Follow up: Was the sun n Fun airshow in Florida a superspreader event?
One of the nation’s largest air shows and aviation conventions, Sun n Fun, was held April 5-10 in Lakeland Florida. I understand the event had a record breaking attendance, no…
Follow up in June: “CDC projects a surge in U.S. Covid cases through May due to B.1.1.7 variant before a ‘sharp decline'”
More models: Covid-19 cases will likely surge again in the U.S. as the highly contagious B.1.1.7 variant takes hold across the country, peaking in May before sharply declining by July,…
Did Covid-19 spread mostly via homes and close contacts?
In the spring of 2020, I was looking at contact tracing data for Utah and they had found that about 2 out of 3 cases traced back to a home…
So other than that, lockdowns were an overwhelming success, right?
In 1915, chemistry lost its innocence when mustard gas poisoned British troops in Ypres, Belgium. Physics lost its innocence in 1945 amongst the radioactive rubble of Hiroshima, Japan. Public health…
More examples of bad predictions
July 21, 2020 A study produced by a team at Oxford University indicated that some parts of the United Kingdom may already have reached herd immunity from coronavirus. A significant…
Trevor Noah points out that public health messaging is a disaster
What I’ve been saying since April 2020! Trevor says about the CDC – “The shit you are saying is incoherent” Public health messaging is inconsistent, contradictory and incoherent. Been saying…
Island nations, and isolated rich countries stopped Covid spread
This is not new – the World Health Organization documented this trend of pandemic control, in an October 2019 report – before the Covid-19 pandemic. Tweet link. Of course, this…
CDC Director suggests vaccines do not work, need to wear masks
Conspiracy theorist cannot make up stuff like this. The CDC Director says, apparently, that masks are more effective than vaccines. This is mind blowing idiotic public messaging. Public health communication…
Follow up: Evidence supports that vaccinated people unable to spread Covid-19
Except this subsequently turned out to be false: Can we say with any degree of certainty that vaccinated people are unlikely to spread COVID to unvaccinated individuals? The emerging data…
Public health acknowledges that voluntary measures more effective than mandatory measures?
“The new cases have fallen since that point and they’ve really been pretty stable over the last week or two,” said Chris Van Deusen, director of media relations for Texas…