Keep Safe Space
Distance from people you are not normally around. I move over at public places when someone starts to break the 6-foot barrier and when I can’t, I firmly ask them to distance.
Mask-up when in public… READ MORE
Yearly Archives: 2020
Epidemic Prevention?
There currently is substantial contradictory info about the Coronavirus outbreak starting in China. Should we be worried and how best to prepare for the eventuality of an epidemic here? First, we have yearly outbreaks termed flu season which for the past decade has resulted in an average of 34,000 deaths a year in the US. WOW! This is an estimate by CDC because death certificates often are vague as to cause of death and the flu frequently results in pneumonia which may be listed and is not specific for flu.
Infectious disease experts opine that the coronavirus outbreak may…READ MORE
Suggestions about managing the cost of medicines
Pharmaceutical companies have been brilliant in the last century in giving doctors great tools to treat age-related diseases. The average lifespan in a century has gained 28 years (52 years to 78 years), primarily from advances in medications. The advances are not cheap; every decade the cost has doubled. $$$ Patent protection provides the economic impetus to invest huge amounts of money in research which fuels… READ MORE
