COVID-19

The UK's National Health Service has ICNARC or the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre which is able to compile data on the utilization of intensive care and the demographics of the patients.

When the novel coronavirus, now known as SARS-CoV-2, emerged from China, conspiracy theorists -- including a promine

By Norman Fenton, Queen Mary University of London;

By Benjamin Neuman, Texas A&M University-Texarkana

By Dr. Matt Grawitch, Saint Louis University As we continue to wrestle with COVID-19, the world has become even more polarized than it was during the last election cycle.

When I saw that Dr.

Without a doubt, preparedness for future disasters is primary, but images of deserted streets and highways prompt another take.

Mark Twain famously said, "What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so."

Press briefings, by any measure, are long and loud. And now they may get longer and louder since there is another potential antiviral drug to yell about. 

COVID-19 continues to dominate my reading. While we cannot control the underlying sources and drivers of a pandemic, we can control our response. The literature, mainstream and professional, is beginning to reflect on our response.