The coronavirus is a very contagious disease.  In January, information coming from the Wuhan region suggested that an infected person could infect two to three others — a frightening exponential growth rate.  That may have led to Angela Merkel announcing up to 70% of Germany's population — around 58 million people — might catch the coronavirus.  Merkel said this even though 70% of China's population — 1,006,363,300 — people did not get infected.  Had Merkel paid attention to Nobel laureate Michael Levitt, she might not have said anything so foolish and frightening. Levitt is an American-British-Israeli biophysicist and a structural biology professor at Stanford.  Although he's not a virologist or an infectious disease specialist, he is a very good number-cruncher.  As the infection seemed to crest in Wuhan, Levitt concluded that the numbers were encouraging...(Read Full Post)