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 […]
Cheating death
Goodbye and good riddance
With another year of fear in the rearview mirror but omicron threatening to make a mess of 2022, it might be a good time to look back at how lucky you […]
The nightmare after Xmas
Twas the day after Christmas, and across all the lands; the omicron variant was stalking holiday bands. The gifting all over, the eating well done; The good Dr. Fauci warned of the […]
The Oo threat
The big, global news over the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. should have come as a surprise to no one. SARS-CoV-2 spun off a new, even-more infectious variant – this one named […]
Fear not
If worrying about the global pandemic has left you clinically depressed, there may now be good news. A study in the Lancet, a respected British medical journal, is reporting that fluvoxamine, a […]
The soft Americans
HIGH ABOVE FLYOVER COUNTRY – Encased in a tube full of masked humans carried on the wings of a Boeing 757 some 35,000 feet above the lights of civilization spread around […]
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 […]
Listen to scientists
As the political leaders in the Municipality of Anchorage were deciding to once more mandate face coverings as the be-all to end-all to stem the latest wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the […]
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 […]
COVIDaziness
Just when you think the news on COVID-19 can’t get much crazier, there comes this from the Chinese media: “Great clue! Suspicious US seafood received at Huanan Seafood Market before the outbreak.” Forget the bats, […]
