Like many people, I've spend the past year trying to understand what's happening with the pandemic, and I thought it might be useful to share some of my favorite websites for data on COVID-19 in the United States.CovidActNowIf you want a one-stop snapshot of how the pandemic is going, start at CovidActNow. They don't have a lot of fancy data tables and charts. Instead, … [Read more...] about Some Useful Sources of COVID-19 Data
The Windypundit Immunity Model
Some of you may know that I tweet out COVID-19 statistics and commentary once a week. One of my goals with this blog -- and by extension, my Twitter stream -- is that no one should be stupider for having read it. Since I'm not a professional epidemiologist, I try not to get too far outside the data in reaching for things to say. In particular, I have avoided the temptation of … [Read more...] about The Windypundit Immunity Model
A Few Word on Science and Public Policy
Blog regular Humble Talent commented on my post slagging Jack Marshall's science skills, and he brings up some interesting points.Don’t get me wrong, science is important, and I’ll never say otherwise.But science is also slow. And we haven’t studied everything. Science is by it’s nature incomplete. And it seems like one side of this discussion routinely likes to ignore … [Read more...] about A Few Word on Science and Public Policy
Jack Marshall – Science Dunce
Last year, I wrote my first Jack Marshall day post. I was writing too many posts in response to things that Jack Marshall said in his blog, Ethics Alarms, and wanted to cut back to preserve my sanity. My announced plan was to do just one post a year. Unfortunately that year was 2020, and Jack had a lot to write about. I recently decided that Jack's posts about the science of … [Read more...] about Jack Marshall – Science Dunce
Historic Covid-19/SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Data
As a very tiny bit of public service, I've been scraping the back-end data source at the CDC vaccination summary page, and until someone bigger and better comes along, I’m making the collected data publicly available here.This is all running on my personal desktop PC right now, and I maintain the code in my spare time, so I make no promises, especially if the CDC changes … [Read more...] about Historic Covid-19/SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Data