Games with Models, 6/15/20 Data
At this point, Rhode Island’s COVID-19 situation is improving so rapidly that adherence to minimum space between each stage of reopening is coming to seem obstinate.
Strong Responses to RIWFP’s COVID-19 Survey
Three weeks ago, Rhode Island Women for Freedom and Prosperity conducted a survey of its Members and Supporters about COVID-19 and Rhode Island’s response. The fifth and last question of the survey was the option to offer a comment on the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown.
Games with Models, 6/12/20 Data
And… we’re back down to double-digit daily new cases of COVID-19 in Rhode Island, according to today’s data release.
Games with Models, 6/11/20 Data
Nationally, the narrative seems to be leaning toward a post-rally/riot return to fear of COVID-19, but in Rhode Island, the daily update is pretty humdrum.
A Look at the Narrative and Games with Models, 6/10/20 Data
Trends in Arizona shouldn’t be taken as the warning sign for Rhode Island some insist it is, and RI isn’t in a position to be lecturing AZ, anyway.
Games with Models, 6/9/20 Data
An interesting observation from today’s COVID-19 data release from the RI Department of Health is that the number of positive cases was actually revised down.
Games with Models, 6/8/20 Data
If recent protests created a new breeding ground for COVID-19, it would have to stop an accelerating improvement of the results.
Games with Models, 6/5/20 Data
The most interesting thing about today’s COVID-19 update for Rhode Island was that yesterday was the single biggest day for testing, but with positive tests staying relatively steady.
Games with Models, 6/4/20 Data
Not much was newsworthy in today’s COVID-19 report for Rhode Island, so for a little bit of a hook, note a strange national headline.
Games with Models, 6/3/20 Data
The first single-digit hospital admissions day since March was just one of the bits of positive news on the COVID-19 front in today’s report.
Games with Models, 6/2/20 Data
Well, we’ll see what effect all the springtime rioting has had on Rhode Island’s COVID-19 situation, but for now, the trends are all in a positive direction.
Games with Models, 6/1/20 Data
As COVID-19 improvement continues in Rhode Island, we would do well to start looking for natural experiments and improving our understanding of the virus.
In the Dugout: Explosive Nursing Home & COVID-19 Claims by RI DOH Whistleblower
WPRI’s False Death Chart and Games with Models, 5/29/20
COVID-19 results continue to improve in Rhode Island, even the previously stubborn daily deaths… despite what one news team insists on reporting.
Survival Rate Hits New High of 99.6% Yet Policy Continues to Badly Lag
The CDC’s current best estimate of the survival rate of COVID-19 is 99.6%. This is a new high for the reported survival rate which has been climbing for weeks.
Age Differences in Effects and Treatments and Games with Models, 5/28/20
COVID-19 hospitalization and death rates are revealing when looked at by age group, especially with respect to government’s approach to the crisis.
Games with Models, 5/27/20 Data
Continuing good news and a few milestones on the COVID-19 front in Rhode Island.
Fear Is How You Frame It
As we claw back our liberty little by little in the months ahead, we must adjust for the degree to which our opinions (and those of our neighbors) can be swayed by the Zeitgeist.
Games with Models, 5/26/20
Despite some measure of reopening, not to mention indication that willingness to follow rules is wearing thin, the numbers continue to improve for RI’s COVID-19 epidemic.
600 Physicians’ Letter: Governors Can No Longer Ignore Deaths & Dire Health Consequences of Lockdown
Wow, this letter to President Trump from six hundred physicians about the catastrophic health consequences of the needlessly prolonged COVID19 lockdown does not mince words.
More than 600 of the nation’s physicians sent a letter to President Trump this week calling the coronavirus shutdowns a “mass casualty incident” with “exponentially growing negative health consequences” to millions of non COVID patients.
“The downstream health effects…are being massively under-estimated and under-reported. This is an order of magnitude error,” according to the letter initiated by Simone Gold, M.D., an emergency medicine specialist in Los Angeles.
Games with Models, 5/22/20 Data
Today’s COVID-19 data release brought more positive news, particularly with hospitalizations, and it brought some questions about what the death numbers are actually showing.
Achorn and the Constitution
As Ed Achorn reminds us, the Constitution is only as strong as the people’s willingness to enforce it, and too many Rhode Islanders apparently believe our founding document can be waived if they’re scared or can claim that lives will be saved.
In The Dugout: On Rhode Island’s Covid-19 Numbers
Games with Models, 5/21/20 Data
With the governor saying we should have shut down the state sooner and the unemployment rate having skyrocketed to its highest recorded number, daily COVID-19 numbers continue to improve.
Gary Morse: A Miraculous COVID-19 Recovery
A Rhode Islander who caught COVID-19 in Wyoming experienced a miraculous recovery from the edge of death after doctors used hydroxychloroquine.
Following the Coronavirus Data by Age Group
Reviewing updated COVID-19 data by age group, especially in light of recent findings about how many people have already had the disease without reporting it, suggests that we can move more quickly to open up and salvage our summer.
Games with Models, 5/20/20 Data
COVID-189 hospitalizations in Rhode Island continue to rise, but the reason continues to be fewer discharges, which returns us to the suspicion that the numbers aren’t really providing the information we really need to know.
Games with Models, 5/19/20 Data
The one-day increases in reports of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths aren’t what we want to see, but they aren’t yet an indication of a worrisome trend.
Coming Out of the COVID Shadows
The (possibly related) stories about disproportionate COVID-19 cases among Hispanics and COVID-19 deaths at nursing homes fall in a range of topics about which we’re not allowed to have straightforward discussions, and that’s a dangerous problem.
Games with Models, 5/16/20 Data
A brief pause in the rapid decrease of COVID-19 hospitalizations in RI may be clearing out.