I’ve been overweight for about 30 years. Or at least, I’ve been over the “correct” BMI for my height. I doubt I’ll ever hit the official ideal weight on the NHS tables — and honestly, I don’t care. If anything, what I illustrate is that the definitions of what is and isn’t a healthy weight … Read more
The US is at a turning point in the fight against CV-19. Deaths are still falling, but new infections are rising again as states re-open economic activity cheered on by the White House. The big risk for the US is that CV-19 takes hold in the large rural populations, which already suffer from high levels … Read more
A few months ago I wrote about the impossible task that Trump had set himself getting rid of Obamacare: Trump’s basic problem is that the US has been drifting closer and closer to a socialised healthcare system for decades as Federal and State spending on healthcare has over-taken insurers and private individuals. All Obama did … Read more
Most people will have seen this graph, or a variant of it over the last few days showing the spread of Covid-10 Coronavirus: It’s clear from this graph and lots of others in the media that some countries are doing much better than others at controlling the spread of the disease. Some of these numbers … Read more