COVID-19

As I mentioned previously, I've been marooned in Poland for a few months due to the coronavirus pandemic. Poland, along with several other Eastern European countries, implemented a very severe lockdown.

The health system wants you back and rather than dwell on cash flow and other financial vagaries, the discussion is all about how the COVID-19 instituted delays, may further harm your general well-being

"Now is the winter of our discontent," begins Richard III, one of Shakespeare's most famous plays.

Our group recently studied the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on New York Area residency programs during the time period in which New York City became the epicenter of the pandemic.

In the pharmaceutical industry, there's a low-level Hatfield-McCoy thing between chemists and biologists that's been going on forever. Each group thinks that the other group is a bunch of morons.

Two independent groups have arrived at the conclusion that the COVID-19 lockdown is doing more harm than good. Specifically, the lockdown is taking more life than it's saving. How is it possible to make a determination like that?

The endless daily reports of possible vaccines and potential drugs to treat coronavirus all mention the need for clinical trials before the drug or a vaccine can be approved for use, but without making it clear what the trial involve.

A few years ago, I gave a talk at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland titled "Science Communication in an Age of Fake News." The focus of the talk was on revealing the high prevalence of junk science, particularly in the media, and ways in w

The mayor of Los Angeles has said that his city will "never be completely open until we have a cure" for the coronavirus.

The Imperial College Pandemic Model