A definitive turning point for India! Our most reliable (but lagging) measure of spread, days-to-double-fatalities, has pulled out of its supra-exponential dive and, as of today, is not even exponential. We don't see what the worry about the latest variant can be when we see this result at its place of origin.
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Monday, June 14, 2021
Again the US lacks enough new cases or fatalities to make our top-ten list on page one. It's not just the "weekend effect" -- it was the weekend everywhere.
Covid-2019
Sunday, June 13, 2021
Florida has decided to cut back the rations to the Covid fear-porn beast. The state is now publishing cases and fatalities weekly, not daily.
Covid-2019
Saturday, June 12, 2021
At the top of "Recommended Reading," an inspiring interview with Filippa Lentzos, who withstood vilification by her group-thinking peers to call out the possibility early on that the origin of Covid was a Wuhan lab leak. Her article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists came out one year to the day before this May's blockbuster that finally opened minds to dare to question China's stonewalling.
Covid-2019
Friday, June 11, 2021
Trading places! For the first time in months, South America shows more new cases than Asia (because cases in India have fallen, cases in Brazil have not). And for the first time *ever* new cases in Africa exceed those in US/Canada/Mexico.
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Thursday, June 10, 2021
In "Recommended Reading," enjoy the Cleveland Clinic doctors' research showing that in a group of 52,238 previously infected by Covid, not one was ever reinfected. Then enjoy the Cleveland Clinic's PR department's groveling retraction, urging everyone to get vaccinated, and heaven forfend anyone think they can be anything less than totally risk-averse.
Covid-2019
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
New cases in India now are just a quarter of what they were merely a month ago. The new media fear-porn being rushed in to fill the breach is that the new "delta variant" there is more severe. Then why is the two-week case-fatality rate below the cumulative one if the virus is getting more deadly?
Covid-2019
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
This scandal isn't going away. The scientist who warned Fauci by email that Covid could have been "engineered" has had to delete his Twitter account. As wild theories are suddenly embraced, it's good to see minds come out of conceptual lockdown -- but there is the danger of swinging to a new kind of panic.
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Monday, June 7, 2021
Absurd at this point -- a tragic asterisk in the record books. Asymptomatic golfer Jon Rahm tests positive for Covid on live TV, knocked out of PGA tournament he was dominating, and no chance to be retested.
Covid-2019
Sunday, June 6, 2021
We've had our infection waves, flowing and ebbing. But never before have we seen what we see today: a two-week downtrend in new Covid cases in all 52 US states and territories.