influenza

There are signs of a mid-summer surge in COVID-19 cases, particularly in the South and West, that have

We all know people who said, “I had COVID, but it wasn’t too bad after the first couple of days.  After that, I had a cough and was tired for maybe a week.  Pretty much like the flu.” 

Dr. Anthony Fauci, along with two of his colleagues at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has written a long, science-filled piece on the hurdles of creating a vaccine against some viruses, particularly COVID-19.

   

Here is the data on those patients hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed influenza for the State of New York. As of this moment, we have 1,224 hospitalizations.

What do you mean by a mask?

One of the risks of being alive is getting infected with a nasty microorganism. The coronavirus pandemic has proven that, despite the triumph of biomedical science over many common ailments, some diseases are nearly impossible to stop.

The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has been the source of never-ending surprises, all of which have been very bad.

We have gotten used to trolls and political ideologues spreading misinformation about public health. But it's still a surprise when alleged science journalists do it.

We are living in a very scary time.