The Washington Post reports that more than a dozen states and Puerto Rico are recording their highest seven-day average of new cases since the pandemic began, hospitalizations in at least nine states have been on the rise since Memorial Day: In Texas, North and South Carolina, California, Oregon, Arkansas, Mississippi, Utah and Arizona, there are … Read more
Federal and state officials across the country have altered or hidden public health data crucial to tracking the coronavirus’ spread, hindering the ability to detect a surge of infections as President Trump demands the nation to reopen rapidly. Bad state data hides coronavirus threat as Trump pushes reopening: In at least a dozen states, health … Read more
Update to Straight talk from an infectious disease expert on the coronavirus pandemic (updated): Michael T. Osterholm is Regents professor and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, and coauthor of “Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs” (2017). “I have the reputation as ‘Bad News Mike,’” … Read more
The Arizona Republic reports, State health department tells university COVID-19 modeling team to stop work, limits data access: The Arizona Department of Health Services told a team of university experts working on COVID-19 modeling to “pause” its work, an email from a department leader shows. The modeling team of about two dozen professors at Arizona … Read more
Donald Trump’s “shadow cabinet,” the on air personalities at Fox News aka Trump TV, daily tell the president what to think and then he faithfully parrots back their talking points on Twitter and in his public statements. Normally an authoritarian demagogue tells his propagandists what they should say, but in this case, the tale is … Read more