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 […]
The Numbers, Please
With Mother Nature, if you don’t deal with reality, it will deal with you. To work effectively you need data: useful, verifiable numbers. How is America doing? Let’s take a look at the pandemic. In the last ten days, the first vaccine out of the box, the touted Oxford Jenner Astra Zeneca adenovirus vaccine, has […]
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/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 […]
Covid-19 – A Badge of Honor?
Recently, President Donald Trump declared having achieved more Covid-19 tests and cases than any other country provides America “a badge of honor (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52733220). ” If 100,000 deaths (it’s actually more – https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-power-rest/202004/brief-note-coronavirus-deaths) is a “badge of honor,” will 200,00 or 300,000 deaths mark a “return to greatness?” Sadly, the statement demonstrates an administration conceptually incapable to […]
Zika is Coming; Get Ready
Zika may soon be coming to a home near you. The virus spreads through mosquito bites, blood, and sex. In the womb it laces rapidly through early brain cells of infants, destroying enough of them to create small heads, or microcephaly. In adults the virus can provoke Guillain-Barre disease, a horrible neurological condition where the white […]