Disease

Case, Death, and Vaccination Trends 

It's only a case study, but the implications are intriguing.

“Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.” Helen Keller

Let's start with a little rant.

Perhaps that last line is a bit of self-reflection, and "we" is just me.

This type of study is referred to as ecologic since it is based on locations (counties) rather than individual patients.

But what happens if the cancer does not fall into one of the two known causes of cancer, heredity or the environmental/lifestyle factors?

COVID-19 has already broken all the rules.

I’ve written about the impact of climate, global or local, on the transmissibility of COVID-19 on several occasions, e.g., here and 

We constructed a comparison “rural” dataset by subtracting the urban case and death counts from the state totals to assess urban-rural differences.