Another day of very high COVID numbers. More than 1,000 new cases and another 11 deaths. I know some of you may feel like, “There is no way that is right… must be some kind of conspiracy or cover-up or exaggeration” but I want to try to reassure you that the vast majority of doctors, nurses and medical staff are… Read more →
There has been a lot that has happened in the last few days with COVID-19 – both in Mississippi, regionally across parts of the south and within the country. I wanted to help summarize it all from the scientific side of things as well as put some of this into context. To start: The numbers are going up across the… Read more →
Your local meteorologist / mathematician / statistician here. I’m just checking in to give everyone some context to some recent comments made by some government officials. I’m not a doctor, but I do enjoy statistics and mathematics. This post will dive into those things. Before I being and we revisit the numbers, I used the word “government” so I want… Read more →
I’m not a doctor. Still. A lot of people have accused me of trying to be one and encouraged me – sometimes rudely – to “Stay in my lane” or “stick to weather” because I am not a doctor. But I want to reassure everyone that I am not sharing any personal opinions on any of these posts. Ever. I… Read more →
That treatment is pretty simple: Wear a mask. In the paper, “The role of community-wide wearing of face mask for control of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic due to SARS-CoV-2” authors looked at a small population of mask-wearing people versus non-mask-wearing people and found a reduction in transmission of 73-percent. From the paper: Within first 100 days (31 December 2019… Read more →
