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IMHE Lowers COVID-19 U.S. Death Projection Again, Now Down to 60,000

  While MSNBC hosts were busy spreading conspiracy theories, the doomsday forecasters were revising their numbers again: The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) model cited by the White House Coronavirus Task Force lowered its projections for coronavirus deaths in the U.S. by 25 percent from 81,766 to 60,415 early Wednesday morning. The IHME […]

COVID-19: The Fight Against Fear

  Mike Rowe: “We’re told to fall in line, trust the experts, and wait patiently for the all clear. Okay, fine. But for how long? What are the criteria for turning the country back on?” Many conservatives have become gun-shy about the COVID-19 outbreak. They don’t want to seem dismissive of the threat, or to […]

Coronavirus ‘Myths’ and Real Numbers

The stated purpose of stay-at-home orders and “social distancing” guidelines was to “flatten the curve” of the coronavirus pandemic, to prevent a sudden surge of hospital cases that would exceed the available resources. Slowing the spread of the disease, however, does not mean that widespread infection can be permanently avoided, nor does it mean that […]

N95 Mask Supply: 3M Is Not the Bad Guy (and Neither Is President Trump)

  Yesterday, President Trump invoked his executive power as Commander-in-Chief to put an American corporation under federal orders: President Trump blasted the company 3M in a tweet Thursday evening, after invoking the Defense Production Act to force the company to produce face masks. N95 face masks are critical for health care workers on the front […]

MSNBC’s Doomsday Crisis Theme

Today, I watched MSNBC (so you don’t have to), and it is difficult to find the words to describe how bad their coverage is. What is obvious — if you could just stand to watch MSNBC for a few hours, you’d see it — is that they are invested in the idea that the coronavirus […]

Crazy People Are Dangerous

  Coronavirus terrorism in a Maryland hospital: A Hagerstown man has been charged with Threat of Mass Violence in connection to an incident at Meritus Medical Center. On Tuesday, March 24, 2020, at approximately 4:30 PM, a Deputy, assigned to work at Meritus Medical Center, assisted hospital security with an aggressive male. The male, identified […]

Non-Essential Worker Update: #Coronavirus Crisis Boomerang Edition

  Florida is now under a statewide “stay-at-home” order because journalists kept whining about the Republican governor not doing it: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday ordered his 21 million residents across the state to stay home for 30 days because of the coronavirus pandemic, saying the “national pause” dictated by the White House pushed […]

Worse Before It Gets Better: Statistical Risk and the Wuhan Coronavirus

  For three consecutive days, Italy has reported declining numbers of new coronavirus cases, so that Monday’s number (4,050 new cases) was the lowest they have reported since March 17. At the same time, however, Italy reported 812 deaths from the virus Monday. This was the 10th consecutive day with more than 600 coronavirus deaths […]

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