Update on Texas COVID Stats – Metrics Still Grinding Higher
All the COVID stats for Texas for the last two weeks (ending January 9) continued to track higher but because...
Public Health
Where Are We on Herd Immunity?
A year ago, most of us had never heard of the term “herd immunity.” Now it is ubiquitous. But unfortunately,...
US COVID Data Update – Approaching the Peak?
Over the last two weeks (ending 1/2), the country’s epidemic metrics were mixed and perhaps skewed by holiday reporting disruptions,...
My COVID Vaccine Trial Experience
As some of you may have seen in the media, I am participating in the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine trial and...
Update on Texas COVID Stats – Metrics Continue to Slowly Grind Higher
All of the COVID stats for Texas for the last two weeks (ending December 26) continued to track higher but...
US COVID Data Update – California and Everyone Else
Over the last two weeks (ending 12/19), most of the country has seen COVID infections slowly climb, and in some...
What We Know and Don’t Know about Naturally Acquired Immunity
Recently there has been a lot of debate over the degree to which recovering from a COVID infection confers immunity...
Update on Texas COVID Stats – Modest Increases after Thanksgiving – So Far
All stats for COVID in Texas for the last two weeks (ending December 12) worsened. However, the increase in hospitalizations...
If You Have Symptoms, Stay Home
From early on in the COVID pandemic, public health officials have been intently focused on asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic spread of...
US COVID Update – Outbreaks Eases in the Interior but Expands in Areas with Earlier Surges
In the last two weeks (ending December 6), the outbreak of COVID in the central part of the country slowly...
An Update on COVID “Excess Deaths”
Recently, two papers on the death toll from COVID have gotten widespread attention. The first was a CDC update on...
Update on Texas COVID Stats – Peak or Holiday Head Fake?
All stats for COVID in Texas for the last two weeks (ending November 28) worsened. However, the increase in hospitalizations...
Quote of the Week – Some Holiday Hope Courtesy of Farr’s Law
In 1840, British epidemiology pioneer submitted a paper to the British government outlining his findings that the outbreak of epidemics...
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