Charles Horton, M.D., consults regularly for the Christian news magazine World. In the July 10 issue, he responded to someone who had challenged him to provide ten reasons to take the Coronavirus seriously. Here they are in brief. You can read his fuller discussion in the original article. 1. Case counts can rise quickly where they were previously low or had declined. 2. Supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) remains inadequate. 3. Use of PPE where available is often … [Read more...]
Coronavirus and the Cornwall Alliance
Coronavirus. If you’d predicted six months ago that I’d be spending vast amounts of my time on this subject, I’d have said you were crazy. But you’d have been right. For me, that word has, in under three months, gone from never-before-encountered to encountered dozens to hundreds of times a day. Doctors and nurses, of course, all knew the term—for a family of viruses that cause common colds and seasonal influenzas. But most of us just knew of “cold germs” or “flu bugs.” Now suddenly … [Read more...]
