Fewer People May Be Dying in the US than Normal
Of all the statistical cacophony to which we have been subjected during the COVID pandemic, there is only one metric...
COVID-19
County Vaccine Contract Exposed as Blatant Bid-Rigging
Last week, a copy of the application by the Texas Rangers for a warrant to search County records related to...
Excess Death Analysis for 2021
We now have fatality data for 2021 which should be mostly complete, and the results look very similar to 2020. ...
Update on US & Texas COVID Stats – Omicron Going, Going, But Not Quite Gone
The word “spike” has been atrociously overused during the pandemic. But in the case of the Omicron variant it is...
Stay Home – Unless You Are Going to a Lina Hidalgo Rally
It was only a month ago that County Judge Lina Hidalgo appeared before a sparsely attended press conference with her...
Update on US & Texas COVID Stats – Omicron Peak?
There is a growing consensus that the Omicron wave has peaked and will usher in the endemic phase of COVID. ...
It is Time to Start Talking About Obesity
Although comparisons on how countries fared during the COVID pandemic is fraught with data problems, most metrics seem to indicate...
Update on US & Texas COVID Stats – Omicron: Scourge or Savior?
I apologize for the length of this post but there is a lot to unpack. For the last month, the...
Update on US & Texas COVID Stats – The November Plateau
It seems I am not destined to lay down my COVID pen just yet. After a very rapid decline in...
Update on US & Texas COVID Stats for October – Delta’s Long Goodbye
Throughout the month of October, COVID was in retreat throughout the country and most of the world. Hospitalizations US hospitalizations...
The Numbers on COVID Vaccine Breakthroughs
Recently, there has been a great deal of media chatter about people falling sick with COVID after being vaccinated or...
Update on US & Texas COVID Stats for September – Delta Decline Well Underway
As of the end of September, the Delta wave was in decline throughout almost all of the United States. The...
Update on US & Texas COVID Stats – More Signs of a Delta Peak
As of September 20, more encouraging signs have emerged suggesting that the current delta variant wave of COVID has peaked...
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