Month: May 2020

Santa Clara County deaths had a spike of 5 in one day on May 6, and has since fallen to wavering between 1 and 0 most days since then. There were 144 people hospitalized in the county on May 1 and we have fallen more or less continuously to the current number of 52. The… Continue reading May Month-end Summary

Today a friend of mine sent me a link to an op-ed piece in the New York Time. Here’s the link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/opinion/coronavirus-vaccine-polio.html And here’s my response to my friend: I’m not sure, however, that the polio virus is a good parallel.  There are, after all, vaccines in clinical trials right now.  Maybe they won’t pass the… Continue reading When Will We Get a Vaccine?

One of the complaints I have about the way Covid-19 health statistics are reported on the news is that they always report the totals. It makes for mighty big numbers and sounds scary. (I’m not saying Covid isn’t scary.) For example, on the day I write this, there are over 1.5 million cases in the… Continue reading One Problem with Covid Statistics

The Covid lockdown has caused a blossoming of chalk art in the streets. It’s a pleasure to see. Here’s one I saw the other day.