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Gregory Reed Travis

How the risk of Covid-19 for kids compares to other dangers

Children are at much lower risk of Covid-19 than adults. That means we don’t have to worry about them and can get back to pilates class…

10 min readOct 8, 2021

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How the risk of Covid-19 for kids compares to other dangers

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Gregory Reed Travis

1. NPIs are not limited to hand washing and wearing a mask.

2. NPIs do not eliminate transmission, they modulate it down. Intrinsically less transmissible diseases, such as influenza, can expect to…

2 min readMay 1, 2021

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Gregory Reed Travis

Open Letter to healthcare facility owners, administrators and managers

Open letter to every administrator and every manager at every healthcare provider locally, statewide and nationally. Open letter to every…

2 min readApr 1, 2020

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Open Letter to healthcare facility owners, administrators and managers

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Gregory Reed Travis

Why an MCAS failure does not present as “runaway trim”

After the Lion Air crash, the FAA and Boeing believed (or so they said) that all that was needed was a) To make pilots aware of the…

6 min readSep 19, 2019

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Why an MCAS failure does not present as “runaway trim”

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Gregory Reed Travis

How self-regulation fails. The Boeing Case.

Self-regulation, or “regulatory capture,” is the process whereby the government allows industry to self-certify. Self-certification may be…

2 min readMay 28, 2019

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How self-regulation fails. The Boeing Case.

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Gregory Reed Travis

A320 locks up controls on incorrect pilot input

[I wrote this as a piece of humor in 1990. At the time, I was a member of something called RISKS, a group of technology professionals who…

3 min readApr 22, 2019

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A320 locks up controls on incorrect pilot input

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Gregory Reed Travis

My Hijack

In 1991 I was hijacked in my plane, at gunpoint. The experience taught me a lot about how people, particularly pilots, react under…

13 min readApr 7, 2019

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My Hijack

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Gregory Reed Travis

A drag on our entrepreneurial wing

The health care industry has never seen information technology (IT) as a way to improve patient outcomes. Instead, IT in healthcare has…

3 min readApr 7, 2019

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Gregory Reed Travis

Let’s shift the focus from fear of today to the future of tomorrow

Providers are obsessed with the issue of protected health information (PHI) and this obsession comes at a very direct cost in terms of…

4 min readApr 7, 2019

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Gregory Reed Travis

Medical Record Portability is a Moral Issue, not a Technical Issue

On a bitter cold December day in 1982, I fired up my sedan and drove my 53-year-old father from his home in Bloomington, Indiana, to…

5 min readApr 7, 2019

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Gregory Reed Travis

Gregory Reed Travis

I’m a software developer, pilot, and single father. Intensely interested in the history of technology and science and the socioeconomic arragements that accrue.

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