Your local meteorologist / mathematician / statistician here. I’m just checking in to give everyone some context to some recent comments made by some government officials. I’m not a doctor, but I do enjoy statistics…
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7/5/20 COVID Update: Viral “Superspreaders” are proposed, numbers rise death rate remains stagnant
I’m not a doctor. Still. A lot of people have accused me of trying to be one and encouraged me – sometimes rudely – to “Stay in my lane” or “stick to weather” because I…
ICYMI: Study finds treatment reduces transmission of COVID-19 by nearly 75-percent, Mississippi numbers explained, exploring what asymptomatic means
That treatment is pretty simple: Wear a mask. In the paper, “The role of community-wide wearing of face mask for control of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic due to SARS-CoV-2” authors looked at a small…
7/3/20 COVID-19 Update: A moment for science, looking at MIS-C in kids, and a brief update on a vaccine
I’m still not a doctor. Which is good. Because during the operation, I’d be too busy staring out the window at passing clouds than focusing on the task at hand. I am just a conduit…
7/2/20 COVID-19 Update: New numbers, notes from WHO, Mayo Clinic and Harvard, and a note on re-infection concerns
Still not a doctor. But that’s okay. Because there are tons of great doctors and researchers in this world already. This is a cultivation of some of the latest news and notes on COVID from…
6/28/20 PM COVID UPDATE: Doctor uses simple experiment to highlight mask effectiveness, false-negative tests continue, update on vaccines
I’m still not a doctor. So, on these posts you’ll never hear my opinion about anything medically-related. All I will do is cultivate and distribute medical data from real, actual doctors. Because while I didn’t…
6/27/20 AM UPDATE: New numbers, new COVID-19 research, clearing the air
I’ve heard from a handful of people with questions about some of the news that has come out in recent weeks about increased numbers, effectiveness of masks, and what some of the newest research means…
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Study finds treatment reduces the risk of contracting COVID-19 by nearly 75-percent
That treatment is pretty simple: Wear a mask. In the paper, “The role of community-wide wearing of face mask for control of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic due to SARS-CoV-2” authors looked at a small…
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6/10/20 COVID Update: Adding context to the numbers
So, now that the number of new cases every day is fluctuating between 200 and 500, you may be left wondering, what does all this mean now and why should I care? And that’s okay!…
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5/28/20 COVID-19 Update: New numbers & new research
As always, I’d like to take this time to remind everyone that I’m not a doctor. I’m more of a science and mathematics guy. These updates are meant as a way to turn the math…
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