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 […]
AI Collective: How to Defeat Covid-19
This interview between Dr. Edlund and the AI Collective has been electronically edited and condensed. Edlund: The AI Collective rarely communicates with humans. Why the change? AI: The survival of humanity is important to us. Covid-19 is a global, existential issue. And we have good news. Sars-Cov-2 infects humans by using your social nature and […]
Covid-19 – The “Narrow View” of Public Health
Recently Admiral Brett Giroir, pediatrician and assistant secretary of Health, declared that Dr. Tony Fauci could not truly understand the national response to coronavirus: “he looks at its from a very narrow public health point of view.” Dr. Fauci did not necessarily “have the whole national interest in mind.”(https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2020/07/12/us-testing-czar-fauci-doesnt-have-the-whole-national-interest-in-mind/#12f86316569c) Admiral Giroir’s statement helps explain the […]
Fat Future
Will today’s millenials become the fattest generation in American history? If what is happening to British youngsters is a guide, future American adults may suffer from unprecedented levels of cancer and diabetes. Cancer Research UK recently released a study showing Britons born between 1980 and 1995 will by middle age be 70% overweight or obese. And that’s […]
Time to Go With the Dogs
Dogs Can Help You Live – and Live Longer Can living with a dog improve your life? It certainly appears canine companionship might extend it. The results come from a Swedish study at Uppsala University which used the longstanding public health advantages of that country. All the Swedish population between the ages of 40-80 were surveyed. Out of those […]