US COVID Deaths: Update
How is the US doing now that lockdown is being eased in many states? 13 weeks of weekly COVID-19 deaths/capita, for different sets of states. Here is a 3D version of the figure shown in ....
Category: Health & Medicine
COVID Toll Across America
I have seen graphs of COVID-19 casualties in individual states and in the country as a whole. Here I display death statistics in a new way that more clearly summarizes the pandemic impact across the ....
Covid-19 Pandemic Week-By-Week
It feels like the winter of our covidiscontent has lasted for years, and the date of each new emergency has already become hazy. Therefore I created a chart (see below for image and link to ....
The Problem of Remote Mingling
Want to talk to someone, give a class, or have a meeting? There are plenty of good tools that you can use, such as Webex, Zoom, and Blackboard. One activity that these tools do not ....
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. ....
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 ....
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 ....
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 ....