Update: This data is no longer being made available.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 … [Read more...] about Historic Covid-19/SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Data
The Highpoint of the Biden Presidency
Four years ago, when Donald Trump had just taken the Presidential oath of office, I wrote that it was "The Highpoint of the Trump Presidency," and eight years before that, when Barack Obama had just taken the Presidential oath of office, I wrote that it was "The Highpoint of the Obama Presidency," and I see no reason not to say just about the same thing about the Biden … [Read more...] about The Highpoint of the Biden Presidency
The Vaccine Rollout is OK
The Covid-19 vaccine rollout has been a lot slower than hoped. Health authorities predicted that about 20 million Americans would receive their first dose by the end of 2020, but here we are, five days after that, and the official numbers say that only 15.4 million doses have been distributed and, more importantly, only 4.6 million people have received the initial dose of the … [Read more...] about The Vaccine Rollout is OK
2020: Lessons Learned
2020 has been an awful year, not least because years are arbitrary divisions of passing time, so there's no guarantee the awfulness will end just because the year has. Nevertheless, I learned some important lessons this year. In the interest of brevity, I'm going to boil it down to just three main points: One about the pandemic, one about Trump, and one about myself.The … [Read more...] about 2020: Lessons Learned
The Danish mask study and the evidence for community masking
You may have heard about a Danish study that supposedly showed that wearing a mask doesn't protect you against Covid-19. Since I just wrote a whole series of posts on how to protect yourself and others with masks, I want to address that study and how it affects my thinking about masking. (Short answer: It doesn't change anything.)Before doing that, I need to set some … [Read more...] about The Danish mask study and the evidence for community masking