Healthcare

Here is my monthly report on where we are, and where we are going. The graph below is updated now to include January.  As everyone will have suspected, the deaths have risen this month. There are 2 impressions from the chart. First, although January was the worst...

Godzilla, Mothra, Giant Ants, The Fly, The Invisible Man, X-Men. These are probably some of the images many of us think of when we hear that there is a new “mutant” virus arising in South Africa or Brazil.  SCARY!! But these new “mutant” viruses are not scary new...

Thank God that 2020 is over. Nevertheless, here is my monthly report on where we are, and where we are going. The graph below is updated now to include December.  As everyone will have suspected, the weekly death tolls have been rising since the beginning of the...

In Colorado the Pine Beetle has been devastating large areas of Pine forests.  As those forests die out, the Colorado Aspens have been growing and replacing those areas with new growth.  In the future, as the Pine Beetle dies out, new pine trees will take hold in...

EMERGING VACCINE ARITHMETIC The first shipments of mRNA vaccines have been shipped.  This landmark event should rightfully be celebrated.  Not only is this a landmark event in the battle against COVID-19, but it is a landmark event in medical history as this method...

EMERGING VACCINE ISSUES Today, the first shipments of mRNA vaccines have been shipped.  This landmark event should rightfully be celebrated.  Not only is this a landmark event in the battle against COVID-19, but it is a landmark event in medical history as this method...

There is probably little surprising in the data from November.  The news has been full of stories of increasing infections, increasing deaths and increasing hospitalizations.  The data confirms these stories. There is also tremendous good news on the vaccine front.  ...

   It is truly exciting that world scientists, prepared by decades of basic research were able to produce vaccines in record time, and for the first time against a coronavirus.   This news is prologue to an advance against the pandemic, its continued spread and...

VACCINE UPDATE = GREAT NEWS  I have hesitated in updating my notes on vaccines based on the lack of true scientific papers being submitted and information delivered exclusively by Press Release.  Nevertheless, I have heard from some of you that you would like an...

D-I-Y HERD IMMUNITY CALCULATOR Yesterday I posted an essay explaining herd immunity.  I used some accepted numbers to make the calculations. You may have questions about those assumed numbers.  So, today I would like to give you two tools; the first will allow you,...

Let me begin by wishing everyone who has been infected during the super-spreader events last week a safe and healthy recovery from their infections.   This is a serious disease with long arcs of symptoms and recoveries. Hubris will never defeat reality, and this virus...