(Political Ramblings from a Little Left of Center)
It irritates the hell out of me that I have to keep coming back to this topic. The latest reason is the Republican argument against providing financial assistance to the states in the next stimulus package. The pandemic should rightfully be a political issue in the 2020 campaign. However, politics should be kept to a…
Since I had a positive response to my initial COVID-19 analytics, I’ll try to post updates on a semi-regular basis. This post uses data as of 4/24/20. See below for commentary and some explanatory notes. Click on any table to display a larger version; hit the back button to return here. Selected Countries by %…
The Priorities USA super PAC released a 30-second ad that juxtaposed Trump’s own pandemic statements with concurrent case counts. In response, the Trump campaign sent cease-and-desist letters to numerous TV stations – including a threat to pull their broadcast licenses – to try to keep the ad off the air. What an absolutely brilliant campaign…
Trump continues to play a very dangerous political game with the nation. He’s been all over the map with respect to what role the federal government should play in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. He failed to take the lead in the initial stages of the pandemic and, in fact, downplayed its significance for political purposes…
I thought I’d share a few of my own COVID-19 analytics (using data as of 4/10/20). While I follow a wide variety of published sources, it can be tough to glean useful information from the reams of available data. For my own edification, I decided to hack together some simple analytics to give myself a…
Tracking Sites World US Tracking / Map / Testing US Vaccine Rollout (CDC, NYT) TX Austin/Travis Info / Dashboard TX Williamson Info / Dashboard TX DSHS Parenthetical Politics Health Organizations CDC / FDA / NIH WHO Info / Dashboard Johns Hopkins Selected News Sources STAT Treatments & Vaccines Risk Map ABC / Live Science Texas Tribune…
While the World Health Organization hasn’t yet categorized the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic, that’s just a formality. It is a pandemic. As of this writing, there were 90,933 cases in 76 countries resulting in 3,120 deaths. In the U.S., there were 103 reported cases resulting in 6 deaths. All of these numbers will…