Good News from 2020?
Read moreRaise your hand if you haven’t heard enough bad news in 2020. I thought so. We know we are not yet out of this pandemic, but I am not going to talk about any of that today. Instead, let...
January 5, 202102You and Byrd and Thoreau
Read moreI think it is safe to say that most of us are really ready for this pandemic and quarantine to come to an end, and with two vaccines already approved we can see a light at the end of...
December 30, 2020How the COVID Vaccines Work
Read moreIf you’re like me, you have been following too much news on the pandemic, but hopefully you also have been following the good news of the new vaccines being released. Yet, national polls show that more than 40% of...
December 15, 2020Potential Alzheimer’s Breakthrough
Read moreIt is absolutely great news that Pfizer and BioNTech have brought a vaccine for COVID-19 from discovery to approval by the US Food and Drug Administration just today. We all can see the promise of “normal” on our collective...
December 8, 2020Too Good to Be True
Read moreWith over 300 clinical trials on vaccines for COVID19, it perhaps is not a surprise that at least two are very close to emergency authorization by the Food and Drug Administration this month. Where are you in the line...
December 1, 2020Every 44 Seconds
Read moreThat was on November 19th this year…the pace of COVID-19 deaths in the United States…one every 44 seconds, or 1,971 in a 24 hour period. They have tallied “only 956 deaths for yesterday so far, but that figure will...
November 24, 2020The Other Global Health Crisis
Read moreWearing a face mask is the new front line of defense against the spread of the war on COVID-19, but it does little to protect against the other public health crisis that is hitting people around the globe. Scientists...
November 17, 2020You’re Bringing What for Thanksgiving?
Read moreRemember Thanksgiving just a year ago? It was that family gathering when you prepared the turkey and someone brought a vegetable and someone else brought dessert and someone else brought cranberry sauce. But mostly it was the people coming...
November 10, 2020
