Another cartoon, but hard to believe?
[though none of us at H3 really believe this, do they?]
[though none of us at H3 really believe this, do they?]
Michael Levitt, a Nobel Laureate, said most people are naturally immune, and that since the infection rate in China is slowing down, “the end of the pandemic is near.” Michael Levitt is an American-British-Israeli biophysicist who won the 2013 Nobel prize for chemistry for “the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.” Although his […]
Most recent data analysis on the spread of Covid-19 is that it spreads at the rate of just of 2x per day (2.1 in one reference). This “doubling” seems reasonable and controllable. However, it reminds us all of the parable (nice word that word ‘parable’) of the Tsar and the Peasant. The peasant challenges the […]
The following graph came with a slider to change the number of people affected by the Covid-19 virus. However, there are no x or y-axis scales, therefore giving no really helpful information for the number/ratio/percent of infected people that will enable medical systems to cope. In other words, it is a rather simplistic graph that […]
A mathematician who studies the spread of disease explains some of the figures that keep popping up in coronavirus news. Adam Kucharski studies how diseases spread, but he’s not handling viruses in the lab ortreating sick people in the hospital. He’s a mathematician at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and he uses […]