Healthcare / COVID-19
While out hunting a Chemist misses the deer 5 feet left, the Physicist misses it 5 feet right. The Statistician says, “Got it.” Please excuse this essay, it’s pretty wonky. We have now reached a point of relative equilibrium with COVID. While we still are suffering...
COVID-19 has settled down into an endemic. That was well expected based on the prior history of infection/treatment/immunization. The latest data show a continued death rate of approximately 450 per day, equating to around 8,000 per month. In perspective, going...
This essay was prompted by a friend who asked some really important questions about how COVID-19 is mutating and trying to evade our immune response. Viruses have no “brain”, they have no volition to “evade”. Viruses are very simple organisms with a very small set of...
Amie and I recently traveled by plane from Florida to Pennsylvania and back. Based on the decision by the Federal judge removing the mask mandate, a majority of passengers, flight attendants and TSA personnel were not wearing masks. It is not my point of this...
Many people have asked me “When will COVID be over?”. Here is the answer: It will officially end on March 18, 2022 at 2:43 in the afternoon. There. Official. Over. I hope that you can see the absurdity here. The game will not end when the clock runs out. The game...
“Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.” Ferdinand Friendly Wachenheimer was born in NYC IN 1915. He worked in Radio in the 1930’s when he changed his name to Fred Friendly and moved to television in the 1950’s working with Edward...
COWPOX You have probably never heard of Benjamin Jesty. He was a dairy farmer in England in the mid 18th century. Dairy farmers often had to deal with diseases in their cows. One of those diseases resulted in cows developing pustules (swollen patches of skin...
One issue that has been discussed lately is the potential value in boosting your COVID-19 vaccination with a different vaccine from the original one you received. There is some rationale for doing this as you would potentially present an overlapping set of antigens to...
I have been studying the creation of monoclonal antibody treatment centers in Florida. My initial response was that this was a great idea; that it would be able to reach citizens with early-stage disease and prevent hospitalization. However, the more I looked at the...
Recently, there has been an increased level of concern among cable news pundits about potential health risks associated with COVID-19 vaccination. It is critical to put this concern in perspective. BREAKTHROUGH INFECTIONS If you were to listen to many of these...
In 1918 an influenza virus ripped through the world. Commonly called the “Spanish Flu”, the death totals were huge. The equivalent deaths worldwide today would have been over 115 million, and over 2 million deaths in the US. What was particularly unusual is that the...
The thing about Science is that it is true whether your believe it or not. (A heads up: No. There is no Epsilon variant circulating.) The single most important thing about those people refusing vaccinations is that not that they are taking their own risk of...