More Americans Have Died of the Coronavirus Than in the Vietnam War
A man in a mask stands in front of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call/AP Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In a solemn milestone that highlights the historic nature of the pandemic, the death toll of the coronavirus in the United States…
Two New COVID-19 Studies From China
I have two recent C19 studies to share with you. The first concludes that people with cancer do worse than people without cancer. In particular, those with hematological cancers—like, say, multiple myeloma, just to pick an example out of a hat—do way worse: Yuck. The second study says that dense urban areas don’t do any…
What’s the Deal With Bayesian Statistics?
The Rev. Thomas Bayes, whose simple and fairly narrow formula eventually inspired a vast new field of statistics. For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.It is really, really hard to find stuff to write about other than the C19 pandemic. So instead, how about a complicated post about…
Science Has an Ugly, Complicated Dark Side. And the Coronavirus Is Bringing It Out.
Mother Jones illustration; Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Bad science is a lot like a virus. It starts small, but if it’s shared enough times, it can cause global disruption. You may remember a kerfuffle last month over whether it is safe to take ibuprofen to treat coronavirus…
China Does Not Really Appear To Be Exploiting the COVID-19 Pandemic
May James/SOPA Images via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Alex Ward writes that after unleashing the coronavirus on an unsuspecting world, China is now taking advantage of the chaos it has caused: How China is ruthlessly exploiting the coronavirus pandemic it helped cause China isn’t letting…
Trump Orders Meat Packing Plants to Stay Open
A Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Perry, Iowa, where two dozen workers tested positive for COVID-19 last weekend.Jack Kurtz/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Um, what? President Donald Trump plans to order meat-processing plants to remain open, declaring them critical infrastructure as the nation confronts growing…