As those of you who have visited our offices during the COVID-19 pandemic will know, we have relied on rapid antigen testing as both a screening and diagnostic tool since they became available. There are a…
Prevalence is one of the earliest concepts covered in an introductory Epidemiology course is that of prevalence. Defined, prevalence is “the proportion of persons in a population who have a particular disease or attribute at a…
This week, we have 3.7 times more cases than we did over the summer. Mortality rates reached a new high at 0.53 daily deaths per 100,000 population - the previous maximum was 0.44 in late July.…
Today social media and press reports will be flooded with pictures of healthcare workers receiving their #Covid_19 vaccine. While an accomplishment worth celebrating, the reality for the rest of us looks like this. Test, trace, isolate.
Not that long ago I read Hans Rosling’s book “Factfulness” which asks simple questions about global trends and compiles the generally wrong answers given by a wide variety of generally well informed groups. In the book,…
In a small glimmer of hope in what has been a rapidly deteriorating epidemic in the United States, the FDA yesterday voted 17-4 (with one abstention?) to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine through an Emergency Use…
On the eve of another mandatory stay at home order, with cases skyrocketing to new daily highs and ICUs reaching their breaking point here in Los Angeles County - an otherwise quiet Saturday seems to be…
I have a Peanuts coffee cup which quotes the ever morose Charlie Brown as saying "Just when you think things can't get worse, they get worse." Los Angeles County is experiencing an unprecedented, asymptotic rise in…