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CoVid-19: The Long Road Ahead

Posted on October 29, 2021 by Dave Pollard

As we head into another winter season of the pandemic, there are a number of scenarios that might play out from here. We are still enormously ignorant about many important facts about the virus and the pandemic, but some things … Continue reading →

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CoVid-19: Still Making the Same Mistakes

Posted on July 23, 2021 by Dave Pollard

Take a look at these four charts. They pretty much speak for themselves. Chart 1: New Daily Reported Cases per M people. (Actual daily cases are ~6x these numbers, per IHME) Chart 2: New Daily Reported Deaths per M people. … Continue reading →

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CoVid-19: What Do We Owe the Unvaccinated?

Posted on July 10, 2021 by Dave Pollard

IHME estimated final vaccination rates, as at July 2, 2021 Here in BC, and in Canada as a whole, 80% of the population 12+ has had a first vaccine shot, and 42% are fully inoculated. The second shot rate here … Continue reading →

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CoVid-19: Light at the End of the Tunnel

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Dave Pollard

Note: Michael Dowd’s comment on the original version of this article has prompted me to “mark up” the article to remove judgements and stick to what we know. I’ve tried to do that, below, with the additions/changes noted in a … Continue reading →

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IHME Goes All In On Excess Deaths Over Reported CoVid-19 Deaths

Posted on May 8, 2021 by Dave Pollard

This is the 17th 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: Known and Unknown Unknowns

Posted on March 29, 2021 by Dave Pollard

This is the 16th 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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Our Post-CoVid-19 Behaviours

Posted on March 22, 2021 by Dave Pollard

The Vlogbrothers, John & Hank Green, have to be two of the smartest and most creative people on the planet. They’re both extraordinary authors, and world-class science and culture journalists. They can also be disarmingly funny, and even outrageous. Hank … Continue reading →

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CoVid-19 and Human Incapacity to Deal With Complex Predicaments

Posted on January 29, 2021 by Dave Pollard

This is the 15th 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: 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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