PostedJan 3, 2021 | Covid-19, international news
By Ross Thrasher 2020 has truly been a year of living dangerously, as the coronavirus pandemic has brought the world to a halt and killed millions. We have seen the limitations of voluntary compliance with public-health guidelines, and the perilous consequences of...
PostedDec 21, 2020 | Covid-19, international news
By Ross Thrasher The latest COVID19 mortality projections from the Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation cover the next 100 days, to April 1, 2021. This will likely be the deadliest period in the history of the pandemic. IHME forecasts a worldwide average of...
PostedNov 1, 2020 | Covid-19, international news, lifestyle, news
by Ross Thrasher OMG, global pandemic numbers have topped 500,000 in three of the past four days. This is unprecedented territory. For the month of October the worldwide totals are 13M new cases and 200K deaths (both one-month records). This brings the overall COVID...
PostedAug 23, 2020 | climate change, Covid-19, international news, lifestyle, news, sustainability
By Ross Thrasher The Institute for Health Metrics & Education at the University of Washington has just revised its COVID-19 mortality projections to December 1st (http://www.healthdata.org/covid/updates). For each country over the next 100 days, trend lines are...
PostedJul 24, 2020 | climate change, Covid-19, international news, lifestyle, news, opinion
By Ross Thrasher On July 22 the Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation has once again updated its country-by-country COVID-19 mortality projections (http://www.healthdata.org/covid/updates). Unfortunately two of the current hot spots, India and South Africa,...
PostedJul 7, 2020 | Covid-19, international news, lifestyle, news, opinion
By Ross Thrasher Like a cluster of wildfires, COVID-19 is raging across the sunbowl states of Florida, Texas and Arizona. Many other states have also experienced rising rates of infection as 11% of the nation has now been tested. Statistics indicate that more...
