This 2nd book in the Unmasking COVID-19 series presents new updates from the summer and early autumn months of 2020 including mortality rates, state-by-state case numbers & risks from pre-existing conditions.
Breaking containment reveals how much masks help & why health officials prefer them to vaccines. The book studies asymptomatic transmission & immunity factors to explain why some scientists don’t think vaccines will end the pandemic.
The author critiques current strategies of containment, testing & quarantine. He instead presents an alternative approach endorsed by over 50,000 doctors and researchers worldwide. Yet, federal officials won’t change direction and politicians double-down on past failures with threats of new lockdowns of society, businesses & schools. Learn why these policies can never contain the virus.
This book presents the problems to expect in the future and reasons to hope for elimination of the virus. Includes 230 new footnotes from government, news & science websites.
This book explores these topics:
- Case numbers during the summer & the patterns they reveal
- Origin of the novel coronavirus
- Earliest appearances in the US & Europe
- Risk factors for comorbidity – Who is the most vulnerable?
- Reasons the virus pummeled nursing homes
- Fatality & transmission rates of COVID-19
- Overstating vs. understating COVID-19 deaths & cases
- Asymptomatic occurrences & transmission
- Recommendations for quarantine duration
- Comparing COVID-19 to virologists’ five essential criteria to eradicate a virus
- Evaluation of containment measures used to eradicate/control pandemics
- Comparison of COVID-19 with SARS
- Why CDC hesitates between droplet vs. aerosol transmission
- Differences between sporadic, cluster & community transmission
- Virus testing problems (technical & procedural)
- Alternatives to nasal & cheek swab testing
- Effectiveness of masks in scientific research & practical experience
- Supply problems with PPE, medicine & essential medical equipment
- Hypocrisy of politicians & health officials concerning the practices they mandate
- Risks of in-person learning in public schools
And much, much more!
About the Author
Andrew Horn voices his unique perspective as an essential worker during the pandemic. His diverse career in technology & business enables him to synthesize cohesive structure for practical use.
He holds MS & MA degrees in computer science and biblical studies. Andrew is married to Sarah with two children.