Author Archives: Steven Damron

My friend who works at a testing lab at a Barcelona hospital said that of the 400 Covid-19 tests he processed yesterday, six came back positive. That’s 1.5% Covid-positive from a population I’m assuming skews towards people with reason to believe they have an infection. My friend said it’s the best results day he’s seenContinue reading “17 May 2020 – Sunday – #63”

Science and technology day! That always makes me happy. It’s amazing how much we’ve learned about the immune system response to Covid-19 in the six months since the disease first surfaced. Robert Plenge, an SVP at Bristol-Myers-Squib, put together an excellent Twitter thread that details the Covid-19 immune response story and suggests T-cell therapies thatContinue reading “16 May 2020 – Saturday – #62”

There”s some good Covid-19 science going on. I’m going to get to science via the unlikely route of Covid-19 social unrest. While the Spanish Civil Guard is warning about civil unrest in Spain, it’s already happening in the US.This unrest is another huge disappointment in the US Covid-19 response. From where I sit in Barcelona,Continue reading “15 May 2020 – Friday – #61”