The Past, Present & Future of Coronavirus… COVID-19 forecasts try to predict the future. Accurate predictions would help hospitals and emergency rooms plan staffing and order supplies. Even better would be a model that could guide public policy, telling officials … Continue reading
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Expert Guidance Plus Practical Tips… COVID-19 mask use poses a great dilemma. Someday, historians will look back on these days and try to explain them. They will ask, how did the COVID-19 mask, a simple accessory that saves lives, become … Continue reading
COVID-19 youth immunity: Do children & young adults have a special advantage? Are schools & colleges SAFE? Here are answers. #COVID19youth
Continue readingA Faster Path to Normal Life? 2/18/2021 – For an update on COVID-19 Herd Immunity, see also this later blog: https://artchester.net/2021/02/covid-19-herd-immunity-delays/ COVID-19 Herd Immunity, in which so many people have antibodies that the virus can no longer spread, is where … Continue reading
What is the Truth of Coronavirus? COVID-19: Fake or Real? I surprise myself by posing this question. But I saw a TV interview that left me in shock. In the interview, a reporter asks a woman a question about the … Continue reading
Make your job as healthy as your home… Welcome to a blog about COVID-19 workplace safety. Why should you read this? I’m not a physician, but I am a scientist. I read the news and I read the research reports … Continue reading
Azithromycin (Zithromax®) Being Tested Against Coronavirus… COVID-19 Z-Pak may be in your future! It hasn’t yet been proven – but if it turns out to be important, you might have heard it here first. The Desperate Scramble to Fight Coronavirus … Continue reading
Indoor Air is Dangerous! COVID-19 aerosols have been largely ignored in public health guidelines. This blog gives you an early alert to a rapidly-developing story: the great risk of indoor airborne infection, due to COVID-19 aerosols. Here are the major … Continue reading
Go Out, Visit Friends and Have Fun! COVID-19 Socialization is the natural outcome of the previous two blogs, which treated coronavirus spreading and how to safely shop for groceries. We’ll extend what we have learned by treating many more activities … Continue reading
How To Stock Your Pantry With Reduced Risk… COVID-19 Groceries describes how to safely carry out an essential activity: acquiring groceries. It builds on the previous blog, which discussed how COVID-19 spreads. The next blog will address a full range … Continue reading
Control Risk By Understanding… COVID-19 safety is a serious concern for the immediate future. However, all around us, states and businesses are beginning to open their doors. How do we escape our prisons without taking premature risk? This three-part blog … Continue reading
Answers To Key Questions About Coronavirus Risk… The COVID-19 coronavirus forecast is a must-read resource from IHME, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. I have been – dare I say? – analyzing their analysis, … Continue reading
Recovering from a Hip Fracture… The focus of this blog is Physical Therapy. It’s the fifth part of a multi-blog article: Hip Fracture for Art: The Fall in Paradise Hip Fracture 2: An Inside View of Skilled Nursing And Hip … Continue reading
The Second Part of Repairing Art’s Hip Fracture… The focus of this blog is Hip Replacement. It’s the fourth part of a multi-blog article: Hip Fracture for Art: The Fall in Paradise Hip Fracture 2: An Inside View of Skilled … Continue reading
Self-driving fatalities are a warning sign of problems with autonomous vehicles. The fatalities are the saddest, most tragic evidence. However, there are many non-fatal accidents that could have turned fatal as well. We have previously discussed barriers to autonomous vehicle … Continue reading
Good News for Cancer Prevention! Garlic and its cousins occupy a unique position, straddling the worlds of superstition, medicine and the culinary arts. In modern cookery, the most familiar Alliums, that is, the garlic family, are onions, garlic, scallions, shallots, … Continue reading
Beware of Under- and Over-Diagnosis! The Value of Early Dementia Testing Early dementia tests can reveal whether a loved one suffers from Alzheimer Disease or another progressive form of dementia. Some people might say: I really don’t want to … Continue reading
Mediating Assessments for Wise Choices There’s a new structured decision making tool, and it’s not only for business. It may strengthen us for some rare, difficult choices that we each have to make. Choices and decisions: the average U.S. adult … Continue reading
Science Thinks Out of the Box to Extend Lifespan… Long life is a perennial yet elusive goal. Ancient writings, including the Bible, abound with stories of people living far beyond today’s lifespans. Longevity was considered an award for virtue, or … Continue reading
Delivery Robots May Surprise You – A Guest Post by Thomas Glare Shape changing robots are emerging from the comic books and soon will enter our lives. Already, hotels are using robots for room service delivery and Amazon is using … Continue reading