COVID Mandates: Rights of Individuals versus the Collective
Victor Luca, 2-Mar-22 Unpublished New Zealand is more a social democracy than a liberal one in the sense that the rights of the...
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vicluca
- Feb 27
- 6 min
Vaccine Adverse Events
COVID-19, vaccine side effects, vaccine adverse events
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vicluca
- Jan 19
- 5 min
Dealing with a Respiratory Virus Two Years On
Dr Victor Luca Published in The Beacon 21-Jan-22 Two years have now passed since COVID-19 first disrupted our lives. On the 8th of April...
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vicluca
- Jan 17
- 3 min
Smoking and COVID-19
Dr Victor Luca Published, Whakatāne Beacon, Wednesday 29-Dec-21 Air pollution is a leading cause of global mortality, being responsible...
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vicluca
- Nov 28, 2021
- 5 min
Voices for Freedom are Voices for BS
COVID-19, Voices for Freedom, Vaccines, Misinformation, Social Media
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vicluca
- Nov 19, 2021
- 3 min
What does history teach us about plagues & vaccines?
Vaccine certificates, COVID-19, smallpox, Marcus Aurelius
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vicluca
- Oct 17, 2021
- 3 min
Zoonotic transmission of Covid-19
Published in the Beacon 29-Sep-21 The views expressed here are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of any organization...
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vicluca
- Oct 17, 2021
- 2 min
SARS-CoV-2: A tricky little virus
Some thoughts on COVID-19 transmission
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vicluca
- Jun 12, 2021
- 5 min
COVID-19 Transmission Back in the News
Dr Victor Luca Published The Beacon 11-Jun-21 This pamphlet was delivered to letter boxes in the district in May. On the 8th of April...
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vicluca
- Jan 12, 2021
- 3 min
The Virtues of Face Masks in the Fight Against COVID
Victor Luca, 12-Jan-21. Unpublished Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic there was considerable denial regarding the benefits of wearing...
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vicluca
- Jan 2, 2021
- 5 min
COVID-19: Does Dose Make the Poison?
Victor Luca, 3-Jan-21. Unpublished The Swiss-German physician, Paracelsus (1493-1541) first stated that "dose makes the poison". Here I...
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vicluca
- Dec 30, 2020
- 5 min
On COVID-19 Vaccines
Victor Luca, Published in The Beacon 31-Dec-20. COVID Free for Now Dr Victor Luca The views expressed here are solely our own and do not...
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vicluca
- Nov 10, 2020
- 4 min
Revenge of the Animals
Victor Luca, 11-Nov-20. Published in The Beacon, 3-Feb-21. I am no animal rights activist, far from it. When I was growing up in...
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vicluca
- Oct 8, 2020
- 5 min
Our Health System in the Age of COVID-19
Victor Luca, 28-Sep-20. Published, The Beacon, 9-Oct-20. I have always been exceedingly grateful that we have in our country an...
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vicluca
- Aug 18, 2020
- 4 min
COVID-19: Will we Squander an Opportunity to Act on Climate?
Victor Luca, 18-Aug-20. For decades now science has been warning us of an impending pandemic, as bad, if not worse than that of 1918. The...
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vicluca
- Aug 14, 2020
- 7 min
COVID-19 Transmission – Was our Ministry of Health was Caught Napping at the Wheel?
Victor Luca 15-Aug-20. COVID-19 can be transmitted through contact (fomites), droplets and via aerosols (airborne). Yet, our Ministry of...
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vicluca
- Jul 1, 2020
- 7 min
Accuracy of the COVID-19 Test
Victor Luca, 1-Jul-20 Published in The Beacon 19-Aug-20 Influenza is the Italian word for “influence” and came to be used for the disease...
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vicluca
- Jun 12, 2020
- 5 min
Where to from here with Infectious Diseases?
Victor Luca, 12-Jun-20. The Beacon 17-Jun-20 The COVID-19 pandemic has given us a baptism of fire in infectious disease and pandemics and...
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vicluca
- May 15, 2020
- 1 min
MoH Review of science and policy around face masks and COVID-19
The following is a review of science and policy relating to face masks and COVID-19 by the NZ Ministry of Health as at 15-May-20. It is...
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vicluca
- Apr 6, 2020
- 5 min
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Virus the Cause of COVID-19 Disease - Comparison with Influenza A
VIctor Luca & Sandy Milne Published Whakatāne Beacon 8-Apr-20 How does the virus transmit and what can we do about it? There are four...
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