And so at last the pandemic comes full circle. Only this time it is doctors pushing the idea that the pandemic is over and many people should now be declared dead “with […]
Armed and safer
News analysis A national survey of American gun owners conducted by a business professor at liberal Georgetown University is suggesting that the oft-repeated conclusion that a firearm makes your home more dangerous […]
Natural defenses
If you are among the minority of Americans yet to catch the pandemic disease Covid-19, or one of the majority who suffered a very mild case, thank your T cells. The all-around, […]
Covid-filled spaces
More than two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control has finally decided it might be time to do something about building ventilation. Now retired Anchorage plumber Jeff Cooper […]
The real problem
More bad news about the long-term effects of the pandemic has emerged from Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Ohio State University, and it isn’t about long-Covid. It’s worse. Publishing in peer-reviewed Clinical Obesity, […]
Radical pandemic shifts
Even as Covid-19-infection rates skyrocket, Iceland – the North Atlantic island nation that once believed it could test and isolate to ensure the safety of its citizens until the Covid-19 causing SARS-CoV-2 […]
Viral tsunami
As people around the Pacific Rim started the week pondering the largely unpredictable, subterranean forces that spawned a new volcanic island and sent a tsunami racing across the ocean, the entire world […]
Cheating death
President Joe Biden might want to believe the nation is facing a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,’‘ but the reality is that the United States is largely facing the same pandemic of […]
COVID stalks elderly
If you’re an older Alaskan and you’re not doing your best to hide from the SARS-CoV-2 virus these days, you haven’t been paying attention. The seven-day moving average for infections that develop […]
No simple solution
Strangely enough, the best reason for the still unvaccinated to get vaccinated against Covid-19 today is the fading efficiency of the vaccines. Why? Because though a New England Journal of Medicine study […]