Your Community and COVID-19: How to Make Sense of the Numbers Where You Live

A map of cumulative known cases of COVID-19 in the U.S., as of June 12th, 2020.

(Screenshot of Johns Hopkins' COVID-19 tracking dashboard at https://rb.gy/qtjbay)


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Randy Dotinga
Randy Dotinga is former president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, a non-profit association of freelance writers and non-fiction authors. He has been a freelance writer since 1999 and specializes in health/medicine, politics, books, and the odd and unusual. You can follow him at @rdotinga.
Coronavirus Misinformation: How You Can Fight Back

Turn yourself into a source of coronavirus facts and a bulwark against the fake, misleading and fraudulent.

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Randy Dotinga is former president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, a non-profit association of freelance writers and non-fiction authors. He has been a freelance writer since 1999 and specializes in health/medicine, politics, books, and the odd and unusual. You can follow him at @rdotinga.
Americans Fell for a Theranos-Style Scam 100 Years Ago. Will We Ever Learn?

Medical scams like Theranos are as American as America itself.

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Randy Dotinga
Randy Dotinga is former president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, a non-profit association of freelance writers and non-fiction authors. He has been a freelance writer since 1999 and specializes in health/medicine, politics, books, and the odd and unusual. You can follow him at @rdotinga.