October 6, 2020 Health Policy Would you allow anyone who is being treated for COVID-19 and remains infectious to come to your workplace or home? In addition, when they do show up, they take off their mask. I leave it to you to come to your own conclusions.
September 21, 2020 Epidemiology CDC updates guidance acknowledging what most everyone else accepted months ago that coronavirus spreads through airborne respiratory droplets and aerosols.
September 18, 2020 Allergy/Immunology Overlap between allergy and cold/ COVID -19 symptoms can lead to inaccurate assumptions and unfortunate consequences. @billcarrolltalk and I talk about this issue in the context of Pembroke school staff with COVID-19 who thought they had allergies.
September 15, 2020 General information Can universal facial masking reduce Covid-19 disease severity through “variolation”? NEJM commentary proposes a hypothesis that suggests further investigation.
September 14, 2020 General information Excessive fatigue, respiratory and cardiovascular problems remaining months after COVID-19 infection reported in younger people.
September 8, 2020 Epidemiology Why proposing “herd immunity” as a strategy by using SARS-CoV-2 as your inoculating vector is not a good idea. Historically, there has never been a real case of herd immunity through infection.
August 26, 2020 General information SARS-CoV-2 reported to be transmitted through aerosols in addition to other modes.
August 20, 2020 Infectious Disease Computer model suggests urinal flushing may (or may not) release aerosols that can spread coronavirus. Real world testing as well as viral loads need to be evaluated before any conclusions can be drawn
August 13, 2020 Dermatology Hair loss after Covid-19 not specific to the disease but rather the severity of (any) infectious process and the body’s resource allocation response.
August 12, 2020 Allergy/Immunology Although it was a specific and isolated population, there are lessons to be learned that point to rejecting the hypothesis that “natural” herd immunity will get us out of the pandemic.
