Opinion: Practicing Factfulness based on data.
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…
Just 10 days ago, the Oregon Health Authority said that the overwhelming majority of Oregonians have been complying with guidance and doing all the right things. But since cases are…
Was reading up on something else which led to this item on the 1968-1970 influenza pandemic. Very interesting. The 1968 flu pandemic caused illness of varying degrees of severity in…
Source: Covid 19 Risk Tool from Johns Hopkins University The online calculator uses data to estimate your mortality risk, based on data for people with similar health situations as you,…
The UW IHME random number generator projects up to 1 million new cases on January 10th. MIT has their own forecast: Total active coronavirus cases in the U.S. are projected…
The CDC recommended Friday that people now wear masks in all indoor settings, with the sole exception of their own home, as part of a broad strategy to slow the…
On March 27, 2020, four days after Oregon’s lock down when in to effect, the Oregon Health Authority issued a $145,000 grant to an activist group named SNACK BLOC, under…
I think my state (Oregon) peaked in new positive test results on Nov 21st, peaked in new hospitalizations on Nov 30th, and will peak on reported deaths within about a…
Kinsa model down to just 3 states still in an accelerating trend and all 3 of those may now be in a downwards trend (too early to tell yet but…
Update: On December 15th, the Oregon Health Authority reported 54 deaths (all of these deaths took place across about six weeks prior to today’s report). Of these, 42 of those…