I don’t usually put an exclamation mark in a blog headline, but the David Pogue segment this morning on CBS Sunday Morning is SO GOOD that I gotta! Click the picture:
Terrific TV tutorial on living, working at home AND staying social!
COVID-19 learning online: 1) What *is* a ventilator?? 2) Eric Topol on treatments, comorbidities, what next?
One thing that will be recorded in the history of the unfolding coronavirus story is how people are using social media – for better or worse – to answer questions that never seemed important. Warning: the internet has scammers and idiots. Think carefully. Do not listen to people if you don’t know where they get their information.
Here are two examples, from good sources.
[Read more…]What to do if you’re sick
Summary: This post contains advice from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention), the most credible source I know, for people who can’t yet get the care we’d normally get from our healthcare system. Most predictions say there will be a lot of us in that situation soon if the system gets overwhelmed, and it’s always best to become informed before a crisis hits and you’re stressed.
A friend in the industry wrote this morning:
[Read more…]“I just talked to my daughter and she has fever and coughing and is very weak and nauseated and she can’t find anybody to test her. The labs said she has to have an order first. Her boyfriend works at [a chain store] and they had him working until recently. He came down with the symptoms first. I told her to call around to doctors until she can find one that’ll write an order for her.”
March 27 COVID-19 update: the trends don’t look good
I get sick to my stomach every time I watch the daily 5 pm presentations from Washington, because as learned as these people may be, nothing they predict is showing up later in reality.
[Read more…]My new Swiss cousin. Pancreatic cancer (back when), and *mega* attitude.
Taking a break from virus news … OMG, yesterday long-time friend Silja Chouquet in Basel shared this TEDx Talk with me: Martin Inderbitzin. 19 minutes.
I’m declaring him my newfound Swiss cousin. Now I have to go find him. (I already went to the website he started … I’ll leave that to you, if you want.) … ah, @MarBitz on Twitter. And he started My Survival Story.
March 25 COVID-19 update: deaths, US case count, don’t listen to “Covidiots”
New viruses can be controlled, with fast strong actions. The two previous coronavirus threats were SARS in 2003 and MERS in 2012. They deservedly got a huge amount of attention but we (humanity) stopped them; SARS killed only 1000 in the whole world and MERS killed 862.
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