The CDC's Latest Antibody Data Confirm Huge Interstate Differences in COVID-19 Fatality Rates
The findings suggest that people infected in Connecticut were 10 times as likely to die as people infected in Utah or Oregon.
The findings suggest that people infected in Connecticut were 10 times as likely to die as people infected in Utah or Oregon.
Both sides in the debate about face masks make claims that are not justified by the scientific evidence.
In younger age groups, the estimated risk is substantially lower than the overall IFR for the seasonal flu.
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The risk for the elderly is much higher, probably largely because of preexisting medical conditions.
A new study suggests that a second higher wave of infections can be avoided.
The president wasn't kidding that he told public health officials, ‘Slow the testing down, please!’
The wide range of estimates reflects real variations as well as methodological differences.
The difference implies that the virus is much less deadly than it looks, but it also makes contact tracing a daunting challenge.
Testing provides clarity and critically useful evidence about the spread of the disease that the president doesn’t seem to want.
Since meager testing resources left officials ignorant of crucial facts about the epidemic, they made policy decisions without the evidence necessary to assess their proportionality.
The episode illustrates the perils of confirmation bias on both sides of the debate about disease control measures.
Control measures should be based on emerging evidence about the danger posed by the virus.
Competent responses to the crisis have come from people and organizations voluntarily helping each other and themselves.
That rate is much lower than the numbers used in the horrifying projections that shaped the government response to the epidemic.
The disease control agency is a poster child for bureaucratic incompetence.
Most of the items included in the CDC's 2021 budget request are important, serious matters. But many have nothing to do with the agency's mission.
Spending nearly 14 times as much on the CDC as we did in 1987 did not, apparently, help the agency combat the biggest disease threat America has faced in a century.
The leaked documents also expect nearly 200,000 people to be infected daily by the end of the month.
Early takeaways from the country's response to a pandemic
Also included is an "alternative facts" narrative of federal government testing screw-ups since January.
The preliminary results imply an infection fatality rate of 0.2 percent, similar to estimates from two California studies.
Calls to U.S. poison control centers are up. They have been since March.
California and New York coronavirus infection rate estimates differ substantially.
Health care expert Avik Roy says that even without widespread testing, it's time to reopen schools and allow healthy, younger employees to go back to work.
An emergency room doctor talks about working the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
Clarifying the prevalence and lethality of the virus will require wide testing that goes beyond a single rural county.
The inability of the federal government, and the president specifically, to deliver reliable and consistent information to the American public will make economic recovery more difficult.
Politicians aren't the only crafty ones.
They ignored early warning signs and pretended that everything would be OK.
From March 26 to April 8, the number of projected deaths from coronavirus dropped from 81,000 to 60,000. What should we do with such information?
The failure to conduct early and wide testing left politicians ignorant of basic facts about the COVID-19 epidemic.
"We're not going to be looking back," said House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn.
Surgeon General Jerome Adams wants us to believe the CDC realized the danger posed by asymptomatic carriers only last week.
The problems with the federal response to COVID-19 go far beyond Donald Trump and deep into bureaucratic inertia.
Health care workers will now be allowed to use the Chinese-certified KN95 masks, which are equivalent to the N95 masks that are in short supply.
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Preliminary research suggests that commonly used procedures frequently fail to detect the virus.
The combination of limited evidence and conflicting priorities has resulted in whipsawing messages from experts.
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