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“When vaccines became available, PANDA began to advocate strongly against widespread vaccination, and continues to do so,” writes Vegter.

Your job and the Covid-19 vaccine explained. A response, based on the actual law, to Panda’s copy and paste letter for workers who wish to not disclose their vaccination status.

Actuaries that have commented or make incorrect predictions about Covid-19 in public, need to have humility and admit when they’ve made mistakes, the incoming president of the country’s actuarial society said on Thursday.





Mon, 29 Mar 2021 07:25 UTC © Parastoo Maleki on UnsplashSince the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 global pandemic, many issues have arisen that run contrary to historical precedents and known and practiced public health principles of the last century. This article discusses some of these issues: assumptions made without evidence, the incorrect case definition, PCR diagnostic test problems, the impact of these two factors on morbidity and mortality estimates, school closur...

Following an article published in the Daily Maverick, co-ordinator at PANDA (pandemic – data and analytics) has written a response to the piece that he describes as a ‘ tabloid-grade hit piece’. ‘The authors take aim at PANDA’s models. They criticise PANDA’s mortality model for supposedly predicting 10,000 confirmed Covid deaths in the first wave (PANDA’s model was in fact the most accurate model produced for South Africa and we estimated 20,000 deaths in the very first paper we p...

Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. At a time when reliable information on the Covid-19 pandemic, treatment and vaccines is considered so vital that many countries – including South Africa – have criminalised misinformation, a group of influential South African lobbyists has been amplifying discredited and unscientific views and voices. A South African private sector research group that has repeatedly lobbied against lockdown denies being associated with a global coalition of pandemic deni...

The link between alcohol consumption late at night and the spread of the virus has not been established, said Shayne Krige, one of the founders of Panda.