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Wrote a column on what may turn out to be the biggest news of 2020, the possible eclipse of head lettuce (iceberg, mainly) by leaf lettuce. With appearances by @hels,

Here's my update of the famous NYC mortality-since-1805 chart, assuming deaths for the rest of the year are about normal In deaths per thousand the estimated mortality increase is the

As a I discovered a couple of years ago by reading the Congressional debates over the 14th Amendment, one should never rely on anything John C. Eastman says about the

As requested by @ASlavitt, here are more or less comparable pneumonia mortality numbers for Florida, Georgia and Texas (cc @Noahpinion, @JamesSurowiecki) I used weeks 4 through 19 for comparison with

This so totally confirms my priors that of course I believe it. :-) But it's also almost by definition a more meaningful result than the ones that have come out

I had been struggling for a while to get my head around the argument, made by @BillHanage, @NateSilver538 and others on this website today, that antibody test results from places