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 […]
Think again
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 […]
Disease targets
With a reportedly effective vaccine for COVID-19 promising to help torpedo the largest pandemic in 100 years, is America’s biggest health problem soon to be ignored once again? But first another question: […]
Protect yourself
Evermore the evidence builds that the way to protect yourself from the potentially deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus stalking the planet is to stay as far away as possible from other people, any […]
How we die
Before COVID-19 changed the world as we knew it six months back, a man named Tom Rach – most likely unknown to anyone reading this – was preparing to attend his 50th […]
Goin’ crazy
Few know better the dangers of enforced isolation than old-time Alaskans. Tales of “cabin fever” among those locked into the wilderness by the onset of winter are the stuff of legend in […]
Who is dying?
Medical researchers have been telling Americans for a long, long time that the sedentary lifestyle and poor eating habits lead down the road to premature death, and now the SARS-CoV-2 virus is […]
The good news
In the overall scheme of life, Alaska came through the first wave of the global pandemic basically untouched, according to a June summary from the state Division of Public Health. The agency’s […]
Against the tide
On the same Monday in June, two studies emerged challenging most of what everyone thinks we know about the battle against the deadly pandemic SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, and both suggest a fundamental frailty […]
