Recent content by bchill

The real issue is what percentage of people died due to preventable comorbidities (e.g. diabetes, etc) and whether or not that's higher than the percentage of people in the general population that have preventable comorbidities. The data that I am seeing suggests that the percentage of people...

48 days? Meh. I don't find this particular story to be very compelling. Since hosts (e.g. humans) cause viral mutations, not viruses themselves, and since I haven't seen any researcher or 'specialist' comment on the possibility that the mutations could have happened inside the Nevada man's own...

And there have been!

I am not sure what clinicians and epidemiologists expect. There's a race here between viral transmission and economic destruction, both of which will claim lives one way or other. Ignoring either half of the equation is irresponsible. Accepting that tradeoffs will have to be made is the hard...

The problem with the medical/scientific perspective on covid 19 is that doesn't take into account the ripple effect that long-term isolation measures will have on the economy, which will in turn cause havoc that could cost lives. The 'economy' isn't just a section in the newspaper, and...