Commentary

A wide variety of quick summaries as we see the usual catchup with preprints of research from the weekend.

Some observations and a couple of mask research summaries.

An illustration of the phenomenon of pull-forward deaths, which we can expect to see everywhere.

Lockdown stringency and deaths have a complicated relationship.

Another day in coronavirus briefing hell.

This isn't the first time a pathogen has caused a lot of deaths.

The mask controversy has stirred up the septic tank of research, because there is no actual research supporting any benefit.

Starting your week off with even more of this unending CV-19 stuff.

The weekend comes to a big bang? whimpering? close with a few research summaries.

A few papers that focus on aspects of transmission, where there is still a fair amount of uncertainty.

We need a little balance in appraising risk and taking action.

Once again, I simply must praise the Swedish handling of the epidemic, which clearly has been far superior to that of other countries.

Another set of research summaries for your gloomy, at least in Minnesota, fall day.

This has been updated and corrected. It takes a lot of work to identify rates of outcomes for a given cohort of cases and to track trends in those rates…

One more smorgasbord of CV-19 research, can't really say it is tasty.