The U.S. suffered half a million preventable Covid deaths — what happened? — We can compare the effects of Covid 19 on the health of nations by examining their rates of Covid death; while there are reporting problems and reporting differences among nations, reports of deaths from Covid 19 are a better measure of a nation’s success in dealing with the pandemic than…

The vaccine rollout is too slow, and has resulted in the deaths of health care workers and nursing home residents — While the speed of Covid-19 vaccine development is unprecedented, the delivery of the vaccine to the United States population — promised by the Trump Administration at “Warp Speed” — has been remarkably slow. On October 26, President Trump announced that the administration “will deliver 100 million doses of a safe…

If we want to use testing to effectively control this pandemic, this is what we need (now) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and many media outlets report the daily number of “new cases of Covid-19 infection in the United States.” They also regularly report infection rates—that is, the proportion of those tested who are positive. Such reporting occurs in other nations as well…