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: […]
Disease targets
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 […]
The COVID divide
Eight months into the global disaster of a lifetime, maybe it is time Americans stop hating on each other and accept that no one has the perfect answer for how to deal […]
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 […]
Fat’s danger
The way Chinese scientists are portraying obesity in these times of COVID-19, one could almost come to view it as a new chronic disease. “Obesity,” they wrote in a peer-reviewed paper […]
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 […]
SES who?
News analysis Almost 100 years ago in a now little read short story titled “The Rich Boy,” the late American author F. Scott Fitzgerald observed that the rich “are different from you […]
The cubicle class
Few ideas are more dear to Americans than the belief that they live in a society free of class, and nothing in modern times has done a better job of putting a […]
We were warned
How long have doctors been warning us about the risks of obesity? Long before the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, they were cautioning against a dangerous epidemic tied to our visibly spreading waistlines. “Will All […]
