Many patients tell me “I just want this thing to be over with.” They “can’t stand this any longer.” The virus is not listening. COVID has upended much of modern life, but it already possesses a “long tail.” This “devil’s prong” will continue over decades, first through statistics of death, destruction and disability, but later […]
The Numbers, Please
With Mother Nature, if you don’t deal with reality, it will deal with you. To work effectively you need data: useful, verifiable numbers. How is America doing? Let’s take a look at the pandemic. In the last ten days, the first vaccine out of the box, the touted Oxford Jenner Astra Zeneca adenovirus vaccine, has […]
Coronavirus Public Health Blog 4.26.20 – A Brief Note on Deaths
Death focuses the mind but deeply distresses politicians. Especially when their actions can be blamed for unnecessary deaths. Deaths from Covid-19 already are a political football. Expect the situation to progress with obfuscation, disinformation and eventually outright lying to take center stage. There is a way to cut through the BS: calculating excess deaths. For […]