1. ) Should We Try to Reopen Schools? Only If We Do It Right, Unlike Our Rush to Reopen The Economy. And with cases rising rapidly in dozens of states, I just don't see it happening. We're headed in the absolute wrong direction right now...but reopening schools is a worthy goal to consider. If Trump …
ESSENTIAL is the new EXPENDABLE.
From Andy Slavitt, former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services"If someone tells you you’re “essential,” you’re going to want to run the other way. Because “essential” now means underpaid, unappreciated, sacrificial & there to serve everyone else. In the future, definitions in @Dictionarycom are going to need to include what “essential worker” came to …
A Cautionary Tale of Two Countries
I see a frightening parallel between Sweden's coronavirus strategy and what's currently happening in the United States. —The U.S. leads the world in deaths, cases and hospitalizations...with no end in sight. —Sweden never locked down its population. Life continued as normal (sort of). Per million people, Sweden has suffered 40 percent more deaths than the …
PREDICTIONS FOR THE SUMMER AND EARLY FALL
IN ROUGH ESSAY FORMCases will continue to skyrocket for another two weeks and plateau for the rest of the summer, as heavily impacted and emerging outbreak states tap on the brakes—but don't pull the emergency brake required to crush their outbreaks. —Please keep in mind. This prediction does not just apply to today's most impacted …
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HOW THE SECOND SURGE OF THE FIRST WAVE WILL CRIPPLE THE NATION’S ECONOMIC RECOVERY
Credit card data and other economic markers (Open Table reservations) during late February and early March demonstrated that Americans pressed "pause" on the economy well before states initiated shut downs and restrictions—demonstrating that a solid percentage of Americans understand the dangers of a global pandemic.When several states (notably Texas, Arizona, and Florida) reopened early (in …
What other states can learn from the THREE STOOGES OF THE COVID19 PANDEMIC (Governors Abbot, Ducey and DeSantis)
New Florida coronavirus record with 9,000 new cases; state shuts down alcohol at bars Texas Pauses Reopening as Virus Cases Soar Across the South and West How Arizona ‘lost control of the epidemic’ #1 GOVERNORS MUST LEARN, RELEARN OR FINALLY PAY ATTENTION TO THE TIME LAG BETWEEN NEW CASE INFECTIONS, HOSPITALIZATIONS AND DEATHS.Nobody does a …
More testing doesn’t skew the data to “make us look bad.” It gives us the critical information we need to fight COVID19.
A friend's question sent me down a data rabbit hole this morning. Fortunately, I thoroughly enjoy crunching the numbers, since analyzing pandemic data predictions led to my first book. Fond memories. The question was essentially: If we test more than a smaller EU nation, won't that skew the number of cases to make it look …
UNTIL WE CRUSH COVID19, OUR ECONOMY IS DEAD IN THE WATER.
Coronavirus Is Killing Our Economy Because It Was Already Sick HIGH EARNING HOUSEHOLDS AREN'T SPENDING: "New research from the economists Michael Stepner, Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, and John Friedman suggests that — thanks to government aid — low-income Americans’ personal spending is almost back to its prerecession level. But among high-earning households, consumption remains severely …
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Asymptomatic, Pre-symptomatic…call it what you will. The bottom line? PEOPLE WITHOUT SYMPTOMS ARE SPREADING COVID19. There’s no doubt about this.
ASK YOURSELF THIS SIMPLE QUESTION. Would you sip from the straw of someone who tested positive for COVID19, but currently shows no symptoms? Would you let them sneeze in your uncovered face? Would you let them do that to your elderly parent? Or your child? OF COURSE YOU WOULDN'T. Science has proven that infected people …
THE 80-20 RULE AND THE PANDEMIC
Out of everything I've read on the COVID19, I feel that the article below may be one of the most important for all of us to read and understand moving forward. Since far too many of us seem unwilling to take even the most basic precautions at this point, like wearing a mask and physical …
COVID19 — THE TRUTH through vetted science, expert opinion and objective analysis 