making sense of medicine and healthcare
FAQ about testing, contagion, and the illness: Who should be tested? Anyone with exposure to someone with known COVID-19 or anyone with a respiratory illness. When should you be tested?…Continue Reading …
To summarize where we are now Since my last post four months ago there have been no major clinical break throughs until this week. The virus is spreading as was…Continue Reading …
(Sorry I couldn’t resist the pun “graphic”…) I wanted to show and explain a few graphs. I will also show some statistics and critique what they show and don’t show….Continue Reading …
(Sorry about missing last week’s post. I’ll try to get two out this week!) COVID parties I guess there is a new thing called a COVID party, where people (mostly…Continue Reading …
Scientific American online article – Inside the Coronavirus This is a superb interactive article showing what we know about this virus. It is staggering to me that we now know…Continue Reading …
Outbreaks in Colorado The Boulder County outbreak reported last week has now reached 100+ positive cases. This was basically a “frat party” congregation of individuals. Again, interestingly there was not…Continue Reading …
I have had a number of people ask about the influenza vaccine in light of the current COVID-19 epidemic and thought a post about the whole influenza vaccine process would…Continue Reading …
What’s happening in Colorado with the reopening? A mini-outbreak in Boulder county has been attributed to students affiliated with a mixture of parties, protests, and out-of-state travel. Although the actual…Continue Reading …
An online tool to assess your risk of getting and transmitting COVID-19 This site, https://your-covid-19-risk.com/, gives a non-identifying list of questions designed to assess your risk of getting and spreading…Continue Reading …
Time to stop thinking about hydroxychloroquine Finally a study has produced results that put the question of hydroxychloroquine use in COVID-19 off the table of consideration. A study of 890…Continue Reading …
