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7-day average COVID-19 cases and deaths calculated on Sundays
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

"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. ...
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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...
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Testing, Testing

Calvin Fuchs
[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.]

“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...
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