Tag Archives: Epidemiology

What COVID-19 metrics should we be following?

By Mark | March 31, 2020

I get that it’s important, from a public health perspective, to track the total number of active COVID-19 cases over time. Having a sense as to how many people have been diagnosed at a given point in time, should, in theory, give you a sense as to what you might expect a week or two […]

Posted in Health, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, election rigging, fatality rate, impeachment, Mitch McConnell, public health, R0, Susan Rice, Ukraine, vote by mail, voter suppression, voting rights | 35 Comments

Introducing my newly educated friend, Doctor Pete Larson

By Mark | March 24, 2013

I wasn’t able to get away from work and attend in person, but my good friend, and former bandmate, Pete Larson, who often leaves comments on this site, was awarded his PhD on Friday afternoon. I am incredibly proud of him. A lot of people that I know bemoan how shitty their lives are, but […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Mark's Life | Also tagged 502 Catherine Street, Africa, Alright, Anarchy is Stupid, bed nets, Face Like A Piranha, Gates Foundation, infectious diseases, Kenya, malaria, Pete Larson, Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink, punk, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, world health | 22 Comments

Satanism Rocks Churches in Malawi

By Mark | June 24, 2010

I don’t know that he’s directly responsible for “rocking” churches and introducing Satanism to the people of Malawi, but I find it interesting that, after my friend Pete had spent a week there, this is the headline that would grace the front page of the nation’s largest paper. Pete, for those of you who don’t […]