Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Undercounting the COVID-19 Deaths

The excess number of deaths that are not explicitly being attributed to SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) has become mainstream news recently. The New York Times recently put out a series of graphs that look at localities that provide their COVID-19 death statistics in comparison to the average number of deaths...

Thursday, April 16, 2020

SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Mortality Rates

COVID-19 is the name given to the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus (commonly called coronavirus). SARS-CoV-2 is listed in a recent article by LiveScience.com on the viruses most deadly to humans, not because it has the highest rate of mortality, but because it rapidly becomes widespread. The...