COVID roundup
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 →
Category Archives: Health
COVID-19: and what of Mexico?
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 →
April is…
…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 →
Flu vs. COVID-19: worrying about hospital shortages is nothing new
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 →
Distortion and fear: the MSM won’t quit doing this, because they think (know?) it works
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 →
New York City’s boroughs and COVID-19
The explanation for why New York City is being hit so hard is that it has such a dense population as well as a great deal of reliance on public transportation, as well as a lot of international travel. The … Continue reading →
Best sites for COVID-19 statistics?
I had a couple of sites bookmarked as my go-to places to find the latest US (state by state) and world (country by country) statistics. The best one seemed to be this, but in the last few days the figures … Continue reading →
Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care
Sorry for posting a bit late today. I find that one of the many things that happens to me lately is that my sleep has been somewhat more disturbed. I either have trouble falling asleep, or I wake up in … Continue reading →
Epidemiologists as the new gurus: what about the excess death rate?
Epidemiologists deal with dry facts and figures, but the subject matter of those facts and figures can be very dramatic: illness and death, and how best to go about minimizing the former and delaying the latter. Usually we don’t pay … Continue reading →
Globalization is the first casualty
Well, maybe not the first casualty. But the entire concept of globalization is taking a big hit. And rightly so: The question about assigning agency and blame is pretty straightforward to answer: The communist Chinese state, which for more than … Continue reading →
Trump vs. Biden: A crisis is an opportunity to be presidential
When people are stressed and worried by world and/or national crises, most of them naturally look to leaders to help: to communicate with them, to reassure them, and to do something. This is true not only of the relationship between … Continue reading →
Developing a serological test; and contact tracing
Developing a serological test for COVID-19 is important for many reasons. One is that we can identify people who had the virus and don’t even know it, and are now immune and run no risk and can go back out … Continue reading →