Wilson Consulting Services, LLC

12/30/2023

Happy birthday to Sir Isaac Newton! Born on this day in 1642, Newton's legacy lives on, giving us the universal laws of gravity, motion and beyond. His contributions have laid the foundations of modern physics and continue to pave the way toward scientific innovation and discovery.

11/03/2023

Title of report: An Impressive Recovery in Student Performance After COVID-19 Shutdown
https://wilsonconsultingservices.net/wcs_sch_recovershutdown.pdf

The objective of the report was to test the hypothesis that because of COVID-19 school shutdowns and a lack of classroom learning, it would take children a long time to return to pre-pandemic performance levels. There were dire predictions from organizations like the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund that the education loss would be insurmountable. I used the SC READY English language arts (ELA) and math performance test results in this report. In my view, these two tests encompass the three Rs axiom of reading, writing, and arithmetic.

The conclusions I draw from the analyses reject the hypothesis of a long and arduous road back to pre-shutdown performance levels because the state, as a whole, had completely recovered in ELA performance and approximately 50% in math by the end of the 2022–2023 school year. This speaks volumes about the resilience of children. See the executive summary on page 6 in the report.

Thank you for letting me share my report with you.

Report was researched and compiled by Dave Wilson originally from the Red Bluff/Longs, South Carolina community.

05/25/2023

02/27/2023

A Look at COVID-19 as a Stochastic Virus by Dave Wilsohttps://wilsonconsultingservices.net/wcs_covid-19_stochastic.pdf

12/16/2022

Awesome Quote!

“The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.”
— Aldous Huxley

12/09/2022

Statistics of Vietnam War Medals Awarded

04/13/2022

This Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month, use the IPEDS Trend Generator data tool to build custom tables and view IPEDS data over time on topics like graduation rates and financial aid: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/TrendGenerator

09/16/2021

Stats show wisdom of taking the vaccination

09/12/2021

September 11, 2021

Why is very important to get the COVID-19 vaccination?

Center for Disease Control recently reported:
A study that looked at 600,000 virus cases in 13 states, representing about one-quarter of the U.S. population, between April and July, and concluded that individuals who were not fully vaccinated were far more susceptible to infection and death from the virus.

COVID-19 Vaccination:

(1) Unvaccinated people were 4.5 times more likely than vaccinated individuals to become infected, which equates to 77.8.% of vaccinated people will most likely not become infected.
(2) Unvaccinated people were 10 times more likely to be hospitalized, which equates to 90% of vaccinated people most likely will not be hospitalized for COVID-19 if they become infected with the virus. With emphasis—this means that if you are vaccinated, there is only one chance in 10 that you will be hospitalized should you become infected.
(3) Unvaccinated people were 11 time more likely to die from COVID-19 if they become infected, which equates to 91% of vaccinated people will most likely not die from the disease should they become infected. With emphasis—this means most likely less than one individual out 10 vaccinated persons would die from COVID-19 should they become infected.

Comment:
Statistically speaking, if these data hold, an approach to a 100% vaccination of the population could effectively end the COVID-19 pandemic as we know it in the United States. Therefore, why not get vaccinated?

Computed by David C. Wilson
Wilson Consulting Services, LLC
Conway, South Carolina

09/10/2021

Snapshot: Horry County Schools—Active COVID-19 Cases and Quarantine

https://wilsonconsultingservices.net/wcs_covid-19_school.pdf

08/24/2021

Re: A Growing and Serious Need for 100% Fully Vaccinated Residents to Save Ourselves from COVID-19

I have attached a file that graphically shows the effect of not all residents being fully vaccinated on South Carolina and Horry County and projections of what the data could look like if all residents were fully vaccinated. The right side of the graph shows the current state of COVID-19 cases and deaths. The two graphs on the right side of the page show projections of cases and deaths if all residents had been fully vaccinated from week ending June 19, 2021, to August 14, 2021. If close to 100% of residents were fully vaccinated, cases and deaths could be reduced to a small number, and COVID-19-caused deaths could potentially be eliminated altogether. The projections are based on empirical data from the South Carolina Department of Health and Environment Control data collection study on 26,848 COVID-19 residents that compared fully vaccinated and not fully vaccinated people (July 1–31, 2021). I used the data by applying the concept of sampling distribution to make projections.

I have been developing charts and statistics about COVID-19 since early in the pandemic. The cases and deaths in South Carolina and Horry County were in a rapid free fall when only a small percentage of residents had been vaccinated per pages four and five of my report dated April 16, 2021 (https://wilsonconsultingservices.net/wcs_covid-19_vaccine.pdf). The recent rapid rise mimics, to some extent, the rapid decrease that started on January 16, 2021, and continued into the summer. Although about 50% of South Carolina and Horry County residents are fully vaccinated, the patterns seen now— interlaced with the variant—are beginning to mimic the rise seen in November 2020. See pages nine and ten of my report dated August 21, 2020 (https://wilsonconsultingservices.net/wcs_covid-19_vcd_report.pdf).

There was not a statistical correlation between the small percentage of vaccinated people in January and February during the free fall of COVID-19 cases and deaths. I am sure the CDC noticed the rapid decrease last January and February before the vaccine had begun in earnest and before a significant number of people had been vaccinated. For example, CDC director Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky made the comment in April 2021 that it is the CDC’s hope that the vaccine and whatever other remedies are developed in the future will “keep the COVID-19 virus at bay.” To that end, it seems that a 100% fully vaccinated population is necessary to minimize cases, hospitalization, and deaths.

In closing, the COVID-19 pandemic may differ from previous pandemics where there was a choice on whether to take a certain medication; however, judging from statistical analysis, this may be a situation where close to 100% of residents need to get fully vaccinated to preserve our way of life.

Thank you for letting me share this information with you.

Sincerely,
Dave Wilson

Disclaimer:
I am not a medical professional; rather, I am an electrical engineer by training and a statistics practitioner who makes every effort, on a regular basis, to collect and analyze pertinent data that may be of interest to the public and to share my summaries in a format that is easily understood by the average person.