Feeling anxious? Join the club. People are not just worried about this pandemic, but the next. Take a look at the National Center for Health Statistics survey of anxiety and depression in this country ( https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/pulse/mental-health.htm). In late April about a third of U.S. adults had symptoms of depression and anxiety – 40.2% for those aged […]
Covid-19 and AIDS: Parallels
The past is never past. As I wrote two months ago, the bungled political response to Covid-19 eerily paralleled the first American responses to AIDS https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-power-rest/202005/aids-and-covid-19-weve-been-here. The present parallels between Covid-19 and AIDS continue to increase: Both diseases are nasty and lethal in unexpected ways With AIDS, originally GRIDS (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency Syndrome), many of the […]
Covid-19: Why Not Trace and Track?
Politicians keep telling the Sars-Cov-2 virus what to do. The virus has responded by infecting, disabling and killing more effectively https://regenerationhealthnews.com.paintscape.info.paintscape.info/sleep/interview-with-the-virus/. Countries that controlled the virus, like Vietnam with zero official deaths and Taiwan with seven, aggressively use tracing and tracking. Why haven’t Americans? Here are some reasons, and why they don’t pass muster. A. It […]
Coronavirus Public Health Blog 5.7.20 Sars Cov 2 and AIDS: We’ve Been Here Before
History rhymes and chimes, and the past is never truly past. AIDS and Sars Cov 2 may be very different viruses, but live as historic cousins. Fresh out of public health school I began a residency at NYU-Bellevue in the early eighties. That New York, later the epicenter of Covid-19, was then an epicenter of […]
Coronavirus Public Health Blog 4.16.20 Stopping a Global Pandemic
What do you do to stop a global pandemic? Act globally. Viruses go everywhere in your body (https://regenerationhealthnews.com.paintscape.info.paintscape.info/sleep/coronavirus-public-health-blog-4-5-20-why-are-symptoms-so-varied/). The coronavirus will soon be everywhere humans live. Which is a very big problem. From Epidemic to Endemic Viruses are promiscuous. They infect humans and many other animals (more later.) They notoriously don’t stick to countries. They […]