Mar 12, 2020
Are the social distancing measures an overreaction? Is America overreacting? This is the number one question people are talking about today. The context, of course, is virtually every American is now being affected with some kind of loss—loss of a favorite sports...
Mar 11, 2020
Coronavirus: overreaction? Hard to believe it has only been three days since my last post, when SO MUCH has happened in terms of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In the US, ever-greater efforts at social distancing are causing disruptions for pretty much everyone, and the...
Mar 9, 2020
Coronavirus incubation period: by then it’s too late They say that the best time to plant a tree is ten years ago. The second best time is today. We’re looking at a similar situation with the SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) pandemic. Infectious disease outbreaks have a...
Mar 6, 2020
Don’t freak out: US coronavirus case count about to go way up It’s time for you to stop paying close attention to COVID-19. As a member of the American Society for Microbiology, today I received an email from ASM describing their effort to persuade the FDA...
Mar 4, 2020
Good news: the kids are gonna be fine #coronavirus My selected coronavirus report today is the figure you see above, which I found in today’s Washington Post, which cites the original source as something called The Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Emergency Response...
