Last week someone mentioned a friend who had died last year. I couldn't remember the date, so I had to look up the fact that he had died on April; 15. Later I started thinking about what killed him, ad after thinking of the proximate cause, cancer. The one who mentioned him also mentioned that he was aware of a sore from a tumor several years ago. The had never had anything one about an obvious medical problem. Then I recalled that he used to complain about aging, because he was ...
They Cried Wolf If this upsets you, then I apologizes in advance. Epidemiologists don't have huge amount of work, when there is no epidemic going on, so they plan for the next major pandemic and reflect on the last major pandemic. The model for a bad pandemic is still the Spanish Flu of 1918 (actually 1917, 1918, and 1919), and the expectation is for a pandemic that will be even deadlier, and at least 50 million died in that pandemic. And the response to Covid-19 ...
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