Public Health

It’s been less than 2 months since our previous post on Covid and yet, in that short time, several new recommendations have surfaced about vaccinations and isolation if you become infected. These are important new pronouncements, as Covid is not going anywhere, so the better we can address and respond…

As holiday gatherings and end-of-the-year soirees pick up steam, you’ll likely find yourself in crowded gatherings, sharing the space and air with groups of people, many of whom you may not know. Does this mean it’s inevitable that you’ll catch a cold, or something worse, like Flu, Covid, or RSV?…

This past April, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy created quite a stir when he declared that our country suffers from an epidemic of loneliness and isolation. He issued a 70+ page advisory report on the importance of social connection for the health and well-being of our country. Murthy, the author…

It may feel like the days of Covid are behind us, but if that’s your perspective (and a June Gallup Poll reported that 64% of Americans believe this), consider yourself misinformed. Because Covid is not only still here, but there appears to even be an increase in cases this summer…

Well, despite the lifting of vaccine mandates, mask requirements, and other Covid protections that have been used throughout the pandemic, we are not yet done with Covid-19.  Currently, over 450 people per day are still dying of Covid in the United States, and the overwhelming majority of Covid infections (89%)…

It feels like there’s a lot of chaos and confusion out there when it comes to understanding where things stand concerning Covid. In China and Hong Kong, for example, a new wave of the Omicron BA.2 variant is raging and in some areas, extreme measures are back in place to…