SS Quah's Anything Goes

This is the transcript of the reply by Noor Hisham bin Abdullah, Director-General of Health, Malaysia, to a burning question why ivermectin...

It was a good outing this afternoon. Went to Penang Institute for the sixth Dr Wu Lien-Teh Society annual public lecture. Several weeks ago ...

Due to this current surge in the omicron variant, I've turned to using this KN100 surgical face mask (correct term is particulate respir...

This information is gleaned from fortune.com : a breakdown of the typical symptoms for each type of infection, as reported by the CDC (Cente...

The recent surge of the omicron variant of Covid-19 should be a cause of concern for everybody. Although we have the Health Ministry trying ...

Rather disturbing, isn't it, when people can sneak out of the country when they are unvaccinated but that was what happened when a group...

I received a notification on the MySejahtera app about a week ago to inform me that I had been scheduled for a Pfizer booster jab on the 28t...

That is the question. I've a chess friend who is such a supporter of the drug known as ivermectin that in our social media chatgroup, wh...

I first knew Kee Phaik Cheen and her husband, Dr Choong Sim Poey, in 1990. That was when Dr Choong became the president of the Penang Chess ...

On the 13th anniversary of George Town being recognised as a UNESCO world heritage site, this is the updated chart of Penang's Covid-19 ...

Three days ago, my wife and I were vaccinated. Finally! And it wasn't just the first dose; it was the second dose of the Sinovac vaccine...

Penang attained an unwanted milestone on 7 June 2021: the total cumulative Covid-19 deaths in the state reached 100 (and hardly anyone notic...

I've been collecting data on the coronavirus infections in Malaysia ever since the country went into its first lockdown on the 18th of M...

My wife and I have had our anti-coronavirus vaccination on Thursday at the Kepala Batas Hospital. We were in the last of their batch to rece...

This is a picture of George Town in 1968, taken from Penang Hill and attributed to a photographer named Philip Tracy. I took it from the Pen...

Over the past week or so, I have been rocked by reports from my friends of people they know who have succumbed to the dreaded coronavirus. I...

This is the vaccination centre in Sungai Jawi, Province Wellesley South. It's housed in the public multi-purpose hall over there. Very s...

This is my chart of covid-19 infections in Malaysia from the first day (18 Mar 2020) until yesterday (13 May 2021). The y-axis indicates the...

I've never seen one of my friends, a private medical practitioner in Penang, feeling so emotional before but I don't blame him at al...

Exactly 10 months of various permutations of the movement control order in Malaysia and we have come to this. The data is not pretty and the...