The #allesdichtmachen campaign criticizes Germany's inefficient pandemic policy and its high economic costs. Have other countries been more successful in preventing deaths through lockdowns?

Despite great uncertainty and massive sales losses, German corporations carried out almost as many share buybacks in 2020 as in the previous year. At EUR 8.1 billion, the volume was only 7% lower than in the previous year.

In Great Britain, politicians are currently often shown off when confronted with the false-positive rate of tests for the coronavirus. Calculations suggest that the majority of all newly infected people are not ill at all, but rather that the tests ...

There is no uniform epidemiological opinion as to how the pandemic will continue in Germany. Nevertheless, there is increasing evidence that virologists do not expect a second wave-like outbreak. Rather, local outbreaks are to be expected. Germany sh ...

The excess mortality (numbers of deaths compared to previous years) provides information on the development and extent of the Covid-19 pandemic. The advantage of the approach is its independence from the authorities' survey procedures but comes with ...

The computations of the reproduction number R by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) are puzzling and cause unnecessary disturbance. One of the reasons is a lack of transparency.