Emily BurnsDec 7, 202010 minLockdowns: Systemic Racism in ActionLockdown-dependent public health policies to handle COVID-19 represent the most racist public policy since Jim Crow. The systemic racism ...
Emily BurnsDec 7, 20209 minBad Public Health Kills: 100,000+ Americans Died not from COVID, but Trying to "Stop the Spread" "We are on the verge of ringing a giant bell that we don’t know how to un-ring." This was the sober warning delivered by Dr. Michael Oste...
Emily BurnsNov 12, 202041 minWe need a Hippocratic oath for public health officials The tragedy of the northeast continues to obscure our perceptions of the pandemic, and more bizarrely, to be treated as a playbook for how...
Emily BurnsNov 1, 202037 minPopulation-Adjusted Comparison of Deaths, Cases & Hospitalizations for All 50 U.S. States-Decontextualized case numbers are being used to fan hysteria and as justification for keeping children out of schools, and businesses clo...
Emily BurnsOct 27, 20208 min565,800: Total Dead if Our National Strategy were to "Crush it like NY"It is mathematically, and morally indefensible to continue to hold up New York, either as a model for handling coronavirus, or as a bogey...
Emily BurnsOct 22, 202019 minThe Third Wave: Making a Mountain out of a Mole HillDr. Osterholm of University of Minnesota recently commented that the next 6-12 weeks are going to be the darkest of the pandemic. He note...
Emily BurnsOct 19, 202016 minYou can't follow "The Science" if you refuse to look at the dataThe colossal failure of 7 states to protect their most vulnerable populations hides the broad success of the rest of the U.S. in "flatten...
Emily BurnsAug 18, 202022 minNearly 60% of U.S. Population at Substantially Greater Risk of Death by Accident, than from COVID-19In late April and early may, New York State performed a large (15,000 person) seroprevalence survey to attempt to identify the real sprea...
Emily BurnsAug 3, 202025 minDefining the Flattened Curve: How About the Flu? One of the great frustrations of many Americans when it comes to COVID-19, are the constantly shifting goal posts. The most egregious of ...
Emily BurnsJul 13, 202015 minNortheast States Should Not be Our Models for Handing Coronavirus: Texas Should.Remember back in March when we set out to flatten the curve of the novel coronavirus? The goal wasn’t to eliminate the disease. The goal w...
Emily BurnsMay 28, 20205 minFocusing on Cases Rather than Mortality in COVID-19 Creates Perverse IncentivesWe should demand that our public officials focus on mortality rates. Doing so would force them to try to get a handle on the real extent ...
Emily BurnsMay 27, 202012 minThe Real Results of Lockdowns: Protecting the Rich, Infecting the Poor and Minorities?We desperately need coordinated, on-going seroprevalence testing, especially in places like Massachusetts. The reason is not so that we c...
