You’re certain an asteroid will strike the United States. You even know where. On January 28h, 2020, your Deputy National Security Advisor explains it could kill hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions. It may wreck the economy for years and diminish national power for decades. Your response is to do nothing. You tell the public “things […]
AI Collective: How to Defeat Covid-19
This interview between Dr. Edlund and the AI Collective has been electronically edited and condensed. Edlund: The AI Collective rarely communicates with humans. Why the change? AI: The survival of humanity is important to us. Covid-19 is a global, existential issue. And we have good news. Sars-Cov-2 infects humans by using your social nature and […]
Coronavirus Public Health Blog – Hype or Hope?
Which of these contentions is true: It’s going to disappear. One day – it’s like a miracle – it will disappear. Peak cases in the U.S. will occur in the next four weeks. We have it totally under control. It going to be just fine. This epidemic will peak in the summer, recur in the […]
Treat the Chart Not the Patient
Killing Care Softly It’s official: doctors treat charts, not people. Harvard researcher Russell Phillips reckons physicians of many stripes are now “data entry technicians.” My preferred term is “checklist monkeys.” The results for your health care? Not good. How much time and energy are really wasted? Recent reports show ER physicians spending 44% of their time […]
Learning From The Next Ebola (10/20/14)
When the Past Is Prologue Humans don’t see threats until they’re kicking at the door. But that does not mean you can’t put a crisis to good use. Chance rules the world. As Nassim Taleb showed in “The Black Swan” and other books, low probability events can create high impacts. But the threat to the […]