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I’ve noticed lately that several threads in our national dialog about COVID-19 and how to manage it have been missing a key point. I’ve boiled it down to this statement: “It takes less effort and fewer

Well, I'm still trying to keep up, but the disjuncture between what the data is/says and the 'reporting' of the data is still getting worse, and, really, I'm very tired of trying to make corrections on

I have gotten incredibly tired of trying to use lousy data and of the politicization of science and stats. It's just too much. I was feeling way too 'ranty'. I don't like feeling that way. But here goes.

These are getting harder and harder to write. The data is problematic at best. The media emphasis and interpretation does not even rise to the level of problematic. As the politics increasingly ignores

Dr. Deborah Birx said in an interview on NBC’s “Today.” “We’re already starting to see some plateauing in these critically four states that have really suffered under the last four weeks, so Texas, California,

I was waiting, as I alluded before, to see if more data will improve my understanding as to what is going on. The simple, best answer is “sort of”. It turns out the data reporting may be even worse than

This is from CDC data I collected on 7/16/2020. The weekly data of the past several weeks is incomplete. A few states have not reported last week's data, which is the most incomplete anyways, so I did

Had a little time to run new data. Nationally, we reported over 750,000 new tests today and the 7 day MA is 4.7M. New cases are flat at 8% of new tests for the week. New deaths are near 900 for the 4th

I got hung up a little, so this is later than I wanted. But. . . There are two things about the COVID panic that have really bothered me (aside from bad policies). They are: Over-reliance on the number

First, I will be visiting family (and making sauerkraut) over the July 4th weekend. I'll be mostly offline from Wednesday night until probably the next Monday. I will be keeping up with the data as well

I'm really getting to hate writing about this, mostly because there seems to be no real discussion about what we know and should be doing. That is especially true about the current media hysteria about

I'm trying to sort this out and write while very upset by the so-called 'reporting' on COVID-19. The tldr version is that too many media sources seem to be deliberately misusing data to push a story that

You'll have to excuse any small mistakes I think. I spent over an hour having a molar 'extracted' today. Actually, it wasn't extracted so much as it was hammered, drilled, split into 3 parts and then each

On Thursday the stock markets tanked because there was "a spike in new COVID-19 cases" That was total, and I mean total, BS. Even if you limit the "spike" to Texas (see my previous

While many states may be able to keep COVID-19 under control through a phased reopening and testing program, huge sections of the country have, at best, a dismal medical and economic prognosis. Dismal,

This is the Texas rate of tests being given, per capita. Note that the line has been flat for the last month, and is barely double the rate we had in mid April, while many other states have increased 5x

I've been tracking the data for Sweden for the last few weeks and I think it's worth taking a deep dive to look at what it actually all means. Most of the text will be under the charts, but I want to address

Possibly the last one, unless there is a true "second wave" in the near future. I will probably have a brief update on maybe Thursday when the past weekend data will have been rolled into the

Astalavista .. till weekend! I'm off Up North to my cabin for a few days. Catch me if you can Gov Whitmer! (She slightly eased some 'rules' today. It's okay to not social distance if you're setting fire

Declining trends despite opening. End of the month and a weekend, so this a good time for an overall evaluation of the month.I'll start with the national situation then point out a couple of states. First,