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Constraints from geotemporal evolution of all-cause mortality on the hypothesis of disease spread during Covid

Update 2025-06-21: This article is now available on HAL open science Update 2025-06-18: Maintenant disponible en français ici Update 2025-06-16: This article is now available on preprints.org CORRELATION has published a new report entitled “Constraints from geotemporal evolution of all-cause mortality on the hypothesis of disease spread during Covid” authored by Joseph Hickey, Denis G.… Continue reading Constraints from geotemporal evolution of all-cause mortality on the hypothesis of disease spread during Covid

Confining vulnerable people into care homes during a pandemic produces the worst possible outcomes for them ― scientific article

MEDIA NOTICE Ottawa, October 30, 2023 (Link to PDF of this media notice) Governments have purported to correctly apply standard epidemiological models to create infectious disease policies during the COVID period, including to justify “protecting” vulnerable elderly individuals by isolating them from the general population in care homes. In a new paper published in the… Continue reading Confining vulnerable people into care homes during a pandemic produces the worst possible outcomes for them ― scientific article

Predictions from standard epidemiological models of consequences of segregating and isolating vulnerable people into care facilities

Update 2023-10-30: Now published in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS One CORRELATION authors Joseph Hickey and Denis Rancourt have posted a new preprint to medRxiv entitled “Predictions from standard epidemiological models of consequences of segregating and isolating vulnerable people into care facilities”. As shown in the paper, standard epidemiological models predict that isolating and segregating vulnerable… Continue reading Predictions from standard epidemiological models of consequences of segregating and isolating vulnerable people into care facilities