Author Archives: Andrew Bostom

Monday, 2/22/21, WPRI’s Kim Kalunian asked Dr. James MacDonald, Medical Director of the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH), “When do you think we can stop wearing masks when we go out in public?” While offering the vague promise of … Continue reading →

Still, much more covid-19 testing cycle threshold (Ct) transparency is required in Rhode Island, and across the United States ** For weeks, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo has urged mass asymptomatic covid-19 testing claiming, “We know that a strategic asymptomatic testing plan is … Continue reading →

Mandatory Reporting of Covid-19 Laboratory Test Results: Reporting of Cycle Threshold Values December 4, 2020 “Laboratories are subject to mandatory reporting to the Florida Department of Health (FDOH) under section 381.0031, Florida Statutes, and Florida Administrative Code, Chapter 64D-3. All … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 11/5/20, I was interviewed by the local Rhode Island #MikeswithMics team of Mike Stenhouse and Mike Collins about Governor Raimondo’s new covid-19 “edicts”, especially extending the quarantine period from 14 to 24-days for those who “test positive”. My interview … Continue reading →

An April 30, 2020, Providence Journal editorial by my colleague, veteran journalist and historian, Ed Achorn, exposed the hysterical—and factitious—Brown University “modeling” of projected covid-19 hospitalizations in Rhode Island. These overwrought, cataclysmic projections, mercifully and predictably, never transpired. Nearly six-months … Continue reading →

John Graunt’s pioneering 1662 treatise “Natural and Political Observations on the London Bills of Mortality,” has established him, appropriately, as the father of statistics, especially vital statistics, which he dubbed “political arithmetic.” Graunt recognized—almost 360 years ago—that accurate tallies of … Continue reading →

Students and their parents need to get off the Cts of their pants and demand these data for each “positive” test Recently, I demonstrated that actual hospitalizations for covid-19 illness are exceedingly—and mercifully—rare, among U.S. college students returning to campuses … Continue reading →

“Herd immunity” was a term originally coined in 1923 by Topley and Wilson [1] to address this circumscribed goal: what “quantity of resistance” to a disease within a given population at risk for it, is required to “ensure against the … Continue reading →

Ibn Warraq is a nonpareil scholar of Islam’s origins (see his major [book length] works here), and a public, singularly courageous, ex-Muslim conscientious objector to Islam. His statement from September 2001 in the immediate aftermath of the horrific acts of jihad terrorism on 9/11/2001, … Continue reading →