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BGR has an article on Florida schools spreading COVID-19. One complication with this is that I think they are including college students when they talk about "children". It's hard to be certain because the DoH doesn't directly list various categories the way they often appear in news. News...

Meanwhile, high-level insanity continues. It seems the new CDC guidelines saying you don't need to test asymptomatic people were pushed through by appointees on the day the director of NIAID was having surgery. Here in Central Florida we have an undesired public appearance on the NYT front...

As predicted, Florida is back above 3,000 new cases per day. Florida's DoH reported 3,220 new cases and 153 deaths today.

We are just now getting confirmation that the motorcycle rally in Sturgis, SD was a bad idea, at least for 70 people. This is likely a serious underestimate, because those who attended were among the least likely to report COVID-19 infections if they could avoid this. Georgia is still...

As predicted above, Florida's numbers are going up as we leave the weekend behind. Tuesday Florida's DoH reported 2,673 new cases and 183 deaths. Some people are celebrating because we have fewer than 3,000 new cases per day. I'm still trying to understand what is going on with a number of...

All the above examples of absurdity are eclipsed by Florida, which celebrated yesterday having *only* 2,974 new cases and 51 deaths. These numbers only count residents, ignoring any tourists who fall ill and die here. Note that this was on a Sunday, when people hesitate to fall ill or die...

Does treatment with convalescent plasma work? Wired's Adam Rogers reports that we still don't know. Naturally, the President intervened to announce a breakthrough treatment, overriding experts. His last breakthrough didn't hold up very well. He has also said a deep state cabal was sabotaging...

Another reference to organizations set up by COVID-19 "long-haulers" in Buzzfeed. This time getting a meeting with the WHO. I'll admit this is short on actual research, but then this whole pandemic is just now reaching the threshold for determination of ME/CFS. By definition there hasn't...

BGR has a report on yet another mysterious symptom of COVID-19 that ME/CFS patients will recognize, tinnitus. I've lived with tinnitus that appeared during an unidentified viral infection for the last 28 years. Background: those who try to make sense of my accounts may recall that "the worst...

In the U.S. we have over 5 million cases, so 10% could be a major public health burden all by itself. Incidentally, when I went to check hospitalizations I ran into a problem getting data. The place this should be is the CDC emerging infectious diseases program, which has set up COVID-Net...

I'm including a link to this article in The Atlantic because it tells about new groups being formed to research COVID-19 long-haulers.

I believe the late Douglas Adams covered this response with his invention of the "Somebody Else's Problem" cloaking field.

They are freaking out about 654 positives, presumably in a large city. Miami and Dade County just had 1,103 added in a day. Note: Miami is most of Dade County.

Florida has had a strange combination of reported data which has caused me to question the way it is being reported. Testing and case numbers have declined, but both deaths and hospital admissions have remained high. Today the DoH reported 3,383 new cases and 219 deaths. Monday they reported...

That banquet took place on January 18, 2020, and clearly qualifies as a superspreader event. What we are seeing in the available data is that there were many infected individuals there, and multiple strains. We also have at least one definite case in France prior to that event, and likely...

BGR reports on a study suggesting the first U.S. coronavirus cases date back to December 2019. I've been following case numbers with amateur models that don't make sense with official numbers unless there was a great deal of undetected community spread at the outset. This is also supported by...

While I'm still hearing people talk vaguely about "strengthening the immune system" or "damping down overactive immune response", the picture that is emerging is much more complex. We have previously learned that this coronavirus, and probably others, manages to make the RNA it places in cells...

Florida is in the middle of a weekend dip with only 3,779 new cases today, and only 107 newly reported deaths. For the week we had 40,610 new cases, 3,423 hospitalizations and 1,266 deaths reported. This does not sound like any kind of control to me. BTW: we are still reopening schools.

The problem should not be addressed by fighting over every individual death, like the "hanging chads" in the 2000 election. You need statistics that give people confidence they can tell what is going on, even if causes are hard to attribute. That is why we should always keep track of "excess...

The NY Times had a good feature on August 11 about immune response as a problem with COVID-19. Some articles on coronavirus are free access, but I have trouble telling because I have a subscription. They detect this even when I am not logged in. Forgive me if you hit a paywall...