Alex Washburne

Alex Washburne is a mathematical biologist and the founder and chief scientist at Selva Analytics. He studies competition in ecological, epidemiological, and economic systems research, with research on covid epidemiology, the economic impacts of pandemic policy, and stock market response to epidemiological news.

History, Public Health

Ethnocentrism and Political Intolerance: A Two Year Retrospective on the Pandemic Response

By Alex Washburne | May 31, 2022

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Across our vast, heterogenous human populations of the US, a policy or a public health message that works where you live may very well harm people who live somewhere... Read more.

History, Media

The Silencing of the Scientists

By Alex Washburne | March 21, 2022

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As the pile of unshared science grows, our scientific understanding of crises like pandemics suffers from the attrition of the science it doesn’t know. It should... Read more.

Economics, Policy, Public Health

Why Were They So Obtuse about the Terrible Harms They Would Inflict?

By Alex Washburne | December 8, 2021

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It’s essential we debrief on the harm we caused – the epidemiological harm we simply displaced and converted to economic harm that, at the end of the chain,... Read more.