Public health officials face an important trade-off in messaging. Do you provide a simple but clear guideline or do you provide one that is more complex but allows people more options and choices? Or you could be the UK.

When I first heard about the UK’s Covid Christmas guidelines that…

Countries are releasing their vaccine distribution priority lists. With some wrinkles, those who are in healthcare, key essential jobs and are older will receive the vaccine first in most places. The sole criteria are the prevention of fatalities and more serious complications although only coarsely. For instance, it isn’t quite…

Zoom has taken over our lives and will continue to rule for the foreseeable future. But if those meetings drag on, what games can you play to keep yourself amused? After nine months of this, I have some suggestions.

Where will they end up?

You are in a meeting and suddenly someone gets up and…

Early on in the pandemic, I looked at Google Trends and found that you could see signs of the pandemic from Google searches such as “loss of smell.” Here is the most recent trend for the United States, where anosmia is the general topic for these types of searches.

Here, I discuss a new book by Debora MacKenzie, COVID-19: The Pandemic that Never should have Happened and How to Stop the Next One that was just published. How should we evaluate the decisions that were made?

Who is to blame for our current predicament? Yes, I know, it is…

DisneyWorld reopened recently in Florida despite infections from COVID-19 growing in that state. They posted this video that was made fun of:

But here is the thing: why did they go in that direction? Disney had the perfect opportunity to make mask-wearing fun and didn’t take it.

Let’s be…

At the moment, the world’s COVID-19 strategy are various forms of “waiting for the vaccine.” Of course, we are not really doing enough towards that end, a vaccine may not be even possible and, even if we get a vaccine, we face an immediate issue of who will get it…

This week, a new email service, Hey.com, had their app halted (and maybe potentially removed as it had been previously listed by what Apple has called ‘an error’) because they do not offer the ability to purchase the service through the app. Without paying for the app, the Hey service…