Category Archives: Health Care

Dire Report from Epicenter Bergamo

Posted on March 22, 2020 by David Posnett

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

Posted on March 22, 2020 by David Posnett

  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

Posted on March 21, 2020 by David Posnett

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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The Terminology of Keeping Distance

Posted on March 20, 2020 by David Posnett

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

Posted on March 19, 2020 by David Posnett

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?

Posted on March 18, 2020 by David Posnett

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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Logarithmic Progression of COVID-19 Creates a Problem

Posted on March 18, 2020 by David Posnett

This is a long post to basically say that we are going to run out of hospital beds, ICU beds and ventilators if we don’t enact very strict social distancing/isolation rules immediately.  It is based on the known exponential growth … Continue reading →

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The Cry for National Leadership

Posted on March 18, 2020 by David Posnett

By Perry Gershon Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2020 12:53 pm in the Long Island Advance Perry Gershon, Candidate for Congress NY-1   As President Trump flails in his attempts to lead our country through one of the most severe challenges … Continue reading →

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Velocity of COVID-19 spread

Posted on March 16, 2020 by David Posnett

This is a measure of how fast the COVID-19 virus is spreading in different countries: from the Financial Times by Steve Bernard, Cale Tilford and John Burn-Murdoch The steeper the slope, the faster the virus is spreading.  When the slope … Continue reading →

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State of Emergency: COVID-19

Posted on March 15, 2020 by David Posnett

Thank you East Hampton Star, for running the historical piece “Then and Now” on March 12th: “Dr. David Edwards, the town health officer in 1918, reported six cases of influenza in early October. A week later there were 35 cases, … Continue reading →

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