Follow up: Doctors say COVID-19 threat worse now than during fall peak
April 8, 2021: The threat of COVID-19 could be worse today than it was when Wisconsin saw its peak in fall and winter, according to Milwaukee County health experts. Source:…
Follow up: Infectious Disease Expert Explains Why Next COVID-19 Wave In U.S. Is Inevitable
It’s likely too late to stop this upcoming surge, warned Michael Osterholm. Source: Infectious Disease Expert Explains Why Next COVID-19 Wave In U.S. Is Inevitable | HuffPost Celebrity epidemiologist Osterholm…
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…
Adopting Scandinavian social benefits and taxes in the U.S.
For something unrelated, I was researching some of the “social benefits” programs in Norway. This is my summary of what I came across – which may be sort of accurate…
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…
Biden proposes incentives to have large families, increase population
Giving incentives to have large families is solving which problem? This is in opposition to his “Green New Deal” goals. President Joe Biden unveiled his next $1.9 trillion stimulus package…
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…