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 →
So, now that the number of new cases every day is fluctuating between 200 and 500, you may be left wondering, what does all this mean now and why should I care? And that’s okay! This isn’t always intuitive stuff. Statistics can be deceiving and sometimes the face-value of the numbers doesn’t line up with the actual reality that they… Read more →
As always, I’d like to take this time to remind everyone that I’m not a doctor. I’m more of a science and mathematics guy. These updates are meant as a way to turn the math and science of the COVID-19 outbreak into digestible English. New Numbers World Health Organization Worldwide Cases 5,488,825 Worldwide Deaths 349,095 CDC Total U.S. Cases 1,678,843… Read more →
I just want to run some quick numbers by everyone as the State of Mississippi continues to re-open. Dates New Cases Estimated Currently Sick 05/07/20 404 3,937 05/08/20 288 3,944 05/09/20 123 3,783 05/10/20 173 3,763 05/11/20 234 3,814 05/12/20 182 3,748 05/13/20 393 3,914 05/14/20 318 3,986 05/15/20 322 3,911 05/16/20 173 3,855 05/17/20 136 3,882 05/18/20 272 3,827… Read more →
I wanted to circle back real fast since I’ve heard from a few folks that had some questions. Here is a ranking of the Top 20 deadliest COVID-19 dates in Mississippi. The dates shown are the “as of” dates. Meaning the reported totals were actually given the following day from the Mississippi Department of Health. From May 1st’s report to… Read more →
