The Patchwork Pandemic: How hotspots ignite, and how we can avoid becoming one
The drumbeat of data goes on, every day: Over 6 million cases worldwide, 1.8 million in the U.S. A global death toll of over 370,000,...
JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR
A Narrative on COVID 19 from the front lines
WHEN EVERYTHING GETS THROWN OUT THE WINDOW
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Living in a Post-COVID World
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted” --Aldous Huxley, Brave New World. In mid-February, as...
"Weird as Hell": The COVID-19 Manifestations Nobody Told You About.
Paul Garner knew he was sick. A professor of infectious disease at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the UK, Dr. Garner...
Plagues, Pox and Pestilence: How pandemics have impacted human history
(Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Triumph of Death (detail), c. 1562, Museo del Prado, Madrid) Plagues, pox and pestilence: How pandemics have...
Life After Lockdown: Seeking the Goldilocks Phenomenon
On January 19, 2020, a previously healthy 35-year-old man presented to an urgent care clinic in Snohomish County, Washington with a 4-day...
A Few Reflections on Slowing Down: JOTPY, Week Six
My wife and I were riding bikes when we first saw the owls, high up in the crook of a massive live oak tree heavily draped with Spanish...
A Light at the End of the Tunnel: Potential treatments and vaccines
First of all, the numbers: Worldwide, as of this writing, the COVID 19 pandemic has infected over 2.2 million people, and there have been...
"April is the Cruellest Month." Or is it? Journal of the Plague Year: Week Four
It’s Holy Week—and it’s been quite a roller coaster ride already. The week began with Queen Elizabeth giving a televised speech to the...
Week 3: Resilience, Love and Faith
A Journal of the Plague Year: Week 3 So here’s the tally, as of this writing: Chatham County has 44 confirmed COVID 19 cases and 3...
The second week: Morbidity and Mortality Come Home to Roost
This is the week that everything really began to hit home. The United States is now the new epicenter of the COVID 19 pandemic. We...
A Journal of the Plague Year: A physician's first-hand account of the COVID-19 pandemic Week 1
The whole thing seems like science fiction. I’m a big fan of science fiction: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, all classic...