A recent working paper from the Center for Health Economics and Policy Studies (CHEPS) concluding that the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally led to over 250k new..
It takes a special kind of magic to make South Dakota the pandemic poster child. With only eleven people per square mile, the state has..
In the past week, both the FDA and the CDC have collapsed to the pavement. Scientific rigor has been cast as Deep State conspiracy. Its..
A surveillance state might not be an ideal place to live, but it sure makes for great epidemiology. In a Big Brother tour-de-force, Chinese epidemiologists..
In wildness is the preservation of the world. - Henry David Thoreau For three days, the invisible virus disappeared. High in the Beartooth Wilderness, masks..
The term herd immunity is tossed around as the ultimate endgame for the pandemic, the magic moment that allows us to go back to normal...
The daily tick of two numbers has become a national obsession. We count deaths and cases like some sort of pandemic weather report, a grim..
Scientists are trained to be scrupulously apolitical. To reveal a political leaning is to raise the possibility of bias, the poisoned fruit of science. So,..
COVID-19 continues to surprise and confound, but, over the course of the pandemic, epidemiologists have come to a consensus on several facts about the spread..
We are all waiting for the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. It might take a year. It might take two. But it might be wise to prepare for..