Analytic Section Missing from Original Post What Does the Chart Suggest? There are no definitive answers for the US based behavior of the Covid-19 novel virus. But there are approximations possible that can be useful while the storm is upon us, subject to revision and always seeking the best and most complete data to support… Continue reading Trump’s Two Grains of Rice: US Corona Daily Growth Multiplier Addendum (March 12, 2020)
Category: Trump 2020 Corona Virus Response
Trump’s Two Grains of Rice: US Corona Daily Growth Multiplier (March 12, 2020)
There are well funded, very smart academics in many centers who are doing sophisticated future modeling of the Covid-19 pandemic in the US, and how it is likely to grow and morph over the next 6 months to a year. They are critical to our future preparedness. But we also need early, crude, rough approximations… Continue reading Trump’s Two Grains of Rice: US Corona Daily Growth Multiplier (March 12, 2020)
Trump’s Corona: Early US Death Rates by State 02 (March 12, 2020)
It is still and more than ever to our national shames that Federal Public Health authorities are essentially playing with half a deck on this most serious infectious disease outbreak in more than a decade. Their retreat from compiling definitively all the available public health data and testing results is shocking and deeply troubling. In… Continue reading Trump’s Corona: Early US Death Rates by State 02 (March 12, 2020)
Trump’s Corona: Early US Death Rates by State (March 11, 2020)
It is to our national shame that Federal Public Health authorities are essentially playing with half a deck on this most serious infectious disease outbreak in more than a decade. Their retreat from compiling definitively all the available public health data and testing results is shocking and deeply troubling to any public health practitioner. In… Continue reading Trump’s Corona: Early US Death Rates by State (March 11, 2020)
Trump’s Corona Watch Ongoing Post 07 (March 10, 2020)
America needs competent, reliable, fact-based accurate information to plan how we react together to weather this new viral assault more than ever. This is the seventh in a daily series which started March 1, 2020, which we will now transition to weekly reporting, as the number of reported cases grows and epidemiologic measures such as… Continue reading Trump’s Corona Watch Ongoing Post 07 (March 10, 2020)
Trump’s Corona: God Has a Very Wicked Sense of Humor (March 8, 2020)
From the first time he descended the escalator and stepped onto the political stage (June 2015) Trump.45 has repeatedly denigrated and defamed our immediate southern neighbors in Mexico. He railed against rapists, drug dealers, human traffickers, gang members, and I presume, a few good people. That was before the hordes of migrant caravans and imminent… Continue reading Trump’s Corona: God Has a Very Wicked Sense of Humor (March 8, 2020)
Trump’s Corona: World’s COVID-19 Hot 10 (March 7, 2020)
Using the best available daily data, here are the World’s COVID-19 Hot 10, the specific countries with the largest, most important novel coronavirus hotspot national epidemic outbreaks, as of tonight March 7, 2020. The chart below provides the bad news numbers for the last three days, and will be updated to follow the virus pandemics’… Continue reading Trump’s Corona: World’s COVID-19 Hot 10 (March 7, 2020)
Trump’s Corona Watch Ongoing Post 06 (March 6, 2020)
America needs more than ever competent, reliable, fact-based accurate information to plan how we react together to weather this new viral assault. This is the sixth in a series of daily updates, starting on March 1, 2020. Public Health Personal Prevention Guidance for Coronavirus Wash Your Hands, Wash Your Hands, Wash Your Hands Have Hand… Continue reading Trump’s Corona Watch Ongoing Post 06 (March 6, 2020)
Trump’s Corona Watch Ongoing Post 05 (March 5, 2020)
America needs competent, reliable, fact-based accurate information to plan how we react together to weather this new viral assault. This is the fourth in a series of daily updates, starting on March 1, 2020. Public Health Personal Prevention Guidance for Coronavirus Wash Your Hands, Wash Your Hands, Wash Your Hands Have Hand Sanitizer (60% alcohol)… Continue reading Trump’s Corona Watch Ongoing Post 05 (March 5, 2020)
Trump’s Corona: CDC’s Cowardly Lion Response II (March 5, 2020)
A Shameful Act in Five Parts Partial credit where partial credit is due. CDC has not gone dark and has made some modest overnight improvements in the case reporting information organization. Sympathy to hard working middle level scientists and health care workers faced with a novel threat challenge, and heavily burdened by a political millstone… Continue reading Trump’s Corona: CDC’s Cowardly Lion Response II (March 5, 2020)