Eighteen months into the worst pandemic of the 21st century, with a newly evolved (or created) pathogen now threatening a miracle prophylactic vaccine, one might think there would finally be some discussion […]
COVID’s best friend
Fooling ourselves?
Leave it to the Swedes – who zigged when everyone else was sagging in the wake of the global pandemic – to question the conventional wisdom that so-called non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) […]
Fat madness
DETROIT – Traveling across America again after a year of pandemic isolation, it is impossible to avoid noticing the widebodies flooding airports. And we’re not talking airplanes here. Walking through the concourses […]
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 […]
Masked and unmasked
News analysis A Danish study of masking branded as “controversial” long before it saw the light of day finally emerged in print on Wednesday only to add to the confusion over […]
Sick nation
As a child of post-war America, I grew up witness to the growth of a nation of largesse writ large. Nature is now making us pay the price. Nowhere has the SARS-CoV-2 […]
Endemic
When, oh, when are political leaders going to accept that the latest pandemic is over, and what we are all dealing with today is a new and sometimes deadly endemic disease different […]
COVID and obesity
New studies are emerging to further define the link between COVID-19 and obesity, and at least one of them offers some hope for the over-weight who catch the disease caused by the […]
Mask the cat
Forget the scare about dogs being potential carriers of the pandemic SARS-CoV-2 virus; it’s cats that are the real danger, according to Chinese researchers probing potential non-human carriers. And maybe too […]
Danger heating up
As the global climate continues to warm, it is likely to lure people to their deaths, according to scientists from Imperial College London and Harvard. After examining injury deaths in the contiguous […]
