Monthly Archives: March 2020

I am sick and tired of seeing only what journalists have managed to pull out from random published reports – especially when that consists of summary statistics based just on numbers by nation. But even when someone has the wit … Continue reading →

Before Trump started talking about choloroquine, health experts were looking into it as part of the solution. But now the drug is flying off the shelves in pharmacies and it’s so scarce that pharmacists are saying they don’t have enough … Continue reading →

There’s been a lot of rather loose talk recently about the distinction between “mitigation” and “suppression” which are really just expensive words obscuring the simple difference between “make it grow less fast” and “make it shrink”. The basic fact is … Continue reading →

This is a poorly phrased question because it uses the ill-defined term “important”. But it is one that is often asked so maybe it needs an answer. The word “important” is used in many ways. If you value human life, … Continue reading →

It seems clear(?1) that the pandemic will proceed in each community until about 70% of the population has acquired immunity by having survived the infection. The question is just how many will not survive. The good news is that the … Continue reading →