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...
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...
I talk to a lot of people who wonder and sometimes get upset at the panic and drama surrounding the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The yearly flu, they argue, kills a lot more people yet...
Deborah L. Birx, M.D., the coronavirus response coordinator in the White House at yesterday’s White House press conference noted that results of people tested for the coronavirus in the US look very similar to...
A disease is endemic when it is usually present in a community at an observed baseline level. That disease becomes an epidemic when there is a sudden increase in the number of cases than...
Bacterial and viral infections generally affect immunocompromised individuals (sick people) more than the healthy public. Such is the case with the 2019 novel coronavirus which is infecting the sick and elderly more as seen...
In 1918, H1N1, a virus that originated from birds infected at least 500 million people worldwide, killing 675,000 here in the US which is about as many people estimated to have died in the...
