Scientists are trained to be scrupulously apolitical. To reveal a political leaning is to raise the possibility of bias, the poisoned fruit of science. So,..
COVID-19 continues to surprise and confound, but, over the course of the pandemic, epidemiologists have come to a consensus on several facts about the spread..
We are all waiting for the vaccine. It might take a year. It might take two. But it might be wise to prepare for the..
Prior to March 21, most Americans had not heard of and probably could not even pronounce hydroxychloroquine, a drug normally used to treat malaria. Donald..
As WHO walks back the message that made it into the press yesterday concerning “asymptomatic disease” it is interesting to look at how that debacle..
As America takes to the streets to express its anger and frustration over the deaths of its black citizens, COVID-19 continues to kill. Cruelly, the..
Nothing screams unavoidable proximity quite like public transportation at rush hour. With governments around the country easing up on stay-at-home orders, Americans seem to be..
American wars of the past ranged from the noble to the dubious, but the brave men and women we remember today were all motivated by..
As we head into Memorial Day Weekend on the heels of a Friday with 1,200 new deaths from COVID-19, we are mired in arguments about..
Sometime over the past couple of months, as reality turned into a crash course in infectious disease epidemiology, you probably ran into the concept of..