Sheila Jackson “Did the Mars rover see the Apollo site?” Lee is one of the stupidest people on the Hill (and that’s pretty stiff competition).
[Mid-morning update]
Jim Acosta, ace reporter.
Category Archives: Science And Society
Are We Using Ventilators Wrong?
Do patients need oxygen rather than pressure? Are we doing more harm than good with the ventilators?
[Via Kate McMillan, who has more]
[Update mid-afternoon]
This didn’t get much attention in comments a few days ago, but let’s try to boost the signal. I just did, on Twitter:
It’s Not A Choice
…between living and the economy.
And no one gets out of here alive.
Artemis Alternatives
Plus, it considers only the extra $35B that NASA wants for Artemis, while ignoring the money hemorrhaging of SLS.
Data And Numbers
Where are we really with the virus?
Note that (as is often the case with healthcare statistics) different countries are keeping books differently, making it difficult to compare. I continue to believe that the fatality rate will ultimately end up being far below one percent.
[Update early afternoon]
A lot of links from Instapundit. Things are looking better than the models. One I found of interest is that if we can believe Chinese data, four out of five cases are asymptomatic.
Ira Einhorn
Mark Steyn
His latest on the lawsuit, in which we are still in discovery.
[Update a while later]
Here is McIntyre’s Twitter thread.
The FDA’s Death Toll
It’s long past time to track it.
Bureaucracy kills.
[Update a while later]
I should add that, when this is over, we should have a national commission to review all federal regulatory actions and legislation, and see how much of it is still necessary (if it ever was) and how much of it is actively harmful (e.g., plastic-bag bans) with little benefit/cost ratio. At least we never got that nonsense at a federal level. So it would also be useful to examine state-level regs, for info purposes for those states. But unfortunately, contra bulls**t claims from the Democrats about being the “party of science,” this nonsense will likely continue.
The Latest Attempts At A Cure
They don’t target the virus; they target the hosts.
Let’s hope it works.
[Update a few minutes later]
And now we have a new vaccine that seems to build antibodies in mice.
As always, faster, please.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Cutting through the fog about the potential cures.
I think that 95% of the media resistance to the idea that hydroxychloraquine would be effective is because Trump said it could be.
[Update a few more minutes later]
More vaccines on the way. Fortunately, as the article points out, this bug is relatively easy to target, more so than the flu. It’s just too bad that we didn’t have a head start on it.
Innovation, Privacy, And Nature
How the pandemic will change our views of them.