By Kevin Roche This article points out how little we know about the infectious agents that cause many of our minor illnesses. It come from the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University. (UK Article) A large number of illnesses…
By Kevin Roche I have run out of the adjectives to describe the idiotic responses to the epidemic. Those responses have contributed greatly to the current civil unrest. As I have mentioned before, perhaps the most important achievement of economic…
By Kevin Roche There are only two ways that this epidemic ends. One is by population immunity that makes transmission rare, and one is eradication of the virus. The latter is simply not going to happen. The former can be…
by Terry Schmidt Pittsboro, NC – Statistics prove disasters come in threes. Not really, but just because we are in the midst of one disaster (or two, depending on how you count) does not mean that another disaster is not…
By Kevin Roche Here are some quick summaries of news articles and op-ed type columns, which bring a ray of reality into the discussion. These I generally select because if you want the hell scared out of you about how…
By Kevin Roche Several more studies find that the coronavirus infection rate is far higher than that reported by positive test results and that all these unreported infections are asymptomatic or mild cases. The first study comes from four prisons.…
By Kevin Roche Most experts assume that some multiple of the number of people who have tested positive for coronavirus disease have actually been infected. Testing has been episodic at best and generally limited to people with symptoms or who…