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Covid-19 Pandemic Week-By-Week

April 4, 2020August 4, 2020 bklinger

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 ....

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Geography/Economics/Politics, Health & Medicine, Pandemic, Social Policy

Medical Infrastructure

March 27, 2020August 5, 2020 bklinger

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. ....

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Unasked Questions in the Middle of a Crisis

March 24, 2020August 5, 2020 bklinger

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 ....

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Communication, Health & Medicine, Pandemic, Social Policy

Coronavirus Lethality – Statistics & Comparisons

March 1, 2020August 5, 2020 bklinger

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 ....

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