Health and Sanity category archive
The Superspreader 0
Spocko does the math.
The Turning Point 0
Thom sees a disturbing but all too believable confluence of events.
The Haunting 0
A. Close Their Eyes, Click Their Heels Together, and Wait 0
Q. What is the Trump administration’s strategy for dealing with the pandemic?
The Epidemiologist and Human Sacrifice 0
Dr. Mario Molina takes a look at the “herd immunity” snake oil being embraced by the Trump administration and does the math. A snippet (emphasis added):
Moreover, to achieve herd immunity, 70-90% of the community must be infected and develop resistance to the disease. In the United States that would mean over 200 million Americans would have to be infected with the virus. With a 1% mortality rate, which is optimistic (some researchers peg the mortality rate closer to 3%), that means that over 2 million people would die . . . .
Maskless Marauders 0
A physician and professor of medicine who lost his own father to COVID-19 before it was recognized for what it is struggles to understand the maskless marauders. A snippet: