COVID19 Archive

COVID19 Wins the Race for the Bomb

TLDRUpFront: A new variant SARS-COV-2 undermines current vaccines and is better able to reinfect people previously infected. It’s probably too late to stop the global spread of this strain. We still need swift, substantial action to slow the spread while we develop vaccines that work against the new strain.

Moving Goalposts: COVID19 Variants & Herd Immunity from Vaccines

TLDRInTheFront: Currently-known variants of SARS-COV-2 move the goalposts on public health responses and raise the bar for reaching herd immunity through vaccination. Evolution, too, is a complicated "frenemy" in this fight and understanding the forces involved help us make sense of how to better manage the pandemic going forward.

Playing Darts: Explaining Mutation, Isolate, Strain & Variant for COVID19

TLDRUpFront: Science Decoded decodes COVID19 technical terms related to strategic risk: mutation, isolate, strain, and variant.

New COVID19 Variant in UK exposes Strategic Risk of Failing to Contain & Eradicate Pandemic

TLDRUpFront: TLDRUpFront: Pandemic response consists of tactical responses to contain the virus while we gain a strategic advantage through vaccines. But a failure to contain the pandemic increases global viral load leading to new variants and strategic risk. The risk is that one of these variants will be more contagious, more deadly, or resistant to

InfoMullet: Something Minks in the state of Denmark

TLDRUpFront: The Danish government has killed several million mink in order to control the spread and mitigate the danger of COVID-19. Several mutations have already been observed in the minks, and one that might constitute the beginnings of a new "strain" of COVID-19. That threatens the efficacy of a vaccine, and so it is very

InfoMullet: Bamlanivimab da bang, da bang, diggy, diggy, said up jump the boogie

TLDRupfront: Bamlanivimab is not the game-changer drug hoped for. Complexities and ethical questions in administration, distribution, and prescription remain. Still struggling with a drug that works is better than having no drugs that work at all.

InfoMullet: Moderna Joins Pfizer in the ‘Pfight Club’ of COVID19 Vaccines

TLDRUpFront: There is a lot of promise in Pfizer's announcement, but we should be cautious about investing too much hope in it too soon. It bodes well for the pandemic long term, and I hope that we get similar announcements from AstraZeneca and Moderna soon, but there are major challenges ahead in both approval and

MulletApps: COVID19 Stats

TLDRUpFront: Redesigned applications for COVID19 Stats including Cases, Death Rates, Rate of Change in Cases, Hospitalization Rates, Remaining Hospital Beds, and Remaining ICU Beds by State. For Countries we track Cases, Death Rates, and Rate of Changes in Cases. Also custom comparison charts between States or Countries that can be downloaded as images or data

Compare COVID19 Case Rate of Change by Country

Built By: Jeremiah Spaulding Built with: jQuery | Chosen | ChartJS | JSon transform of CSSEGISandData/COVID-19 | CSSEGISandData/COVID-19

Compare COVID19 Cases by Country

Built By: Jeremiah Spaulding Built with: jQuery | Chosen | ChartJS | JSon transform of CSSEGISandData/COVID-19 | CSSEGISandData/COVID-19