Wednesday, July 22, 2020
In my last post three weeks ago I observed the trend that the number of new daily COVID-19 cases had been increasing for two months in LA County while deaths from COVID had been decreasing. That post generated many questions and responses. (Thanks!) Today I’d like to update us on the situation in LA and answer some of the questions you posed.
About two w...
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Summary, Speculation, Suggestion
Friday, July 3, 2020
I haven’t written for about two months. One reason is that I’ve been busy taking care of my patients. Only three of my patients have contracted COVID, as far as I know. All have recovered. Many others may have had asymptomatic infections. But almost all of my patients have had important COVID-related questions and concerns. Another reason for the blogging pause is that for the last two months I haven’t known what to write, because I didn’t understand what was happenin...
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Think Local, Act Local
Monday, April 27, 2020
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"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." -- Edmund Burke
If you’re reading this, I assume you’ve already been recruited into one of the several armed motorcycle gangs that scours the city’s ruins for canned food. I know finding a generator to recharge your laptop isn’t easy so I’ll keep this short. Oh, wait. That’s the first paragraph of the post I’m writing for June. Where’s my end of April post? Oh, here. Let’s start over. ...Testing, Testing Part 2
Can you feel it, now that spring has come? That it's time to live in the scattered sun.
Waiting for the sun. Waiting for the sun. Waiting for the sun. Waiting for the sun.
This is the strangest life I've ever known. -- Waiting for the Sun, The Doors
[I’m writing this on Friday, April 17. Everything in this post might be false in a few days, and conditions might be different in places oth...Of Masks and Meaningful Measures
[I’m writing this on Sunday, April 5. Everything in this post might be false in a few days, and conditions might be different in places other than Los Angeles. Keep up to date by checking your local health department website.]
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“All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it’s up to us, so far as possible, not to j...
Updates From the Socially Distant
[I’m writing this on Monday, March 30. Everything in this post might be false in a few days, and conditions might be different in places other than Los Angeles. Keep up to date by checking your local health department website.]
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“Don’t stand so close to me.” -- The Police
As more and more patients are diagnosed with COVID-19 there’s a lot of discussi...Testing, Testing
[I’m writing this on Thursday, March 26. Everything in this post might be false in a few days, and conditions might be different in places other than Los Angeles. Keep up to date by checking your local health department website.]
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“Time I had some time alone” -- It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) by REM
The kerfuffle about coro...Novel Coronavirus FAQ Part 2 – Pandemic Hullabaloo
[Author’s note: This post was written on the afternoon of Friday, March 20, 2020. The subject matter is rapidly changing, and the recommendations below may be out of date in a few days. Find the latest recommendations from the LA County Dept of Public Health and the Centers for Di...
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Coronavirus Frequently Asked Questions
[Author’s note: This post was written on the afternoon of Friday, March 13, 2020. The subject matter is rapidly changing, and the recommendations below may be out of date in a few days. Find the latest recommendations from the LA County Dept of Public Health and the Centers for Di...
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Community Transmission of Novel Coronavirus in LA County
[Author’s note: This post was written on the afternoon of Wednesday, March 11, 2020. The subject matter is rapidly changing, and the recommendations below may be out of date in a few days. Find the latest recommendations from the LA County Dept of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control through the links below.]
I wrote about the novel coronavirus out...
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