Medical Infrastructure
One of the main threats of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it will overwhelm the medical system. Therefore when thinking about that risk, it would be useful to know how big the medical system is. ....
Month: March 2020
Unasked Questions in the Middle of a Crisis
Just the kind of investigative reporting we need (photo NY Times, from start Trump term). News coverage of this crisis is typical: wall-to-wall reporting of a small number of facts over and over again, giant ....
Better Cookbooks
Maybe now that all the restaurants have been closed by the pandemic, you are doing some more cooking. I don't have very strong opinions about recipes, but I have strong opinions about how they should ....
Should We Infect People Faster?
Now What? Benjamin finds peace in solitude, 2010. Now that health experts have convinced governments world-wide to encourage/enforce "social distancing", some uncomfortable questions appear. How much social distance is enough? No school? No meetings of ....
Physical Distancing
PDF version of chartDownload 19 Mar 2020 update: Chart was updated based on email exchanges with the three experts who supplied the original answers. See bottom of this post for earlier version of chart. Dr. ....
Most Abortions Happen Early in Fetal Development
High Resolution PDF of ChartDownload Because the abortion debate often focuses on abortions relatively late in a pregnancy, it is easy to get the mistaken impression of the circumstances of a typical abortion. As the ....
Coronavirus Lethality – Statistics & Comparisons
The chance of dying from coronavirus is hard to know because iffy numbers go into the calculation. I believe that the number of people who die is kept track of pretty closely in the US ....