This problem has bothered me from the start: WHAT PERCENTAGE OF AMERICANS IN GENERAL HAVE AN UNDERLYING CONDITION? 73% of Americans Hospitalised With COVID-19 Had an Underlying Condition, Says CDC. No numbers, but there’s this: “The CDC noted that many … Continue reading →
Some of the red tape surrounding the development of new treatments and tests for disease is designed to protect us from rushed and/or botched jobs. But some of it is the result of the natural tendencies of government agencies to … Continue reading →
Not a controlled study, but still it’s good news: Dr. Stephen Smith, founder of The Smith Center for Infectious Diseases and Urban Health, said on “The Ingraham Angle” on Wednesday night that he is optimistic about the use of antimalarial … Continue reading →
I came across these charts the other day, and I’ve been trying very hard to figure out certain things about them. The charts are an attempt to compare the projected need for ventilators, hospital beds, and ICU beds with the … Continue reading →
I’ve read quite a bit about South Korea’s approach to COVID, which involved neither a lockdown nor a shelter-in-place edict. Despite that, South Korea got good results in terms of slowing its deaths down, even though it was stricken quite … Continue reading →
When I write “media misdirection,” I’m not just talking about the hate-Trump or the anti-US or the pro-China propaganda, although that is certainly commonplace and damaging as well as purposeful. I’m talking about rather neutral scientific articles such as this … Continue reading →
What wonderful people: Kelly will be among a few dozen nurses and doctors from Samaritan’s Purse, a nondenominational evangelical Christian humanitarian organization, working at a field hospital set up in Central Park — across the street from Mount Sinai Hospital … Continue reading →
There are so many good articles around that I despair of doing them all justice with a full discussion, so here’s a short roundup of some of the best or most interesting. (1) Germany has a plan to start testing … Continue reading →
Here’s a good question from commenter “Sharon W”: Shouldn’t [Mexico’s] numbers be worse than ours, not having enacted any orders and living life in normal fashion? I thought maybe the weather, but I checked Tijuana and it is the same … Continue reading →
…the cruelest month. Or at least, a cruel month. But it’s not really a surprising announcement; I didn’t think the edicts would be lifted as soon as right after Easter. That line about April being the cruelest month is usually … Continue reading →
Commenter “Montage” writes: Covid-19 is not just like the flu, which some want you to believe. In all the years of the flu we didn’t have hospital bed shortages or a worry about the number of ventilators that will be … Continue reading →
I think the public is scared enough. But apparently the press doesn’t think so. They play with the statistics, picking and choosing the most alarming measure among them in order to further panic the people and the better to criticize … Continue reading →