By Kevin Roche The CDC issued an early paper on what has happened with children returning to school. The answer is what the research would tell you to expect, not much. (CDC Report) The study runs through September 19. Children…
By Kevin Roche From the CDC and the Wall Street Journal story, this chart shows excess deaths in certain categories, where the blue bars rise above the trend line averaging prior years. Note especially the impact isolation is having on…
By Kevin Roche This is a chart that was put together based on cases reported for various types of schooling. Thanks to Twitter. You can see that in-person has the lowest rate, closely followed by remote, and hybrid is the…
By Kevin Roche Another of those Twitter charts that I love to post here. Spain cases versus Sweden cases. Spain with a severe lockdown originally, talking about going back to one. Spain with mask mandates, Sweden–almost no one wears them.…
Pittsboro, NC – The Chatham County Public Health Department will begin offering flu vaccines at its Siler City clinic – located at 1000 S. Tenth Ave. – on Monday, September 21. The department urges all county residents age six months…
By Kevin Roche People are appropriately concerned about the potential impact of CV-19 on children. Fortunately, they are largely untouched by the actual virus. Those who do become seriously ill almost universally have significant pre-existing disease, which is verified in…
By Kevin Roche It has been a few weeks since my latest attempt to step back, take a look at everything we think we have learned and know about coronavirus and issue a status report, with a very abbreviated look…
By Kevin Roche Another chart compiled from the CDC routine data, showing alleged CV-19 deaths by age, compared to all deaths for the age group. Note that over 10,000 infants have died in the US so far this year. They…
Pittsboro, NC – Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chatham County Public Health Department has been hosting and operating a helpline and email address designed to answer community questions about the coronavirus and provide helpful information. The department…
By Donald van der Vaart Raleigh, NC – North Carolina continues to grapple with COVID-19. During the early days of the pandemic, the state’s strategy was clear. North Carolina, like other states, needed to restrict movements and interactions to reduce…