpourri
Indian summer has arrived – preparations for the fall – a seasonal update Pandemic status: Globally there are more than 290,000 counted new infections per day. Currently, there have been close to 28 million cases. See Johns Hopkins University: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html Dear Readers, Finally, Indian summer has arrived, we are expecting a temperature hike and are […]
SARS-CoV-2 – a black swan
… a pandemic simply resulting from selection pressure and chance … It is part of human nature that many of us cannot imagine unpredictable things to happen – be it good or bad incidents. A ‘black swan’ is a highly improbable but not impossible event. This event is unpredictable and might have momentous consequences in […]
country-wide adjustments of the coronavirus-related measures in GERMANY
Since our most recent blog post is dealing with a political issue specifically in Germany, we refrained from translating it. If interested, you may find it on: https://www.sajo-innovation.de/blog/de/bundesweite-justierungen-der-coronavirus-massnahmen/ Yours, Sabine and Jörg SAJO – für eine gesunde und bessere Zukunft! Informations about newest scientific findings to COVID-19: https://www.sajo-innovation.de/blog/summer-2020-in-germany/ Informations to the development of the pandemic […]
for GERMANY: pandemic level ORANGE
On grounds of growing infection numbers, an appeal to all of you: Adjustments are necessary, otherwise we shall lose! Dear readers, We are accompanying you through this pandemic since February. We are giving advice, we are informing you, we are coming along, and we are repeating ourselves when necessary. Please read this post attentively. We […]
assessment of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic – treatment options – consequences
by Sabine Breun and Joerg Baumann, August 10, 2020 To-date 20,000,000 SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals have been recorded globally, with an unknown number of unrecorded cases. A pandemic always is subject to an unpredictable development and dynamics. Based on experience, virologists and epidemiologists may extrapolate certain dynamics of a pandemic, which is depending on the pathogen […]
summer reading 2020
… in the garden, in front of the tent or the camper, or on the beach … … recommended distance included – virus free zone … My summer reading 2020 is “The Great Influenza” (2004) by John M. Barry. The author is a journalist, who covers the horrendous events of the 1918 Spanish Flu in […]
summertime 2020: music mesmerizes – science captivates
… and both unite the people of the world! If you listen to Maria Callas singing the Norma, or the Carmen by Julia Migenes, or the arias of La Bohème sung by Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon, or other classical pieces by excellent musicians and orchestras, you will understand what I mean. Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, […]
causality or correlation – wishful thinking in science
Satire and tragedy in science …. an example. Please believe us: We are not running a satiric blog! Today, we shall visit the lowlands of scientific publication culture. With more than 30,000 published papers on COVID-19, inevitably there will be junk papers as well. Unfortunately, their number is not a small one. This is damaging […]
