Archive - Check Your Work

My Reflections on Covid After Five Years

Some signs of hope in 2025

May 8 •

April 2025

I don’t want to be writing about covid in 2025.

But here we are.

Published on Karol’s Substack • Apr 30

March 2025

Dr. Jay was not a "fringe" epidemiologist

Articles from experts early in the pandemic shared many of the ideas behind The Great Barrington Declaration

Mar 5 •

August 2024

Confusion and chaos in mpox reporting

What you need to know to make sense of the recent outbreak

Aug 25, 2024 •

July 2024

Long Covid in Children

Former Surgeon General, Jerome Adams, makes shocking claim that "most" American pediatricians are concerned about cognitive impacts from repeated…

Jul 11, 2024 •

May 2024

Always Check the Denominator

No, the risk of critical Covid disease is not 4% among healthy children.

May 30, 2024 •

March 2024

More Thoughts on the Loss of Trust

My response to the feedback on my article with Katelyn Jetelina

Mar 20, 2024 •

Why did we lose trust during the pandemic?

My conversation with Kelley Krohnert

Published on Your Local Epidemiologist • Mar 14, 2024

January 2024

CDC Downplayed News of Vax Myocarditis

Officials delayed public awareness by slow walking reports of this adverse event

Jan 19, 2024 •

December 2023

Hawaii Island CDC Hospitalization Level Errors

CDC's inadequate error checking fails to identify obvious data error, forcing masks at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

Dec 4, 2023 •

November 2023

Leading Causes of Death in the US

Where does Covid rank as a leading cause of death right now?

Nov 22, 2023 •

An Update on Pediatric Covid Deaths

In January 2023, JAMA Network Open published a paper that said Covid was "a leading cause of death" in children and young people in the US. Time to look…

Nov 21, 2023 •

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