Tyson execs say the food supply chain is in danger, but I have questions. We may well be on the cusp of food shortages — many smart people I follow and talk to think we are, and I definitely think the risk is high enough that we should all prepare for it — but I
You haven’t left the house in a month, and you’d kill for some Chinese or Mexican. Relatable! But as bad as you crave restaurant food, you don’t want to take a chance on getting infected with COVID-19. Also relatable. I wish at this point I was able to say, “Here’s the good news!” Sadly, I
In a viral YouTube video that many on our social feeds are citing as proof that the lockdowns were a costly mistake, a California osteopath named Daniel Erickson uses testing results from his chain of emergent care clinics to make the following familiar (and wrong) claim: we don’t have to worry about COVID-19 because it’s
The Maxpedition Tiburon 34 was chosen as one of the best mid-tier bug out backpacks under 35L in our 2020 review. I had the chance to use the Tiburon on two occasions: once as a plane carry-on bag, the other as a weekend bag for a short trip to the Rocky Mountains. I had never had
Global cases have grown by over 100,000 since yesterday for a total of over 2.8 million. The US has over 923,000 cases, up from 700,000 one week ago. Cases in the US have grown by over 223,000 in the last week. Are we facing another Great Depression? We have the makings for a depression equal
“Flattening the curve.” This popular phrase is one of many new additions COVID-19 has made to our cultural vocabulary. Hopefully, it’s something we’re all actively doing and not just talking about. But this curve flattening language is really just a new way to talk about an old practice — preppers have been flattening all kinds
The world has 2.7 million cases. Cases have grown by about 600,000 in the last week. The US has over 878,000 cases. The US has had over 2,000 deaths since yesterday. There’s a huge mortality rate among ventilated patient in NYC: 88%. This massive mortality rate is not too different than what is found in
This guest post was written by Margit Burmeister, a Professor of Neuroscience, Genetics, and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan. Last month, one of my former students, Ari Allyn-Feuer, described three possible scenarios of for the ending of the coronavirus pandemic. Like SARS, we might manage to put the virus completely to
On the morning of April 9, a truck pulled up outside Kerry Mergen’s egg farm in Albany, Minnesota. Fifteen workers got out with hoses of carbon dioxide. They’d come to euthanize Mergen’s 61,000 chickens. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that Mergen got one day’s notice that the Daybreak Foods chickens he’d been charged with raising
There are now more than 2.6 million global cases. The US has over 837,000 of those cases. The US had over 1,400 deaths in the last 24 hours. Truck drivers keep the country moving, but truckers are getting hit by the downturn: Global famine? The UN warns that widespread famine is possible. The Middle East,
There are over 2.5 million global cases. Cases have grown by over 500,000 since this time last week. The US has over 800,000 cases with over 45,000 deaths. Wealthy Americans have bugged out to bunkers. New Zealand is a prime location, apparently. Many left before travel restrictions were enacted. There’s been a moratorium on non-resident
Writing in Vox, disaster experts Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Gary Cecchine, and Craig Bond of the RAND Corporation, along with former FEMA head W. Craig Fugate, are warning of potential calamity when COVID-19 meets hurricane season in a few weeks. In short: An “above-normal” hurricane season is expected this summer, with a greater probability of hurricanes than
You’ve probably heard of the Waffle House Index — an informal FEMA method for telling how bad a disaster is (“If you get there and the Waffle House is closed? That’s really bad.”) Well, with states like Georgia and Tennessee are getting ready to reopen for business, we’re looking at an alternate informal index from
Evidence continues to mount against hydroxychloroquine, the antimalarial drug that showed early promise against COVID-19 in in-vitro work. On Tuesday, a medical records analysis from US Veterans Health Administration hospitals concluded hydroxychloroquine use was associated with a higher risk of death in COVID-19 patients. The NIAID panels formulating guidelines for COVID-19 treatment reacted to this
Writing in The Atlantic, economist Paul Roemer and medical authority Ezekiel Emanuel argue, Without More Tests, America Can’t Reopen. But we can re-open and it looks like we’re going to in a few weeks, tests or no tests. We’ll see how that goes — I am not optimistic, and judging by this article neither are
