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CoVid-19: The Go-for-Zero Strategy

Posted on November 25, 2020 by Dave Pollard

This is the 14th in a series of articles on CoVid-19. I am not a medical expert, but have worked with epidemiologists and have some expertise in research, data analysis and statistics. I am producing these articles in the belief … Continue reading →

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CoVid-19: Let’s Admit We Still Don’t Know

Posted on October 16, 2020 by Dave Pollard

This is the 13th in a series of articles on CoVid-19. I am not a medical expert, but have worked with epidemiologists and have some expertise in research, data analysis and statistics. I am producing these articles in the belief … Continue reading →

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CoVid-19: Making Sense of the Numbers

Posted on September 30, 2020 by Dave Pollard

This is the 12th in a series of articles on CoVid-19. I am not a medical expert, but have worked with epidemiologists and have some expertise in research, data analysis and statistics. I am producing these articles in the belief that … Continue reading →

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The CoVid-19 Endurance Test: Will We Pass It?

Posted on August 6, 2020 by Dave Pollard

brilliant illustration by Nan Lee in the New Yorker The global social distancing effort has been one of humanity’s greatest collective achievements. I don’t think any human endeavor has ever saved so many lives in such a short period of … Continue reading →

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CoVid-19 Update #9: What We Still Don’t Know

Posted on June 29, 2020 by Dave Pollard

image by V Altounian in Science magazine showing some of the early discoveries about the widespread and serious effects of CoVid-19 on the body (other effects, and unique effects on some infected children, have been found since this report) I … Continue reading →

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CoVid-19 Update #8: By the Numbers

Posted on June 9, 2020 by Dave Pollard

The numbers above are my own second-guessing of published data on CoVid-19 as at June 8th, 2020. For reasons explained below, they may be wildly inaccurate, but they’re my best guesses at this point, based on the sources cited. This … Continue reading →

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Some More Wild Guesses on CoVid-19

Posted on May 23, 2020 by Dave Pollard

There has been a lot of second guessing recently about the optimal timing for shutting down and reopening the “non-essential” components of our economy in order to minimize death from CoVid-19 without causing economic hardship disproportionate to the direct suffering … Continue reading →

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The Tragic Spread of CoVid-19 Misinformation

Posted on May 21, 2020 by Dave Pollard

image from wikimedia — cc-A-SA 4.0 If you work for any progressive organizations, you’ve probably faced some situations where zealots with whom you usually agree are egregiously, even dangerously misinformed on some issue that ends up driving a wedge between … Continue reading →

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10 Surprising Things About CoVid-19 You Probably Didn’t Know

Posted on April 18, 2020 by Dave Pollard

Cumulative deaths by country, plotted against number of days since 10th death occurred; graphic by John Burn-Murdoch for UK FT. This is the fourth in a series of articles about the current pandemic, drawing on the best available science and … Continue reading →

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CoVid-19, Complexity & Collapse: The Long Game

Posted on April 5, 2020 by Dave Pollard

poster by Spanish cartoonist Miguel Brieva, reproduced in the Tyee Last week I summarized what I thought were the likely short-term developments with the virus, and thus far the models that have been developed have proved to be surprisingly accurate. … Continue reading →

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