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The role of immune response in COVID-19 has been important, and misunderstanding of immune response by medical doctors, let alone the general public, is behind a great deal of confusion. The New Yorker magazine has a nice non-specialist survey of the place of this pandemic in the history of...

Florida is back in the news. We just set a record for the most new cases in a single day since August, 5,592 and 72 deaths. Cases are clearly on the upswing, and deaths have not fallen off. Less noticed is that the state has again redefined the way it calculates positivity, again making it drop...

Inverse has an article on how COVID-19 affects the brain. What strikes me is how little expert neurologists feel certain about. What they do say is that there appear to be some neurological problems lasting a year, which is hard to document, considering the length of this crisis. (I don't...

BBC reports study on COVID-19 antibodies. The percentage of people exhibiting them is declining. If this is the primary defense against infection, this argues against "herd immunity". On the other hand it tells essentially nothing about defense by T-cells. We remain uncertain.

I saw that, and several more reports, what I expect now is some kind of spin control to say they are not actually giving up and writing off hundreds of thousands more of U.S. citizens. We'll see what is in the news tomorrow. There are already Republicans willing to vote for the confirmation of...

Florida is reporting 3,377 new cases and 20 deaths today. Case numbers are high for a Monday. It appears that spin control is concentrating on denying that deaths are due to COVID-19. Hospitalizations are increasing. In the White House, it now appears that nobody is talking about controlling...

Florida reported 4,471 new cases and 77 deaths today. We still have evidence the pandemic is growing here, despite efforts to downplay it.

The U.S. just reported its highest daily new case number in the entire COVID-19 pandemic. There is no longer any question; we are in a third wave.

Florida reported 3,689 new cases today and 73 deaths. This is probably close to the weekly average. Earlier in the week case numbers were displaced from one day to another while the reporting effort went through a shake-up. There is particular emphasis on reviewing cause of death to get the...

Florida reports 5,557 new cases today and 57 deaths. Cases appear to be going up, but things are complicated by confusion earlier this week. The administration announced a new policy for reviewing reported deaths after one county reported 50, and Tuesday's reported case numbers were delayed...

Today Florida reported 3,662 new cases and 84 resident deaths. This is unusually high for a Monday report, and may indicate an increasing case rate. Previous 7-day averaged cases run just under 3,000 per day (2,988). Florida has between 4 million and 5 million people at increased risk. Even...

Just in case nobody else has linked this, I want to include this link to a video in which Dr. W. Ian Lipkin describes the plan to depend on herd immunity alone as obscene. His estimates of mortality are not wildly overblown. We really could lose over a million Americans. Here in Florida our...

Florida continues to set new records. Today the state reported 4,044 new cases and 88 deaths. What the state has done in the last few weeks has simply been wrong. The real problem is how long it takes leaders to understand this. Added: the positivity rate I have been using, the percent...

Florida has had a second day with over 3,000 new cases: 3,499 cases and 98 deaths. As said above, this is not the result of increased testing. It appears to be the consequence of lifting all or most restrictions this month. I had expected a delay of weeks. Rt-live puts the case reproduction...

Florida has moved back to daily reports above 3,000 cases per day: 3,356 new cases and 141 resident deaths today. Here's another report. We are testing less than half as many people as we did in July, so that is not the cause of this increase. The virus is spreading faster since most...

Florida's definition of positivity of those tested doesn't impress me, and I've said so several times. Here's a Florida newspaper account I'm hoping others can access. To me it looks like state authorities have shopped around for a measure that will allow them to say they are following CDC...

Florida's disputes about COVID-19 deaths just got uglier. The departing state speaker of the house just wrote a memo blaming overworked medical examiners for upping the count of deaths. Medical examiners have fired back. There is no question that the people are dead, or that they died while...

Unfortunately it went about as predicted. Dr. Fauci has warned that these are likely to become super-spreader events, like that ceremony in the Rose Garden that seems to have infected 34, only much larger. It seems that science, expertise and facts have no particular effect on this campaign...

Florida's state attempts to force schools to conduct in-person classes are not going well. There is a magnet school preparing students for jobs on ships named MAST. It reopened last week, and just shut down again.

Today Florida reported 5,570 new cases and 178 resident deaths. Considering the cases not reported yesterday, we are still running over 2,000 new cases per day, and something like 90 deaths per day. This is not a stable situation.