The conflicts will turn global and domestic, friendly and vicious. The vaccine wars have begun. Who “wins” will determine many billions in profits and the fate of nations. Not to mention yours. Domestic There are perhaps 300 vaccines in development for COVID. Two mRNA vaccines using a novel platform from BioNTech and Moderna, have shown […]
COVID-19: Play the Pandemic Playbook
How do you fix a disaster? Start over the right way. As of today, America is on course to have a million cases of COVID a week. That translates eventually to 10,000 dead a week – the equivalent of four 9/11s every seven days. Add in the social mixing of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s. […]
COVID: The Poisoned Well
You don’t want to control epidemics, you want to eradicate them. In the United States, it will be difficult even to control COVID. We have been left with a poisoned well, where a large part of the public does not believe that the centuries-old weapons to destroy epidemics: track and trace, isolate and vaccinate, matter […]
COVID Kills Through Love
If you were an alien preparing to overcome Earth’s humans, how might you proceed? (Forget the titanic ships and WWII style air battles; most extraterrestrials are not as foolish as Hollywood popcorn sellers.) Might you start with an invisible, microscopic pathogen? Infect without any symptoms? Spread through the air? Confuse the human immune system with […]
COVID – When Reality Won’t Go Away
Many patients tell me “I just want this thing to be over with.” They “can’t stand this any longer.” The virus is not listening. COVID has upended much of modern life, but it already possesses a “long tail.” This “devil’s prong” will continue over decades, first through statistics of death, destruction and disability, but later […]