Monthly Archives: March 2020

COVID-19 in Suffolk County

Patch.com just published the latest local figures for Suffolk County as of yesterday and they were obtained from the official  county site here: conf. cases deaths population 2017 cases per 1000 people * Islip: 395 333700 1.183697932 Huntington: 358 203276 … Continue reading

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Immune Response in COVID-19 Leading to Disease Resolution

This is a fascinating little paper in the medical journal Nature Medicine.  It is written by an Australian group arguably the top leaders in the field of antiviral immune responses. It describes a 47-year-old woman from Wuhan, Hubei province, China. … Continue reading

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Magic Wand Needed!

If it were possible to wave a magic wand and make all Americans freeze in place for 14 days while sitting six feet apart, epidemiologists say, the whole epidemic would sputter to a halt! Here is another coronavirus curve (from … Continue reading

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Dire Report from Epicenter Bergamo

Click and watch this disturbing video from a Bergamo hospital A new report published by the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM; arguably the top medical journal in the world) makes the point that hospitals are major sites of corona-virus … Continue reading

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South Korea: Aggressive COVID-19 Strategies

  S. Korea is one of the few countries that have “flattened the curve”.  How did they do it?   South Korea learned its successful Covid-19 strategy from a previous coronavirus outbreak: MERS By HyunJung Kim, March 20, 2020 This … Continue reading

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Doctors Feeling Outrage

Coronavirus tragedy: Chinese doctor who postponed wedding to treat patients dies of infection.  Feb 21,2020.   From Norbert Goldfield (Ask Nurses and Doctors LLC, AND) Three updates from AND From Andrew Goldstein. If you read anything today – read this. … Continue reading

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Trump Shirks Responsibility

Letter to the Editor, The East Hampton Star, March 19 edition An Inspiration East Hampton March 16, 2020 To the Editor: When asked at a press conference last Friday if he takes responsibility for the lack of coronavirus test kits, … Continue reading

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The Terminology of Keeping Distance

The concepts of social distancing, quarantine and isolation are being interpreted in a variety of ways, not always correctly. Here’s a guide to help you make the right decisions. It comes mostly from a NYT article on ‘social distancing’ by … Continue reading

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The Economic Impact of the Virus

In the East Hampton Star: GUESTWORDS By John Tepper Marlin March 19, 2020   A monument near the office where I worked in Washington, D.C., until Sunday bears this quote by the Argentinean Jose Narosky: “In war there are no … Continue reading

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COVID-19: What is the Best Mitigation Strategy?

Interesting and thorough paper on COVID-19 disease modeling in the UK and the USA with an emphasis on analysis of each mitigation strategy (quarantine, closing schools, etc) or combination of strategies.  It is a 20-page paper.  So I am reprinting … Continue reading

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