Healthcare
As I said on May 10, I would take a new look at the data at the end of June. FORTUNATELY, I WAS WRONG May 10 “Watch the daily numbers of deaths. If the plateau remains constant, with 1,800 deaths per day, then by June 1 (23 days) we will have an additional 41,000...
Recently, some news services have been quoting a few physicians who have posited that “COVID-19 is losing its strength.” Additionally, there is a lot of talk about how the virus is mutating. I thought it might be valuable to look into these statements a little bit...
December 1940. Hitler had finalized his plans for Vichy, France, the German invasion of Russia and the invasion of Greece. Dionne Warwick, Frank Zappa, Richard Pryor, Nick Buoniconti and Phil Ochs were born. In Oxford, England a police constable named Albert...
May 10 As of that date there were a total of 80,000 deaths in the USA. My post on that date included the following: “Watch the daily numbers of deaths. If the plateau remains constant, with 1,800 deaths per day, then by June 1 (23 days) we will have an additional...
LEAVING THE WHO. THE SAME MISTAKES AGAIN So, Mr. Trump has announced that we are pulling out of the WHO. He claims that, in his opinion, the WHO did not do enough to alert the US on the problems associated with COVID-19; they didn’t do it early enough, and they relied...
100,000 DEATHS. A PERSPECTIVE Since March 28, and as of today (May 28) there are now over 100,000 deaths attributable to an infection with COVID-19. In other words, over the past 60 days, an average of 1,667 people have died EACH DAY. Let’s put that into perspective....
Over the past couple of weeks several people have sent me articles, YouTube videos and editorials whose purpose is to question the data on COVID-19 or the country’s response to it. I have tried to read and watch all of these and in most cases to respond directly...
There has been some troubling information breaking involving the Federal Government’s statistics on testing. As of today, the government has reported that over 13 million tests have been “given”. Let’s take a look at that number to better understand it. THE NUMBER OF...
GOOD Moderna reported the first early clinical trials with their novel vaccine. The results were extremely encouraging, with patients developing levels of antibodies comparable to patients who had recovered from COVID-19, and the antibodies were, indeed neutralizing...
Sherlock Holmes in “Silver Blaze” solved the mystery of the murder of a racehorse’s trainer by observing that the dog did not bark when the horse was removed from the stable at night. With COVID-19, are you as curious as I am about why the fraction of infected...
CAUTION: I have no information either from inside or outside sources that he is indeed infected. My comments here are based on a few observations only. We know that Mr. Pence’s Press Secretary has been tested positive; we know that Mr. Pence has self-isolated; we know...
FIRST SUBJECT Keep your heads up, hold them high, stick out your chest. The American public deserves to be very proud. You have embraced self-isolation and social distancing. This has accomplished exactly what it was designed to do. The curve has been flattened....