Tag: COVID-19

  • Village Scale Epidemic Management in Japan

    Village Scale Epidemic Management in Japan

    This paper has influenced me during this COVID-19 pandemic. It breaks past the idea of looking at epidemic policy narrowly, through the lens of science and government, but with a broader view that includes “natural, social and economic factors.” Smallpox and the Epidemiological Heritage of Modern Japan: Towards a Total History https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3143877/ The TL;DR: in…

  • First COVID-19 Post

    I’ve been obsessed with it for over a month. I’ll be copying things from my Facebook feed here, and going back in time to find early posts. This document shows some plots of the daily numbers coming out of Los Angeles County. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ubPGZiw90C2dgI1bYTyWcJiNZ2NwWvZSIcgt4EJuRgI/edit?usp=sharing The news is both bad, and good. It’s terrible that we’re nearly…