1918-1919 Spanish Flu Epicurve
Source: Figure 1 – 1918 Influenza: the Mother of All Pandemics – Volume 12, Number 1—January 2006 – Emerging Infectious Diseases journal – CDC Back then, diagnosis was based on…
Not good for summer travel hopes: Harvard Cancels Summer 2021 Study Abroad Programming
“Harvard Summer School suspended all study-abroad programming for the summer of 2021, citing concerns over the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.” Source: Harvard Cancels Summer 2021 Study Abroad Programming | News |…
Face masks work they said: Ontario Canada considering “more extreme measures” on top of existing lock downs
January 8, 2021: TORONTO (Reuters) – Ontario is considering “more extreme measures” on top of the widespread lockdowns in place, the premier said on Friday, Source: Canada’s Ontario says ‘more…
Fun with models
Disease model projections have proven close to worthless. Perhaps like a stopped clock, they might get close once in a while. Here is another set of models that blew up…
TSA Passenger counts by week
Chart shows the total number of passenger for each week, during the pandemic. This is a better way of looking at the data than day by day due to large…
Revisting UW IHME’s Covid-19 projections
This part of the post was written on September 4th, but not published until December 30. On September 4th, the UW IHME disease modeling team projected 410,000 deaths in the…
ISS Astronauts communicate with school kids via ham radio
The conversations are a treat for the astronauts as well. “You’re talking to someone and looking right down at where they are,” NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold II said. Over the…
Instagram’s new Data Policy – And why I deleted the Instagram app yesterday – Social Panic
I deleted my last FB/IG app from a device yesterday. I still had IG running on one Android tablet but I no longer view use of FB/IG apps as safe.…
Facebook Ad targeting said to be fraudulent
True: …Facebook has been selling them ad targeting that is unreliable to the point of being fraudulent. The documents feature internal Facebook communications in which managers appear to admit to…
Study: Travel restrictions only effective in first few weeks of pandemic, after that, useless
Travel restrictions, lock downs and face masks forever! Because reasons! Models have found that strict border closures could have helped limit viral transmission in the pandemic’s early days. But once…