Faux News and other right-wing disinformation channels are now denying the counted number of Covid-19 deaths, claiming that the figures are too high.

We know that the official counts are too low, because some deaths caused by Covid-19 were not tied to that disease at the time.

*As an epidemiologist, I know how well contact tracing could work for coronavirus.*

*I have been asked more than once, "How did the Doomsday Clock miss the coronavirus?" The truth is that it didn’t.* It identified political denigration of science as the underlying threat.

The US does not have enough trained contact tracers to cope with the consequences of reopening business.

Here, I suspect, is where the experience with SARS 20 years ago aided the Asian countries that it hit. They made sure they had a contact-tracing system ready to activate when the next new disease came. Business-dominated countries, where the cult of the invisible hand is the established church, decided to spare the expense.

Sanders continues to press for any Covid-19 vaccine to be free.