Healthcare
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...
The data are now coming in, and as we have expected the dangers from getting even mild cases of COVID-19 are severe. Any potential risks from vaccination are microscopic compared to the risks associated with infection from the virus. Here is the latest information:...
On the morning of August 29, 2005, at 5 am, an hour before hurricane Katrina struck land near New Orleans, the US Army Corps of Engineers received a report that the levees of the 17th Street Canal, the city’s largest drainage canal, had been breached. Within 24 hours...
Case #1: Make it harder for citizens to vote by mail. Republican legislatures around the country are passing bills to make it more difficult to vote by mail by requiring new applications each voting cycle, increasing ID rules, etc. The problem is that except for...
I have written in the past, in regard to the issue of Pregnant women getting vaccinated, about the risk/benefit value of vaccination over potential infection. I have argued that any potential risk associated with vaccination is tiny compared to the risks of...
Since this question arises, and specifically because the answer is complex, I thought it might be worthwhile to look at why immunization is so important. Short answer: YES! I remember a conversation I had, years ago with a successful businessman who had grown his...
There is mostly very good news this month. Attached are my regular charts, updated. I would like to point out a couple of things. You can see in the Testing Chart that we have begun to see a drop in positive tests. Unfortunately, we are also seeing a drop in the...
There is a wonderful piece of information emerging from the pandemic in this country. Between January 15 and February 15, the number of hospitalizations for COVID across the country has dropped from 127,235 to 65,455 and drop of around 50%. Although the raw number is...
Anyone who has visited the Galapagos will remember seeing the Flightless Cormorants. These big sea birds have evolved to have very small, non-functioning wings. This type of mutation in most other parts of the world would have resulted in birds with a decreased...
We have seen the emergence of several variants of the COVID-19 virus. They have what seem to be strange names. As a beginning, let’s look at 3 of them: THE ORIGINAL CHINA VARIANT called “G”: D614G THE DENMARK MUTATION: L452R. THE “Eeek”: MUTATION: E484K What does...