Jul 7, 2020
America Dances (part 2): American Exceptionalism Image courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory; public domain America Dances (part 2): American Exceptionalism If pandemic control were an Olympic event, the US would lose in the quarterfinals, if it earned the right to...
Jul 5, 2020
America Dances (part 1) Source: US CDC, July 5, 2020 https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html America “Dances” with Coronavirus Back in early May I wrote the final post in my Endgame series, talking about Tomas Pueyo’s...
Jul 3, 2020
A commentary on coronavirus and fear Source: NY Times coronavirus tracker https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html#cases A commentary on coronavirus and fear I believe that one primal force predominantly drives our decisions, determines...
Jun 29, 2020
Coronavirus mutation D614G: does it matter? SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus strain An article in today’s Washington Post reports that scientists are busy investigating the emergence of a dominant strain of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that differs slightly from the version...
Jun 24, 2020
Pandemic Progress Report: California, June 24 Pandemic Progress Report: Sacramento California, June 24 Hold tight. The coronavirus is on the move. Back during shelter-in-place days, hubby and I would talk about how the pandemic felt like something that was happening...
Jun 23, 2020
Can other vaccines protect against coronavirus? Can a vaccine against a different microbe provide protection against SARS-CoV-2? Nonspecific immune enhancement by BCG or MMR vaccines: Maybe, but I wait for data. A few days ago, the American Society for...
