This set of posts are always relevant, regardless of when I wrote them.
Remembering the 3 Cs — Closed spaces, Crowded places, Close-contact settings — is key for understanding which scenarios carry increased risk.
Stark differences in mortality by race are markers of stark inequalities by race.
Sensitivity is the ability of a diagnostic test to capture everyone who has the condition. Specificity is the ability to identify everyone who does not.
“Herd immunity against COVID-19 will not be achieved at a population level in 2020, barring a public health catastrophe.”
David Dowdy and Gypsyamber D’Souza, Epidemiologists
Masks protect from virus, not from stink.
Approximately 20 percent of death certificates list one cause of death and 45 percent have three or more causes.
“The US response to the 1918 flu offers a case study of a communication strategy to avoid…The communication strategy of either reassurance or silence had its effect. Its effect was terror.”
John Barry, author “The Great Influenza”
Listen to the experts and not to this self-described “technologist.”