I’ve seen a number of news items this week which form part of a common theme, which I’ll call “The Stitch in Time” theme. You know the proverb “A stitch in time saves nine”.  It applies for medical problems the same as for many

  Later today, the world Covid case count will break through 100 million – a milestone of sorts, and not of a good kind. Sometimes I get notes from readers with questions I’m sure many others are wondering, too.  I got such a note yesterday

  Happy “first birthday” – to the coronavirus.  It is one year since the first coronavirus case in the US, in Washington State – a man rumored to be a Boeing employee and recently returned from China.  A year later, and we are counting 25.2

  The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic put a halt to most of our international travel plans in 2020.  For many of us, it is decades since we last experienced such a lengthy period of “grounding”, and for most of us, we’re increasingly keen to start traveling

  I wrote on Thursday about the constant and consistent thread of official incompetence running through every element of our public health officials and their mishandling of our virus crisis.  I lightly touched on the strange contradiction between the leisurely pace at which the vaccine

  The outgoing Trump administration agreed with the incoming Biden administration.  That’s a sentence you probably never expected to see, and might never see again.  Sadly, the agreement was on a matter that they’re both totally wrong about.  How is it that politicians only agree

A quick reminder.  My Covid book goes up in price from its current “opening special” price of $4.95 to $8.95 on Monday, probably late in the day (I’m not sure how quickly Amazon adjusts prices).  While I’d be happy for you to buy it at

Why do I write these diary entries, twice a week, every week?  Sometimes I ask myself this question, because for sure, it takes up a lot of time, and I’ve received some very negative comments, usually of the form “You’re not a doctor, shut up”. 

Welcome to 2021.  For us all, I am certain it is a year of hope, a year in which we desperately want to be free of the virus and to have life return back to normal.  The promise of vaccines seems to all but guarantee