Redefining death seems like an extreme way to improve statistics, but I'm sure this will be picked up by more governments. In the U.S., standard...
Florida is again showing what not to do. Our governor has blamed a spike in numbers on a lab that dumped months worth of data on one day. Some...
New Zealand's bad news is that they still don't know how this family was infected. They may have community spread. Meanwhile, the U.S. is busy...
I can't seem to get away from U.S. news about bungled responses to the crisis. A Georgia school which featured in national news for a total...
I just learned that a friend who is acting as city manager for a small Florida city needed to be tested to avoid spread among people providing...
In epidemiology it is standard to estimate how many cases you are identifying, versus the number implicitly in the community. We have had serious...
It turns out a percentage of asymptomatics are actually presymptomatic, something that shouldn't surprise anyone with experience with epidemics....
While I will agree in the sense that one virion inside a cell can cause infection, the probability the virion will survive to reach and enter the...
Florida is now celebrating lower case numbers, forgetting testing was shut down for the hurricane. Today we posted *only* 7,650 new cases and 120...
Just happened to run across this study from Yale about reopening colleges with residential students. Here's a description. From a scientific...
Florida's surge slowed somewhat over the weekend. We had a day with *only* 62 deaths, and 7,104 new cases. Outdoor testing sites were shut down...
Florida set another grim record today with 257 more reported deaths, but *only* 9,007 new cases. What is going on now, with more deaths in...
Florida has again served as a cautionary example. Today the State DoH reported 253 deaths, yet another one-day record. We also have 9,956 new...
I said I wasn't going to keep posting depressing Florida numbers unless they served some other purpose. Here are two such numbers: yesterday the...
Sweden and its neighbors are not used to making a big deal out of borders. A friend in Sweden whose business involves work on ferries told me...
In hopes of improving my own mental hygiene, I'm going to stop posting daily results for Florida, unless it serves some other purpose. This state...
Florida finally had a day with fewer than 10,000 new cases, 9,344. We also had *only* 77 new deaths reported. Orange County had 421 new cases and...
Florida update: 12,199 new cases today, and 124 newly reported deaths. This is the real thing, and state half-measures continue.
Here are some research paper links that may belong in another thread. I'm hoping an administrator will find the right place. I'm dealing with...
There's a reason I used antibody tests above. People with symptoms or contact with an infected individual are typically given a nucleic acid...
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