Returning to a topic I have covered in previous blog posts - the San Francisco COVID-19 response has generally been laudable. But a strange this is happening in the press such that it is now being…
Discussion of the San Francisco “miracle” in regard to #covid_19 containment may not be entirely accurate. Link: https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/07/01/coronavirus-ucsf-doctor-says-covid-19-california-miracle-is-over-now-we-are-just-like-other-states/ While I agree that @SF_DPH has had an extraordinary response to coronavirus (with 99 deaths to date), the city still…
A thoughtful article was published this week by Dr. Martha Lincoln, a medical and cultural anthropologist at San Francisco State University. She points out (with numerous examples) that countries viewing themselves as "exceptional" or "outliers" have…