Category: Research

I’m still not a doctor. Thankfully, I don’t need to be one for these updates. As I’m not here to give any medical opinion what-so-ever. This is a collection of medical opinions from those within…

Read more of 7/15/20 COVID Update: New numbers, new research, vaccine shows promise →

I know some of you want me to just “Stick to weather!” but I just can’t. Not in good conscience. I can’t just sit here and watch people get sick and die without trying to…

Read more of 7/12/20 COVID Update: Separating fact from fiction, evidence from conjecture →

There has been a lot that has happened in the last few days with COVID-19 – both in Mississippi, regionally across parts of the south and within the country. I wanted to help summarize it…

Read more of 7/9/20 AM COVID Update: New numbers from the US, regionally and in Mississippi →

Your local meteorologist / mathematician / statistician here. I’m just checking in to give everyone some context to some recent comments made by some government officials. I’m not a doctor, but I do enjoy statistics…

Read more of 7/5/20 COVID PM Update: Revisiting the numbers since Memorial Day / Marches / Great Weather →

I’m not a doctor. Still. A lot of people have accused me of trying to be one and encouraged me – sometimes rudely – to “Stay in my lane” or “stick to weather” because I…

Read more of 7/5/20 COVID Update: Viral “Superspreaders” are proposed, numbers rise death rate remains stagnant →

That treatment is pretty simple: Wear a mask. In the paper, “The role of community-wide wearing of face mask for control of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic due to SARS-CoV-2” authors looked at a small…

Read more of ICYMI: Study finds treatment reduces transmission of COVID-19 by nearly 75-percent, Mississippi numbers explained, exploring what asymptomatic means →

I’m still not a doctor. Which is good. Because during the operation, I’d be too busy staring out the window at passing clouds than focusing on the task at hand. I am just a conduit…

Read more of 7/3/20 COVID-19 Update: A moment for science, looking at MIS-C in kids, and a brief update on a vaccine →

Still not a doctor. But that’s okay. Because there are tons of great doctors and researchers in this world already. This is a cultivation of some of the latest news and notes on COVID from…

Read more of 7/2/20 COVID-19 Update: New numbers, notes from WHO, Mayo Clinic and Harvard, and a note on re-infection concerns →

I’m still not a doctor. So, on these posts you’ll never hear my opinion about anything medically-related. All I will do is cultivate and distribute medical data from real, actual doctors. Because while I didn’t…

Read more of 6/28/20 PM COVID UPDATE: Doctor uses simple experiment to highlight mask effectiveness, false-negative tests continue, update on vaccines →

I’ve heard from a handful of people with questions about some of the news that has come out in recent weeks about increased numbers, effectiveness of masks, and what some of the newest research means…

Read more of 6/27/20 AM UPDATE: New numbers, new COVID-19 research, clearing the air →