Today’s Blog post will be covering a fundamental mistake made in the visual representation of data - unfortunately made by my local Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District. In an attempt to provide more transparency about…
A disclaimer that today’s blog post will reference overused, but apt, adages as cases of COVID-19 in LA County have (finally) begun to decrease. Just as ‘what goes up, must come down’ is true in Physics,…
Before omicron, people in the UK with COVID symptoms or a positive test had to self-isolate for ten days. But when the new variant of concern arrived, the government changed the self-isolation period to seven days. On the…
Two interesting, and diametrically opposed articles, came up on my Doximity feed (Doximity is an application tool for health care professionals) today. The first from STAT News, entitled “Study Raises Doubts About Rapid Covid Tests’ Reliability…
Despite a Los Angeles Times headline blaring “Nearly 250,000 new coronavirus cases in 8 days: Where is LA County Omicron surge heading?”, I found a patient’s comment to be more compelling: “It seems like everybody has…
Well, it’s official. Case numbers in Los Angeles on December 31st 2021 rose to new heights, exceeding the maximum number we experienced in the devastating outbreak that began in late 2020 and extended into 2021. During…