It has been a while since we looked at Oceana. This forgotten continent has been doing very well COVID-death-wise. The last time we...

It has been two months since we talked about the Olympics. Since then the flame arrived from Greece, to continue to excite Olympic Fever...

The world's daily official cases and deaths continue to increase, by 8% and 3% respectively over the past week. Here is a new graph...

The world has now reached half a billion documented COVID cases. As mentioned last week official deaths are now over five million,...

The biggest vaccination campaign in history is underway. More than 7.08 billion doses have been administered across 184 countries. The...

US National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently acknowledged that the US has funded gain-of-function (GOF) coronavirus research at Wuhan...

It was a year ago today when I posted the reflections of a friend, colleague and mentor from the UK ( Thought of the Day - October 28 -...

As has been the theme for a number of months now, the world's COVID weekly figures, cases (-4%) and deaths (-8%), continue to decline....

No, I am not talking about the symptoms of COVID. I am talking about a growing supply chain issue. Remember toilet paper, remember...

I have written about Max several times on this blog ( Thought of the Day - March 26 2021 - Max's Anniversary ). Max, now 11, started...

Like me a couple of years ago, you are probably saying: "Where the heck is New Caledonia? ". New Caledonia is a mineral-rich French...

The good news from around the world is that the number of "official" cases and deaths has started declining for the first time in over a...

The US continues to lead the world in new cases (now averaging about 125,000 new cases a day). As their case fatality rate is less than...

Not wanting to miss an opportunity Mattel has now produced "COVID Vaccine Developer" Barbie. British vaccinologist Dame Sarah Gilbert...

I have talked on a number of occasions about the criticality of proper testing, quality control, launch preparation, and production...

Looking across the world, the US continues to have the highest official total of new cases (up over 20% this past week). On a per-capita...

With Canada's vaccine rollout rapidly winding down, and our unused stockpile growing (now 13% of our total received), I figure I would do...

As we close in on 200,000,000 total reported cases of COVID, daily new cases continue to rise around the world and so, unfortunately, do...

As vaccination rates are reaching saturation "Vaccine Hesitancy" is being studied, especially in the western world. None more than in...

Things are not looking too rosy around the world. While deaths remain consistent (at around 50,000 a week), new cases around the world...