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RKI Daten sind tages- und nicht fallbasiert

Leider kann man mit den RKI Daten nicht direkt in ein Regressionsmodell gehen, weil an vielen Tagen mehr als ein Fall in derselben Kategorie auftritt Continue reading RKI Daten sind tages- und nicht fallbasiert

Why the allergy epidemic did not already start 1935 in Germany

moblog – I have now spent another day at the Berlin Document Center browsing through hundreds of RKI pages – manuscripts, correspondence, bills and personal files. My goal was to find out why the allergy epidemic did not already start off 1935 in Germany when vitamin D synthesis was already possible on a large scale.
Indeed, I found evidence that at least 3 companies radiated at that time yeast derived ergosterin by UV quartz lamps – I.G. Farben, Nordmark-Werke and Deutsche Vitamin Gesellschaft. The number of companies in this field Continue reading Why the allergy epidemic did not already start 1935 in Germany