There’s been a sudden hike in the NYC death toll from COVID-19: The Big Apple’s new death toll is 10,367. That figures combines the 6,589 victims who tested positive for the virus plus another 3,778 who were never tested, but … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Part I can be found here.] Flu (otherwise known as influenza) has been around far longer than COVID. Flu comes every year and it kills a lot of people. So one might think that we know a great deal … Continue reading →
Have you noticed how many of the sites that purport to give information about how to protect yourself and your family from COVID-19 give contradictory and/or confusing information? My guess is that a lot of the reason is that the … Continue reading →
Gretchen Whitmer is the governor of Michigan. Till COVID struck, I’d never heard of her, but then I don’t live in Michigan or near it. COVID has given her a fame of sorts, because she has clamped down on the … Continue reading →
Have a wonderful holiday! Also some good news: Boris Johnson is out of the hospital. He will be recuperating further at Chequers, the official country residence of British prime ministers.
Continue reading →What are you doing to keep yourselves busy? For me it’s rather simple. I still do a lot of reading and writing and thinking (hopefully not in that exact order). That’s what I do each day anyway, and it takes … Continue reading →
Sorry, I don’t have an answer. But I have some thoughts on it. First of all, we have to re-open, although doing it in stages and to different degrees in different locations is fine with me. Not only is it … Continue reading →
Alex Berenson has been active lately on some of the Fox opinion shows, and every now and then I’ve watched his appearances. He’s an interesting guy; I wrote about him previously in this post about marijuana and its effects. Berenson … Continue reading →
Regular commenter “Sharon W” is allowing me to share her COVID-19 story in her own words, which follows. The last week of my life can’t be adequately described in words… My husband (despite no comorbidites, normal weight, healthy, active man) … Continue reading →
That is the trillion-dollar question, isn’t it? And we don’t know the answer, although the US is starting to try to find out. In line with that, take a look at this news from Chicago: A phlebotomist working at Roseland … Continue reading →
It’s only been tested on a very small number of COVID patients. But those people were all in exceedingly bad shape, and they all survived. From the Jerusalem Post: The patients were treated at three different Israeli medical centers for … Continue reading →
There’s a reason California is a good choice for such a test: The team tested 3,200 people at three Bay Area locations on Saturday using an antibody test for COVID-19 and expect to release results in the coming weeks. The … Continue reading →