There was some encouraging news regarding the development of a vaccine for Covid-19 from the New England Journal of Medicine. It is mentioned by it’s other name, SARS-CoV-2. I am including a summary from Journal Watch followed by a link…
Baking. That is a Covid skill that many have been perfecting while they have been spending more time at home. Here is Dr. Jennifer Wallace’s No Knead Bread from a recipe in the New York Times: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/11376-no-knead-bread Next is Carolyn Thornton’s…
Ennio Morricone died this week. What does that have to do with Nexium and other proton pump inhibitors? Stay with me. Ennio Morricone was a composer probably best known for his haunting score of The Mission. Here is a synopsis of his…
Want to know your blood type? Curious if you have antibodies against Covid-19 (even though we aren’t sure what those results might mean)? Donate blood. The hospitals are full up and need blood for critically ill patients that require transfusion. …
Whenever I have occasion to pass a flower arrangement, it’s my habit to smell the flowers. Unfortunately, roses are grown now for show and not for fragrance. I can’t always smell them and since Covid-19 has become a presence in…
When I was a kid, I would walk down the street to my grandmothers house to visit. She subscribed to Reader’s Digest and I would flip through them at articles like ” I am Joe’s Kidney”. But my favorite section…
Here are three new things on Covid-19. Congratulations to Jim Berg! Jim was found to have positive antibodies to Covid -19 several months after getting sick while skiing in Colorado in early March. Jim has been donating plasma which is…
Here is an article from the NY Times that shows how a bar is the perfect environment for the spread of Covid-19. A Virus Walks Into a Bar … As communities open up, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the indoor…
Hot on the heels of “What blood type am I?”, “Should I be tested?”, we have “Do I need an MMR?”. That stands for Measles, Mumps and Rubella, a live viral vaccine given during childhood. This is the latest darling…
This summer marks the 45th anniversary of the movie Jaws. What does that have to do with Covid-19? A month ago I told patients that if they avoided jails, meat packing plants and nursing homes that they stood a pretty…
