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  When is Covid, Covid?  September 11, 2020 Elizabeth Spencer, Tom Jefferson, Jon Brassey, Carl Heneghan We are constantly following the tally of Covid-19 cases. But one question won’t go away: when is Covid-19 actually Covid-19? Covid-19 was  first identified  as a severe disease-causing atypical pneumonia, accompanied by fever, cough and sometimes a range of other symptoms. The clinical features of the 41 patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan included pneumonia with abnormal findings on chest CT. The agent was identified as SARS-CoV-2.  Testing by RT-PCR has been globally implemented to identify RNA sequences thought to be unique to SARS-CoV-2. Worldwide case numbers are based on the reporting of the presence or absence of small RNA sequences of the SARS-CoV-2 genome. Some diseases can be diagnosed based on a test alone; most diseases, however, are defined by the cluster of symptoms and signs, in addition to test results. A  recent review  found that  a single  sympt

COMMENTS ON ‘GREEN’ BILLIONAIRES BEHIND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVIST NETWORK THAT LED SUPPRESSION OF ‘PLANET OF THE HUMANS’ DOCUMENTARY Wrong Kind of Green   Sep 11, 2020   Celebrity [Capitalism | Humanitarianism | Neoliberalism] ,  Social Engineering ,  Whiteness & Aversive Racism Wrong Kind of Green September 9, 2020 An informal response written by  Cory Morningstar  (Wrong Kind of Green Collective) to the recent Max Blumenthal piece “‘Green’ billionaires behind professional activist network that led suppression of ‘Planet of the Humans’ documentary”.   Now that much (perhaps some?) of my work over the past decade is finally suitable for discussion and sharing, having been rewrapped with a Max Blumenthal bow, I’m adding some further commentary to complement the relevant piece being widely shared by filmmaker Jeff Gibbs and many more. Let’s begin. 1.  MB: “Naomi Klein, perhaps the most prominent left-wing writer on climate-related issues in the West, did not weigh in to defend “Planet of