September 1, 2020
Joe Brady
In a season that seems so dark, and bad news hitting the headlines in wave after wave, you have to look hard to find reasons for hope. Yet there is always hope and humanity has survived many a crisis by looking for a light at the end of the tunnel and making a break for…
August 17, 2020
Joe Brady
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August 4, 2020
Joe Brady
While waiting for a vaccine or a cure, doctors around the world are effectively getting better at treating patients with COVID-19 and saving many lives. Doctors in hard-hit areas of Europe like Italy and the UK began in late February reaching out to Doctors in China for advice on treating patients with COVID. According to…
July 20, 2020
Joe Brady
Finally some legitimate cause for hope in the fight against COVID-19. A vaccine being developed at the University of Oxford has been shown to produce a strong immune response. According to Dr. Anthony Fauci “any way you slice it, this is good news”. In a clinical trial published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet,…
July 20, 2020
Joe Brady
We all feel like we need a meltdown right about now. Fortunately, this little girl expresses it perfectly. https://abc7news.com/little-girl-quarantine-meltdown-4-year-old-phoenix-had-pandemic-we-can-all-relate-to-everything-is-shutdown/6315284/
June 30, 2020
Joe Brady
Physical activity is known to have a profound impact on the normal functioning of the immune system. Currently, no scientific data exists regarding the effects of exercise on this coronavirus, there is evidence that exercise can protect you from many other viral infections. Having better cardiorespiratory fitness and performing regular moderate physical activity has been…
June 30, 2020
Joe Brady
For this demonstration, Dr. Davis held agar cultures near his face and sneezed, sang, talked, and coughed at them. For one set, he wore a standard surgical mask, and for the other, he wore no mask. Check out the video on the masking debate. We are officially living in a Parks and Rec episode.https://www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwander/microbiologist-mask-bacteria-demonstration
June 23, 2020
Joe Brady
Two hairstylists in Springfield, Missouri, tested positive for COVID-19 in late May. Together they had seen 140 customers since the salon reopened. They may have been contagious the whole time. But instead of detecting a cluster of new cases, local public-health had 46 salon customers tested for the virus, not one was positive. The reason…
May 10, 2020
Joe Brady
Once upon a time, a student asked his Tai Chi teacher “ master, what is the secret to living a long healthy life” the Tai Chi teacher thought about it for a while and then replied, “ just keep breathing”. One phenomenon puzzling doctors treating patients with COVID-19 is called “silent hypoxia”. Many patients appear…
April 29, 2020
Joe Brady
It looks like we are going to be living with coronavirus for a long time to come. We might as well get good at it. As many states including Colorado lurch toward reopening even before disease rates have come down, it is left to individual responsibility to prevent a resurgence of the virus. We will…