Category Archives: Health

If you want to read an in detail about masks, gloves, viral risk, etc.– click here: https://www.linkedin.com/content-guest/article/saving-your-health-one-mask-time-peter-tippett-md-phd

Worth watching. It makes you proud of our city, health teams, mayor and governor.

If you get a chance, please watch the encouraging video.

Ed note: We will not be back to what we considered normal until we have an effective vaccine. That is more than a year a way. This NEJM article below rolls out a plausible way to use a combination of … Continue reading →

The best national site to follow the statistics for the COVID-19 epidemic is https://covid19.healthdata.org/ . The national cumulative data and each states data and projections are available. Nationally the peak may not be until April 15th, but Washington appears to … Continue reading →

The President says he won’t bother, but the CDC now recommends use of a face mask. Science is navigating a tortuous path and many perils as it attempts to reach the doors of the White House. Below is an article … Continue reading →

I’ve been asked a lot about what our options are if we get very sick with COVID-19 pneumonia. Below are my recorded thoughts as of April 1st. We are still early on and there is not extensive data yet. So … Continue reading →

Ed note: It’s a bit unusual for this blog to have a full article from a medical journal, but this one published today is of special interest. It raises several questions for the elderly concerning their outlook if they are … Continue reading →

Ed note: Smart people seem to disagree. I think using handwashing, keeping hands away from the face, washing fruits and vegetables, etc. is a common sense approach. Even if you’re following advice to stay home as much as you can, … Continue reading →

Thanks to Steve L. for forwarding this. It makes me wonder whether we should stop reusing the meal delivery bags which could be a source of spread.

Ed note: The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) launches with the goal of providing an impartial, evidence-based picture of global health trends to inform the work of policymakers, researchers, and funders. Main supporters are the Bill & Melinda … Continue reading →

The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to play out. From The Atlantic by Ed Young Three months ago, no one knew that SARS-CoV-2 existed. Now the virus … Continue reading →

Thanks to Mary Montgomery!

Ed note: This is an abstract from an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine. We are fortunate to have followed good precautions here at Skyline. BACKGROUND Long-term care facilities are high-risk settings for severe outcomes from outbreaks … Continue reading →

by Atul Gawande, MD in the New Yorker The message is getting out: #StayHome. In this early phase of the coronavirus pandemic, with undetected cases accelerating transmission even as testing ramps up, that is critical. But there are many people whom the … Continue reading →

Kinsa Health has sold or given away more than a million smart thermometers to households. Credit…Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Ed Note: Perhaps this technique could be used to daily track all residents and employees in CCRCs and other venues. … Continue reading →