Blogger and engineer Ivor Cummins has recently examined the evidence for and against the hypothesis that lockdowns are effective against the spread and virulence of COVID-19. I thought that...
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14Aug
Why so many people are asymptomatic to COVID-19?
The response to COVID-19 and the basis for policy decisions can be summed up as TEST! TEST! TEST! The assumption is that by conducting antibody tests we can determine...
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12Aug
How to measure covid-19 cases using Six Sigma
The second phase in Six Sigma’s DMAIC framework is “Measure.” During this phase the measurement system is evaluated to assure that the data that will be used to make...
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11Jun
DMAIC and Covid-19
The response to covid-19 has been questionable from day 1. To me day 1 was March 16, 2020 when “15 days to flatten the curve” began in the USA....
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11May
Are the Lock-Downs Successful?
In Six Sigma we have an often repeated question: what are we solving for? This question is applied to the Six Sigma program as a whole as well as...
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05May
How to Cheat Death (Rates)
Job interviewer to applicant for accountant position: What is 2 plus 2? Applicant #1: four. Interviewer: Thank you. You’re dismissed. Applicant #2, leaning forward and whispering: what do you...
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22Apr
Let’s end the COVID-19 panic
What if the true COVID-19 case fatality rate is 50-85 times less than we were led to believe? That may be the case according to a recent study published...
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20Apr
The Perils of Predicting COVID-19
Predicting the future is hard. Predicting the future of COVID-19 is a case in point. “Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road...
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18Apr
Operational Definitions of COVID-19
Those of us in the process excellence and quality professions know the importance of operational definitions. Without a good operational definition, a metric is meaningless. An operational definition is...
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15Apr
Can SPC save the world?
As I sit here at home for going on what seems like forever, and as I watch daily press briefings where he said/she said goes on for hours at...
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