covid-19

A peer-reviewed study showing no significant effect of more restrictive policies like lockdowns on the spread of Covid-19 in a trans-national comparison. "After subtracting the epidemic and lrNPI effects, we find no clear, significant beneficial effect of mrNPIs on case growth in any country."...

Here is a recent review in the New England Journal of Medicine of the studies on using masks to prevent the transmission of Covid-19. I think they did a fairly good job of summarizing the strengths and weaknesses of the evidence and the tradeoffs in terms of public policy...

Danish study finally out. NO significant difference in infection rate between those wearing surgical masks and those who do not. "Our results suggest that the recommendation to wear a surgical mask when outside the home among others did not reduce, at conventional levels of statistical...

Hello, I postponed a trip to Cat Island that was planned in May. Now that the Bahamas are opening again, I am looking to go for a long weekend in early September. Has anyone been to the out islands recently? Specificaly Cat Island? Wondering about safety on the islands and safety at the airport...

Commentary by Ioannidis at Stanford on the lack of accuracy in Covid-19 models. Since we have a lot of other Covid-19 threads, I would suggest this one be used for discussions of the models and the accuracy/inaccuracy. https://forecasters.org/blog/2020/06/14/forecasting-for-covid-19-has-failed/

Victorville, CA is one of the biggest airplane parking lots at the moment due to Covid-19. I flew my Grumman Tiger over there this weekend to check it out. The tower controllers were amazing and let me do a few low-ish approaches.

This 17 minute segment aired yesterday on the PBS program "Amanpour and Company." Robert Gallo was the co-discoverer of HIV and a pioneer in AIDS research. He discusses the potential use of the oral polio vaccine to provide temporary (a couple of months) immunity against the virus that causes...