Commentary

How fast a pathogen is moving through a population is not an easy calculation.

Two circumstances demonstrate the futility of current mitigation tactics to stop CV-19 spread. We are doing tremendous damage using tactics that are ineffective.

Don't read the blog if you aren't interested in a thoughtful discussion of the science and the data relating to the epidemic and don't comment if you have no intellectual…

A little ranting on the latest coronavirus briefing.

More research summaries, some good news in regard to immune protection, lots of bad news on lockdowns.

A chart suggests that visits for CV-19 symptoms may already have plateaued, meaning the peak of the fall wave may be near.

A few random thoughts on the epidemic, in Minnesota and everywhere.

More research catchup for your morning edification.

Suffering from post-election blahs? This collection of CV-19 research will be diverting.

More evidence of the enormous benefits of mask wearing, if you are the Grim Reaper.

A quick observation and a couple of quick research summaries. Many more tomorrow after I have recovered from too much yard work today.

The situation may appear bad in the upper Midwest, but it isn't all that grim.

Here is what I think I have learned about typical lags on Minnesota data and when the events underlying data reported on a certain day actually occurred.

An interview with the lead person on the Swedish epidemic response.

A chart shows how deaths have been pulled forward among the very elderly.