Posted on Feb 12, 2021 | Comments Off on The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic Had Up To Four Waves – The Last Was 18 Months Nearly 2 Years Later
Do you think food is medicine? While Whole Foods imagery touted that in 2019, the coronavirus pandemic that began in Wuhan later that year punctured efforts to convince the public that health is a moral or economic issue - you owe it to your kids to buy overpriced food. SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 pandemic showed that eating expensive onions won't save anyone from anything. What may help...
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Posted on Oct 8, 2020 | Comments Off on Mask Significantly Reduce Spread Of COVID-19 – Are Laws Needed?
A study using Ontario's 34 Public Health Units over the course of two months found that wearing a mask can have a significant impact on the spread of COVID-19. No argument there, anyone would be worried if their surgeon showed up in the operating room without a mask on, but the economists go a little further and claim mask mandates are the reason. They statistically associate mandates with a...
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Posted on Aug 26, 2020 | Comments Off on How Effective Will A COVID-19 Vaccine Need To Be To Stop The Pandemic? There’s Bad News
Researchers are on the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine to eliminate the need for mask wearing and current limits on interpersonal gatherings (except protests), but a new model says it still may not help the world exit a lingering economic depression.read...
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Posted on Aug 26, 2020 | Comments Off on How Effective Will A COVID-19 Vaccine Need To Be To Stop The Pandemic? There’s Bad News
Researchers are on the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine to eliminate the need for mask wearing and current limits on interpersonal gatherings (except protests), but a new model says it still may not help the world exit a lingering economic depression.read...
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Posted on Jul 10, 2020 | Comments Off on American Academy Of Pediatrics: Children Don’t Transmit COVID-19, Schools Should Reopen This Year
The American Academy of Pediatrics is a rather reflexive group much of the time, so it seems bold for Pediatrics, the in-house journal for an organization that tried to argue kids should not be allowed to even walk to school until they are age 10, to take the position that children infrequently transmit COVID-19 to each other or to adults and that most schools can and should reopen in August.read...
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Posted on Jun 16, 2020 | Comments Off on Mosquito Diseases Kill Tens Of Millions Per Year Worldwide But American Parents Worry More About Ticks
A few species of mosquitoes are nothing but carriers of disease, so pesticides were used to wipe them out in much of North America. Worldwide they remain a public health problem and while some ecologists claim a mythical (and scientifically debunked) 'balance of nature' and therefore insist Aedes aegypti might have some benefit, if we turned them extinct we'd have nothing but less yellow...
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