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...
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...
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...
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...
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”...
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...
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...
Two days ago, I witnessed how a mom sprayed bottled disinfectant on her daughter (and her bag) whom she came to pickup at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport before she allowed her into her...
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins has been in office since he won his first election in 2010. He has confronted different epidemics over those years that include the 2012 West Nile virus outbreak and...
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...
