Contrary to earlier reports on COVID-19 and obesity, a new, peer-viewed metanalysis published in the journal Nature has concluded the obese are no more likely to die from the pandemic disease than […]
Size matters
‘It’s the , stupid’
Messaging matters, and a year into the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic the only reasonable conclusion that can be drawn about the health messaging in this country is that it sucked. The U.S. per capita […]
Big, sick nation
Some of the roots of the ongoing pandemic deadliness in the U.S. were planted long before the SARS-CoV-2 virus arrived in North America if an exhaustive, 475-page report released Wednesday by the […]
Pushing fear
Stop the COVID-19 madness. Just stop the friggin’ COVID-19 madness. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes this disease, is a nasty little pathogen, and everyone should take it seriously. But encouraging a moral […]
Dangerous air
News analysis A year into the deadliest pandemic of the Digital Age, the U.S. government is finally being pressured to accept what has appeared obvious for a long time: SARS-CoV-2, the virus […]
Unleashed
UPDATE Feb. 17, 2021 The Municipality of Anchorage has now answered the request to review its records, as stipuled by state law, to try to determine where, if, and to what […]
Disaster, take two?
UPDATED – Feb. 4, 2021 Canada appears to have now torpedoed a big chunk of the Alaska cruise business. A Canadian federal government order out of Ottawa today prohibits cruise vessels carrying […]
Think again
If you believe a covering over your face or anyone else’s is offering you all that much protection from the sometimes deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus, you might want to think again. A research […]
COVID’s upside?
What if one of the side effects of the SARS-Co-V-2 pandemic was to make some people healthier? Crazy as it sounds, there is some reason to believe this could be happening. The […]
The killer
As the pandemic year of 2020 struggles to an end, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports the number of worldwide, human deaths attributable to the planet’s newest invisible killer is approaching 1.8 […]
