Sick: School district wants kids to wear Covid-19 trackers
When middle and high school students go back to campus, they’ll have the option to wear a lanyard that keeps track of social distancing, alerting students when they get too…
Surge in good news: Florida schools re-opened – and nothing happened
Meanwhile, back in lock down havens schools remain mostly closed … because epi-astrology! Schools in the state have avoided major outbreaks of Covid-19 and maintained case rates lower than those…
Media on a roll: Basically nothing worked to stop the pandemic
Interesting to see early reviews of this era. And none of them are particularly nice. Francois Balloux, an infectious-disease epidemiologist and computational geneticist at the University College of London, goes…
Covid-19 mitigations: Voluntary measures work best, not heavy handed and ineffective orders
More media is noticing that public health this past year was quackery disconnected from the reality: For too long, America has approached public health issues with puritanical, black-and-white approaches. Whether…
Former CDC Director Redfield’s honesty problem
The reasons for spelling “vaccine” as “vacksine” is to slide past the Twitter auto-censor bots. This finding is interesting and unfortunate. Some more background here.
Actress suffered traumatic brain injury
Unfortunately, I know this all too well – very sorry she had to endure this: “2 years ago in March I suffered a traumatic brain injury I didn’t tell you…
Bayes Theorem rediscovered:”Seven in 10 positive Covid cases in school children likely to be wrong”
Thousands of pupils and their families are having to isolate needlessly, and missing more days after months away from classrooms Source: Seven in 10 positive Covid cases in school children…
The death of small cars in America
I drive a 2015 Honda Fit and love it; in fact its the 2nd Honda Fit that I own. Unfortunately, auto makers have decided Americans only want large SUVs. Some,…
Surge in good news: Novavax vaccine 96% effective
Novavax Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine was 96% effective in preventing cases caused by the original version of the coronavirus in a late-stage trial conducted in the United Kingdom, the company said…
“When Disneyland reopens, it’s going to have even more of a privilege problem”
Many governments and organizations are seeking to turn tourism in a post pandemic world into an elites-only experience. Many have said they want fewer tourists who are more upscale and…
What an ACA insurance policy costs
The typical annual premium for job-based coverage in 2020 was $7,470 for individuals and $21,342 for family coverage, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Source: The government will fully cover…
I got vaccinated! Backlash forms against posting your vaccination status online
I actually was vaccinated this week! Seriously. For MMR. Yep, measles, mumps and rubella – even though I’m over 60, the system slipped me through the cracks for decades. More…
Surge in good news: “Pfizer Covid vaccine blocks 94% of asymptomatic infections and 97% of symptomatic cases”
Pfizer said its Covid-19 vaccine blocked 94% of asymptomatic infections in an Israeli study – a result CEO Albert Bourla called “extremely important.” Source: Pfizer Covid vaccine blocks 94% of…
Another leading epidemiologist joins the cloth mask denier community
Acknowledges cloth masks do not work: He is a very widely quoted nutritionist, epidemiologist, health economist from Harvard University demanding all year that schools be closed. It was recently learned…
Inflation is coming
But you know we can just print money to infinity without problem: Inflation is just warming up, but by late spring it could get downright hot, even if just temporarily.…