Jun 8, 2020
Advance Care Planning in time of pandemic Death of Raphael, Engraver John Sartain, American, 1808–1897. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Open access. Early in the pandemic, a reader suggested that I write something about advance directives. I agreed this was...
Jun 3, 2020
Pandemic misinformation Pandemic misinformation & conspiracies Conspiratorial thinking has been on the rise on both the left and the right in the US for years (The Atlantic just ran an entire issue on the topic). The coronavirus pandemic provides fertile ground...
May 29, 2020
US and the World Health Organization World Health Organization (WHO) logo Trump and the World Health Organization (WHO) My internet is blowing up over President Trump’s announcement that he wishes to de-fund the World Health Organization (WHO) and pull the US...
May 27, 2020
Pandemic Progress Report: California, May 27 Pandemic Progress Report: California, May 27 California’s governor continues to (slowly) devolve authority to the county public health agencies across the state. Sacramento, which earlier this month had the lowest...
May 20, 2020
Not Coronavirus Public Health News: A cause for celebration Link to full report https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr-8-508.pdf Teen pregnancy rate reaches another record low As humans we have a natural tendency to focus on bad news, sensational news, news that is...
May 19, 2020
Pandemic Progress Report: California, May 19 Pandemic Progress Report: California, May 19 I commend Gov. Newsom for his flexibility in dropping the “zero deaths” requirement for county reopening, and shifting the focus from raw case numbers to the number...
