The Next 100 Days – Covid19
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 ...
Spooky Numbers – Covid19
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 ...
The Next 100 Days – Covid19
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 Beast that Will Not Die – Covid19
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, ...
America in Distress – Covid19
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 ...
Covid-19 on Canada Day 2020
By Ross Thrasher Happy Canada Day! The "true north strong and free" has not quite slain the COVID scourge yet. Outbreaks among migrant workers in the Windsor, Ontario area and ...
Disproportionate COVID-19 Impacts
By Ross Thrasher It's ironic that the affluent countries of Western Europe and North America have borne the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic so far. Generally speaking these nations are ...
Shapes of the Curve – Covid19
By Ross Thrasher We tend to think of the coronavirus curve as a single symmetrical mountain shape. However COVID-19 can often trace other paths. Bactrian camels are rare in Iran, but ...
Quarterly Roundup – COVID19
By Ross Thrasher I hope you have found my frequent musings on the pandemic informative and interesting. It has been a cathartic exercise for me to document the unfolding of ...
Covid versus Flu – Covid19
By Ross Thrasher How does COVID-19 compare to influenza? The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that 12,000 to 61,000 American deaths annually since 2010 can be blamed on the ...
