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May 5, 2020

COVID-19: I’m Black and I’m Not Surprised That We are Dying More Than Other Races.

Blacks or people of African descent like me are sadly and unfortunately dying more than any other race in this SARS-COV-2 coronavirus pandemic in the US. African Americans make up just 13% of the...

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Biotechnology / Money / Prevention / Treatment / Viruses

April 30, 2020

COVID-19: It’s Remdesivir, Stupid! Coronavirus’ New “Standard of Care,” Lessons From HIV’s AZT, and Oxford University’s Risky Bet on a SARS-COV-2 Vaccine this Fall.

Yesterday, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci announced that preliminary data from a highly powered (1090+ individuals) randomized placebo control trial (Adaptive Covirus Disease Treatment Trial, ACCT-1) of Gilead’s...

Epidemics / Infectious Diseases / Prevention / Respiratory Diseases / Viruses

April 23, 2020

COVID-19: The Walking “Well” and Future Conundrums as We Plan to Reopen: Social Distancing 2.0

The CDC’s early guidelines on the novel coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) recommended no masks for the public and physical distancing of 3ft (1m) apart. As the epicenter has shifted West, the CDC now recommends 6ft and...

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April 15, 2020

COVID-19: Active Physicians Killed by the Disease

Here is an unofficial list of US doctors who have contracted SARS-COV-2 and died from Covid-19 or related complications. 1) Dr. Alex Hsu, Asian American male, 67 (private practice). Died in Broward County on...

Biotechnology / Money / Prevention

April 12, 2020

COVID-19: The Race to a Vaccine and the Impending Ethical Challenges

Vaccines prevent diseases and despite recent anti-vaccination sentiments, coronavirus-scared humans are craving for them. Vaccines prep our immune system before infection. In herd immunity, many vaccinated people don’t contract the disease, while disease survivors...

Policy / Prevention / Treatment

April 10, 2020

COVID-19: “Flattening the Curve” II: Is China’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic the New Gold Standard?

Nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), especially social distancing, saved lives during the 1918 Spanish Flu. A hundred years later, China, a country of 1.4 billion people from where the coronavirus originated has effectively “flattened the curve”...

Money

April 9, 2020

COVID-19: Speeding to a McDonald’s with a $3 Million Check to Purchase Face Masks: Lessons for Future Pandemic Preparedness

Hot Zones / Prevention

April 5, 2020

COVID-19: “Flattening the Curve:” Has Florida Repeated Philadelphia’s Mistake During the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic?

The Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis faces criticisms for allowing young college students on spring break to party on Florida beaches while people flee from the new Covid-19 epicenter in the Northeast to the...

Hot Zones / Prevention

April 3, 2020

COVID-19: First US ER Doctor Dies

On March 25th the New York Post published an article showing some New York City Mount Sinai nurses wearing trash bags as protective gowns against the coronavirus. These nurses wore trash bags because they...

Bacteria / Biotechnology

April 1, 2020

Climate Change: Are Plastic-Eating Bacteria and Worms the Future of Recycling?

Plastics are found in every aspect of our daily lives and because they are hard to recycle, we are polluting our immediate environment and the oceans where these plastics often end up. A lot...

Biotechnology

March 29, 2020

Design Simplification and Mass Production in “Wartime”: The Case for Ventilators

If you were an alien explorer with human intuition visiting planet Earth it would look like partly submerged in a war, except without structural devastation and human carcasses piled on the streets. Many countries...

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Human Survival 2-Minutes Reads on Diseases and Emerging Biotechnology

COVID-19: I’m Black and I’m Not Surprised That We are Dying More Than Other Races.

COVID-19: It’s Remdesivir, Stupid! Coronavirus’ New “Standard of Care,” Lessons From HIV’s AZT, and Oxford University’s Risky Bet on a SARS-COV-2 Vaccine this Fall.

COVID-19: The Walking “Well” and Future Conundrums as We Plan to Reopen: Social Distancing 2.0

COVID-19: Active Physicians Killed by the Disease

COVID-19: The Race to a Vaccine and the Impending Ethical Challenges

COVID-19: “Flattening the Curve” II: Is China’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic the New Gold Standard?

COVID-19: Speeding to a McDonald’s with a $3 Million Check to Purchase Face Masks: Lessons for Future Pandemic Preparedness

COVID-19: “Flattening the Curve:” Has Florida Repeated Philadelphia’s Mistake During the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic?

COVID-19: First US ER Doctor Dies

Climate Change: Are Plastic-Eating Bacteria and Worms the Future of Recycling?

Design Simplification and Mass Production in “Wartime”: The Case for Ventilators

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