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 […]
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 […]
Steal from the Poor, Give to the Rich, Harm Them Both
President Trump is correct – “everybody has better health care than the US” (at least in developed countries.) So why does he support the House’s new version of the American Health Care Act, that could kill many thousands of Americans while simultaneously worsening health care for all, including the rich? Statements by people behind the […]