Disease

Restorative vs. Maintenance Care

Like any screening test, the unreliability of  COVID-19 antibodies tests, as measured by the number of false positives increases as the incidence of the disease within the screening population decreases.

# Reprinted with permission. Dr. Singer's original article can be found here.

As of today, the American death toll from COVID-19 stands at more than 69,000, according to Johns Hopkins.

   

DAY 1 Was it just last winter when we left the New Year's Eve party in a snit because we couldn't dance to the music selected by the "younger group" living in our retirement community?

The study comes from Taiwan, the country with the ambiguous “ownership.” The study is small, only 100 patients, but think of it as the pilot, not the definitive report – there is always something to learn.

The latest news on coronavirus has been mixed.

For social and economic reasons, the lockdown simply cannot last much longer. As the country begins to reopen, there will be several major unanswered questions, perhaps the biggest of which is, "Will there be a second wave of COVID-19?"

Let’s begin with a few facts, extrapolating as necessary. According to the CDC’s statistics on deaths in the United States, seasonal flu is an equal opportunity killer.