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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has from the start said his coronavirus policy decisions would be driven by data shared with the public to provide maximum transparency. But with the state starting to emerge from its worst surge, his administration won’t disclose key information that will help determine when his latest stay-at-home order is lifted. State health officials said they rely on a very complex set of measurements that would confuse and potentially mislead the public if they were made public.

Published: November 27, 2020This week, the latest US national antibody data covering the period from September 7 to September 24 has been published. With the exception of a few northeastern states (notably New York), most US states still had an antibody seroprevalence below 10% or even below 5% (see charts below).These are very low antibody levels. Until early October, the US counted about 300,000 excess deaths, of which about 200,000 deaths were associated with covid, according to the CDC. Of these, about 82,000 or 41% occurred in care homes, according to the LTC covid-19 network.It is clear that covid in...