Ah, Summertime! It’s a time of year that traditionally brings us cookouts, beach trips and pool parties. Americans travel to the...

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,...

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted” --Aldous Huxley, Brave New World. In mid-February, as...

Paul Garner knew he was sick. A professor of infectious disease at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the UK, Dr. Garner...

(Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Triumph of Death (detail), c. 1562, Museo del Prado, Madrid) Plagues, pox and pestilence: How pandemics have...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The whole thing seems like science fiction. I’m a big fan of science fiction: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, all classic...