Episode 62 is the second part of our biological update where amidst projections of a worsening sickness and death rate, we look deep into the science.  We look at why D614G is proliferating and what it is doing to make Covid more adaptable, and look at one study from Georgia and another from Germany which independently confirm dysgenic immune response is the most reliable predictor for severity.  In short, Covid's worst cases are the ones where it learns to use our antibodies against us,...

In Episode 61, we begin a two-part review of some breaking research that reveals that Covid is confirmed to be mutating in ways to make it more infective using both mutations and recombination.  Distressingly, it looks like modifications to the spike protein suggest that immune suppression and enhancement are possibilities for what we might expect in a second wave.  Where everyone will be looking for the number of people who have had cases and who have antibodies as a sign of safety, emerging...

Episode 60 expands the outlook as we check in on Russia, the UK, and Canada in more depth and see how hints of a second wave are peeking out from Germany to Singapore.  Global food supply chain issues are leading to greater insecurity presaging political issues.  The disappearance of Kim Jong Un as President Trump hints that the Wuhan lab is to blame for Covid only ratchets the tension further, as we close with diverging narratives in America as we see other countries finding the way to come...

Episode 59 covers two areas in some depth, starting with good news from Korea suggesting viral shed improbable from recovered patients which should reduce contagiousness.  That is tempered by more reporting on strokes in younger people, as Indian scientists identify a potentially emerging dominant strain which may explain why we are seeing new symptoms emerge.  The challenges this virus is wracking upon the economy continue to worsen with another 3.8 million Americans filing for unemployment,...

For the 58th Episode, we turn to a heavily divided America as we look at structural problems at both the economic and political levels and the challenges they portend.  After a quick update about a disturbing new problem with children in the UK that is potentially Covid related, we see Nevada and Colorado join the Western Pact and Florida basically let slip they're coordinating their open with Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee in support of the Administration and...

Episode 57 covers two delicate areas with depth and intensity.  First, we look at mental health in light of the tragic suicide of Dr. Lorna Breen from NY-Presbyterian and the many other Americans suffering.  From there, we look at how and why Covid may exacerbate this directly as well as indirectly in neurological effects of this most unusual disease with neurological and cardiological impacts beyond psychology and respiratory function.  The second half of the show introduces you to Shi...

Episode 56 starts asking the question which will determine our near future about what comes from the impending reopening.  Hoping to restart the economy and alleviate quarantine fatigue, we see the suffering measured by food security, unemployment, and having families in unfamiliar situations is real.  Yet, we also see why the economic boom won't happen because of behavioral changes, that the loss of life expectancy has sharply risen amidst other unknown threats, and observe the echoes of the...

Two big themes mark Episode 55.  We start by looking at secrecy in the UK, tragedy in Brazil, and growing Russian dependency on China to see the world beyond the human suffering of the coronavirus to see old orders disappearing to an uncertain yet undeniably novel future.  With oil collapsing, we see debt rising, and the big actors being protected for now as billionaires gain and banks rise, but small businesses suffer, people are unemployed, and food scarcity looms ominously on the horizon...

Two big themes mark Episode 55.  We start by looking at secrecy in the UK, tragedy in Brazil, and growing Russian dependency on China to see the world beyond the human suffering of the coronavirus to see old orders disappearing to an uncertain yet undeniably novel future.  With oil collapsing, we see debt rising, and the big actors being protected for now as billionaires gain and banks rise, but small businesses suffer, people are unemployed, and food scarcity looms ominously on the horizon...

Episode 54 takes a hard look at what we should expect from a second wave.  Instead of basing our modeling on the idea those who have had Covid are automatically assumed to have immunity, against the growing body of evidence of weak antibodies, we look instead at the nature of what Covid does, what other coronaviruses do, and look at the physical reasons why a second wave could be far more dangerous.  We see clotting becoming a major problem, eyes infected, and connect these to a coronavirus...

Unhappily, Episode 53 covers the consequences of disjointed Federal policy in the United States leading to new divisions.  A failure by DC to prepare for or meet the needs of states led to encouraging independent responses, and we see at least three factions forming as pacts that are pursuing a divergent path than the Administration desires with growing acrimony and consequences.  With California, New York, and Illinois all firmly ensconced with their neighbors in a health driven slower...

Episode 52 brings us into the question of what the real economy is doing.  We start by looking at massive unemployment, examining food security and pricing, and seeing how the bureaucracy entrusted to help people is failing.  The moral case we must work has begun to be promoted despite public health risks which are frankly unknown but might be deadly or debilitating, but never looking more deeply at who has benefited.  The ongoing nationalization of American assets across all sections of life...

