I am Head of Product at Covid Watch. We have been working very hard to get the Covid Watch app out in the hands of the general public. I took this weekend to test it out in the mountains and it works really well! Can’t wait to have everyone try it out. Stay tuned. WeContinue reading “Testing Covid Watch on the Pacific Crest Trail”
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Comparing transit trends in 2020 across Sweden, Germany, UK
Comparing city transit data in 2020 across 3 major cities. Stockholm (Sweden), Berlin (Germany), London (UK). Can you guess which one is which? One of them apparently doesn’t have a lockdown in place 😇 Can we see how responsible Swedes are? Without mandatory measures, without having to shut down anything, they have voluntarily self-isolated, andContinue reading “Comparing transit trends in 2020 across Sweden, Germany, UK”
I am curious how social distancing is working out in Finland
Have a question for my Finnish friends. First some quick context for others. Finland really confused me at first. Social distancing seemed to be part of the culture. Walking on the street, no one even made eye contact with me, let alone smile. If I smiled I would just get a blank stare. If IContinue reading “I am curious how social distancing is working out in Finland”
This is going to take longer than we think, and that’s ok
[Skip this if you don’t like bad news. I don’t enjoy saying this one bit. And I don’t want this to be true. I’d like things to go back to normal next month. But they are not.] I believe things will not get back to normal until we have a vaccine. The various treatments undergoingContinue reading “This is going to take longer than we think, and that’s ok”
Covid Watch – A Stanford affiliated Contact Tracing app that I’m volunteering at
Hi all, as you might know, wide testing and contact tracing are the two ways we can hope to return to normalcy soon. I’ve been volunteering for this project along with some other folks that you might know as well! It’s called Covid Watch. It is completely private and anonymous and uses Bluetooth Low EnergyContinue reading “Covid Watch – A Stanford affiliated Contact Tracing app that I’m volunteering at”
Neighborhood Walk during Sheltering in Place
Everyone in California right now is sheltering in place. We have been asked to minimize travel, work from home and not leave home unless absolutely necessary. No driving to places for an evening walk etc. What’s allowed is to go downstairs for a quick walk in the neighborhood. Luckily, we live close to this spotContinue reading “Neighborhood Walk during Sheltering in Place”
What exactly is the economy?
If the economy stayed suppressed this way where almost 20% of it is idle, what exactly do we run out of? 1) do roofs magically disappear in 3 months? Do people who can repair them disappear? Or do we just don’t know whose “paper strips” should be transferred to maintain them? 2) does food magicallyContinue reading “What exactly is the economy?”
A simple explanation for why it’s important to wear a mask to stop the spread of a virus
So intuitively, when we sneeze we put our hand in front of our face right? And CDC and WHO says that instead it is better to sneeze into our elbow? So if we could somehow take our elbow and always hold it in front of our face, according to CDC and WHO it would beContinue reading “A simple explanation for why it’s important to wear a mask to stop the spread of a virus”
One of the most useful charts for tracking COVID-19
This is one of the most useful charts I have found to easily track the trends. Exponential events have to be seen in logarithmic scales and the thing we want to watch is not just the absolute numbers of cases but the growth rates. When the growth rate goes below zero we will start toContinue reading “One of the most useful charts for tracking COVID-19”
My personal experience with the current US response to COVID-19 (Mar 2020)
More than a week ago I had low fever and cold-like symptoms and dry cough. But most of those symptoms subsided. Then 4 days ago I had extreme fatigue and I couldn’t even get out of bed for almost 2 days. Very bad headache. I never take meds for headaches but I had to takeContinue reading “My personal experience with the current US response to COVID-19 (Mar 2020)”
