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Maurice de Hond
Personal blog · maurice.nlhealthdata
Maurice de Hond's personal blog at maurice.nl covers health and data. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link the blog of Dutch pollster Maurice de Hond, which covers Covid-19 research on weather, humidity, indoor air and ventilation. Commenters cite it on pandemic policy and censorship.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blog met bevindingen en opvattingen van Maurice de Hond en anderen over alles wat met de Coronacrisis te maken heeft.
What Hacker News says?
A whole year ago early in the pandemic (may2020), dutch pollster / data entrepreneur Maurice De Hond was purged from google indexes, for suggesting there was a link between covid spikes and weather. His research [1] indicated that brazil (manaus) and ecuador (guayaquil) - both hit early on by the disease- showed a very strong predictive basis for spikes in covid19 deaths/cases, and massive rainfall. Now, its importa…
Comment linking /2020/05/21/the-blind-spot-with-huge-consequences/
on “India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first”Not the first time I've heard about this and it makes sense. Sadly people mentioning things like this get censored / deplatformed because their opinions go against the government policy. Like this person in my country: https://www.maurice.nl/tag/humidity/
Comment linking /tag/humidity/
on “Fixing indoor air is a way to curb the spread of Covid-19”>Early in the pandemic we were told to scrub all surfaces rather than wear masks; now we know that aerosol droplets in the air are by far the most significant vector of viral transmission. Scientists need to do a better job of managing how they communicate what they know, and how they come to know it. Or maybe that wasn't science but politicians riding on ignorant journalism. Maurice de Hond has been talking about v…
Comment linking /2020/06/22/wells-proved-it-already-its-the-airborne-microdroplets/
on “We Need Social Science, Not Just Medical Science, to Beat the Pandemic”