Category Archives: Mr. Corona

My last post, which featured findings from a study by Professor Geneveive Briand of Johns Hopkins analyzing deaths from all causes in our year of COVID, finding that while deaths attributed to COVID were up, deaths from other causes, like cancer and heart disease, were down so in the end it was sort of aContinue reading “gotta die from something II”

We’re into the 10th month of this COVID thing. Early on, I discovered the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Research Center site https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/. For a long time, I’d check it daily with the fervor of a sports nut looking up ESPN for the scores. Not so much the last couple months, so I missed last Sunday’s, whichContinue reading “gotta die from something”

I got around to reading the summer issue of my University of Chicago magazine the other day.  In it was a COVID article, of course.  This one, entitled “Trials by fire”, describes how U of C docs have dealt with the pandemic, not just dealing with the special needs of all the patients, and figuringContinue reading “sunshine on my shoulders kills my COVID”

That’s what my friend and high school classmate wrote back when I asked her why she’d given up her laptop for a tablet. This is what I wrote back: I think Thoreau only wrote it twice, but there is something to that.  If there have been any positives from COVID, it’s that it’s forced usContinue reading “simplify, simplify, simplify”

You’ve got to pay attention to a professor named Siddhartha. But this is Verma not Gautama and he’s currently studying fluid dynamics at Florida Atlantic University. In this video, he explains and demonstrates clearly what all this COVID particle transmission and control is all about. Notice that masks are all about protecting others from you,Continue reading “masks, droplets, aerosols and all that”

I had a COVID test last week Thursday!  The real deal where they stick a test tube brush up your nose halfway to your brain and give it a good scrape.   I got hit so hard by some bug in the middle of the night Tuesday, I told enough to the triage nurse the nextContinue reading “Clean!”

I’m taking the lazy way out today, letting some other writer tell you something I think you’d like to know. I’m still not good for much after some bug hit me so hard Monday night to tally up enough points to earn a COVID test, the up the nose with a test tube brush kind.Continue reading “lockdowns?”

With this pandemic you never know what the next piece of news will be, or what part of the world it will come from. Every once in a while it’s good news, and todays item is very much that. And we shouldn’t be surprised it originates from that little sliver of the Levant on theContinue reading “no fat for you, Mr. Corona!”

It always used to be ten, that being the length of the pole with which you wouldn’t want to touch the ugly girl in school.  But ever since the CDC started making announcements in February about what we need to do to protect ourselves from COVID-19, it’s been six feet we’re to be kept apart,Continue reading “six feet?”

Anthony Stephan Fauci, M.D., Head of the National Institutes for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is a hero to many. Not me. But once upon a time he was. Just as I was entering Rheumatology (’82), Fauci had been publishing the results of his breakthrough treatment of the rare, sexy, and serious rheumatic disease polyarteritisContinue reading “head Doc”