Chip Gibbons

Six days ago the WHO said that the drug Remdesivir "has little or no effect" on surviving COVID-19.

Today, FDA in the USA approved the drug for treating COVID-19.

It certainly seemed to help President Trump get well quickly when…

Bette Davis has some very interesting things to say about the studio system in this interview on Johnny Carson.  She praises it for young actors as a way to learn the craft while getting a steady paycheck.

When it comes to dealing with COVID-19, we should all be more like Sweden.  They always kept their young kids in school and had limited lockdowns.  They had a large number of deaths in the beginning but now they have…

I always have to be making something so another thing I like to do is make furniture.  I recently built a Mid-century Modern sideboard/buffet from a kit I bought on Overstock.com. 

I did study furniture design and woodworking when…

tA study released this week says that the lockdowns prevented 60 million people in the US from getting COVID-19.

A study by UC Berkeley says that lockdowns may have prevented 500 million COVID-19 cases in six countries: China, United…

The media has done a great job of whipping up fear and hysteria around the coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19.

The government is throwing billions of dollars into developing a vaccine and there is much discussion among drug…

While this number is certainly smaller than the actual number, it's great to see that over 1.1 million people around the world have recovered from COVID-19 caused by the coronavirus currently sweeping the globe.

Here is today's chart:

President Trump…

The number of people worldwide who have recovered from COVID-19 is now 738,500.  These people now have some natural immunity to coronavirus.  The actual number of people recovered is certainly much higher than that because several recent studies have shown…

With the media largely focused on the number of new COVID-19 cases and then number of deaths, the number of people who have survived doesn't get as much attention.  There are now over 318,000 who have recovered.  That is an…

There are now more than 260,000 recoveries from COVID-19.  This number is certainly too low given that anybody who had a case that hasn't been detected because they had minimal or no symptoms has not been counted.

Today's map from…

You can make this simple cloth face mask to cover your face when out in public during the COVID-19 pandemic.

You only need a napkin, scarf or some other square piece of fabric that is big enough to do the…

Dr. George Gao, the Director of the Chinese CDC says that the US and Europe are making a big mistake not wearing masks to fight the spread of COVID-19.

This ABC News report says that even Dr. Anthony Fauci and…