[Note: A shorter, revised and on a few issues more up to date version of this piece has been published by Quillette as a four-part essay. The version on Quillette is more polished and a bit less polemical, but this…
[Note: A shorter, revised and on a few issues more up to date version of this piece has been published by Quillette as a four-part essay. The version on Quillette is more polished and a bit less polemical, but this…
As you probably know, for the past few months, a controversy has been raging about hydroxychloroquine. Some people think it’s effective to treat COVID-19, whereas others think it doesn’t work or even that it’s harmful. One might have thought that…
As you probably know if you’ve been following the discussions regarding the best way to deal with the pandemic, there has been a fierce debate about whether allowing the epidemic to run its course until we’ve reached « herd immunity » and…
[Note: This is a guest post by @jeuasommenulle, who usually talks mostly about banking on Twitter, but has been tweeting a lot about the reproduction number of COVID-19 lately. He recently told me that he’d been working on a model…
In my previous blog post, where I argued that we didn’t really know what was going on, I distinguished between two hypotheses: The conclusion of this discussion is that, unfortunately, it’ not clear that even the data on the number…
[Note: This is a translation of the post I published in French yesterday. I wrote the translation very quickly, so there may be mistakes here and there, but on the whole it should be okay, although I am by no…
Le billet que j’ai publié la semaine dernière a connu un succès qui m’a surpris, puisqu’il a désormais été vu plus de 50 000 fois. Malheureusement, quand on voit le nombre de gens qui ont continué à sortir comme si…
I published a post in French on the coronavirus yesterday that, ironically, went completely viral. I don’t have time to translate the whole thing, and there are already many great resources on the topic available in English, but if you…
Depuis quelques semaines, mais surtout ces derniers jours, j’ai eu plusieurs discussions au sujet du coronavirus qui m’ont convaincu que la plupart des gens ne prennent pas du tout la mesure du problème. J’ai donc résolu d’écrire un billet pour…