Season Two begins another ten week journey into Covid and its to be seen impacts with Episode 51.  Today's episode is all about the coronavirus, and what we are seeing from patients.  We see a disease that while still plenty fatal is causing heart failure, kidney failure, hypoxia, and immune weakness for weeks after recovery and with growing questions about what immunity, if any, conveys for those who have had this.  A study from the Atlantic leaves us wondering if more people have had Covid,...

CV Central celebrates our fiftieth episode as the longest running pandemic podcast by looking at how the struggle to find winners financially and ideologically is making the American response incoherent which portends a hard future on every front, including health and economics.  As the WSJ shifts to see immune suppression as playing a major role, we see the Fed tell us unemployment will rise further still as the economy shrinks.  A delayed and reactive Federal response emphasizing top-down...

CV Central celebrates our fiftieth episode as the longest running pandemic podcast by looking at how the struggle to find winners financially and ideologically is making the American response incoherent which portends a hard future on every front, including health and economics.  As the WSJ shifts to see immune suppression as playing a major role, we see the Fed tell us unemployment will rise further still as the economy shrinks.  A delayed and reactive Federal response emphasizing top-down...

Episode 49 looks at how countries around the world are handling the coronavirus outbreak.  We look at Korea reporting about this question of reactivation and what it means to start things off.  From there, we look at how badly Ecuador has been pounded and all the ways in which Brazil, a country not dissimilar to the United States in many aspects, is struggling and sits just before a major outbreak.  India is trying to prevent a disaster, as we share a story of a gathering in Pakistan 100,000...

Episode 49 looks at how countries around the world are handling the coronavirus outbreak.  We look at Korea reporting about this question of reactivation and what it means to start things off.  From there, we look at how badly Ecuador has been pounded and all the ways in which Brazil, a country not dissimilar to the United States in many aspects, is struggling and sits just before a major outbreak.  India is trying to prevent a disaster, as we share a story of a gathering in Pakistan 100,000...

In our 48th episode, we explore challenging evidence suggesting that antibody protection is brief and scant, that the red blood cells are another target, and a provocative fear that asymptomatic carriers may experience reactivation through means not understood within a month of a first infection.  After looking at the troubles in the Bronx, and an elevated death toll from the UK from home deaths, we consider why ivermectin might be helping as another antimalarial.  We add evidence the hypoxia...

In our 48th episode, we explore challenging evidence suggesting that antibody protection is brief and scant, that the red blood cells are another target, and a provocative fear that asymptomatic carriers may experience reactivation through means not understood within a month of a first infection.  After looking at the troubles in the Bronx, and an elevated death toll from the UK from home deaths, we consider why ivermectin might be helping as another antimalarial.  We add evidence the hypoxia...

Episode 47 offers a counterpoint to the optimism which is infecting the West and leading to dangerously premature conclusions.  New reporting from Spain suggests a death told double or triple what was officially recorded from Covid, more people in Korea are testing as reinfected, and we look at the suggestion hypoxia, a lack of oxygen, might be part of the problem resulting from the virus potentially interacting with hemoglobin, or red blood cells.  As promised, economics are considered as...

Episode 47 offers a counterpoint to the optimism which is infecting the West and leading to dangerously premature conclusions.  New reporting from Spain suggests a death told double or triple what was officially recorded from Covid, more people in Korea are testing as reinfected, and we look at the suggestion hypoxia, a lack of oxygen, might be part of the problem resulting from the virus potentially interacting with hemoglobin, or red blood cells.  As promised, economics are considered as...

For Episode 46, we reset and take a look at the current situation.  Good news about flattening curves in Spain, Italy, and elsewhere conceals that we are at the beginning of a long story.  We look at the modeling from US and the many missteps along the way as we ask if we're really turning the corner, using the South as having many examples of how the modeling that presumes distancing does not reflect the on the ground reality.  Then, we ask about the adaptability of the coronavirus, noting...

For Episode 46, we reset and take a look at the current situation.  Good news about flattening curves in Spain, Italy, and elsewhere conceals that we are at the beginning of a long story.  We look at the modeling from US and the many missteps along the way as we ask if we're really turning the corner, using the South as having many examples of how the modeling that presumes distancing does not reflect the on the ground reality.  Then, we ask about the adaptability of the coronavirus, noting...

Episode 45 delves deeply into China, their response, and the evolving competition with the United States.  We start by looking at Latin America coming into crisis, promising a rising death toll and infection in countries from Mexico to Chile, peeking at Ecuador here.  We see nearly 7 million Americans now out of work as backdrop.  From there, we see the CIA reporting now that the CCP fudged the numbers.  China is friendly to some with new propaganda outlets and offers of masks to Italy and...