The authorities did not close the New York City public schools during the 1918/19 pandemic because they thought it better to have the children in a controlled environment. This is the sort of consideration of alternatives seriously lacking in our handling of COVID-19. Two years in a row, cases have spiked in the South during the summer after relatively mild springs and before dropping off in the early fall. Last year cases only really started to rise in the Midwest in Septemb

Excess deaths in the US from causes other than COVID-19 are now higher than at any time during the pandemic. The large shaded area in the attached chart represents the number of weekly expected deaths. The heavy red line represents the total number of reported deaths in the week. The difference between the two is the number of excess deaths. I've segmented these excess deaths into 3 groups. Reading from the bottom, the largest proportion of excess deaths is attributed to COVI

There is a lot of misleading COVID information out there. Much of it comes from the mainstream media. The impact on COVID hospitalizations from the return of children to school is a case in point. Nowhere has this question received more focus than in Florida where the governor's insistence that there be no mask mandates has been met with resistance by some school districts as well as criticism of healthcare professions and various media outlets. I find the governor's position