For months now, all of us have been looking at life through the lens of COVID-19. Our world, says Shelby County Health Director Alisa Haushalter, is “COVID-tinted.”So, we speak a coronavirus language, describing this strange, semi-quarantined, existence as the “new normal.”
Early in the pandemic, two local nurse practitioners couldn’t believe how often they heard anxious talk about finding medical care, both from people with primary care doctors and people who’d been coasting along for years without.
It is increasingly clear that the United States will not follow the lead of other countries and bring the deadly COVID-19 pandemic under control. Any return to normalcy will therefore require a vaccine and development of herd immunity. Several vaccine candidates are showing early promise, prompting the big question — when will we have a… Read More
Alisa Haushalter, Shelby County Health Department director, said the goal is to have coronavirus tripwires ready by tomorrow afternoon. She said this will be a good way to let the public know that if we reach certain thresholds, actions will be taken.
Researchers have known for two decades or more that cholesterol plays a role in causing dementia by altering a protein in the walls of brain vessels that ultimately constricts blood flow.
General George Patton didn’t know a thing about COVID-19, but he knew all battle plans look good on paper. The test is meeting the enemy. One of the growing flanks is testing and the days it is now taking to get results.
Early in the pandemic, a chorus of researchers called for a national vaccination campaign for measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR as the shot is called in doctors’ offices.
Dr. Keiichi Sumida has watched patients in end-stage renal failure suffer a litany of health problems caused by inflammation, including heart attacks, strokes and early death.
