by Richard A. Hendricks | Aug 23, 2021 | Health News
But things are also worse, mainly because the very contagious and possibly more dangerous Delta variant currently makes up about 99% of the coronavirus in circulation in the United States. The Delta variant has caused an uptick in infections, hospitalizations and,...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jul 28, 2021 | Health News
Very early on, it became apparent that the older you were, the worse you would likely fare against the coronavirus, a fact that has held true throughout the pandemic. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly 95% of all Covid deaths in...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jul 26, 2021 | Health News
But after postponing the games for a year, the Japanese government and the International Olympics Committee decided the show — the games — must go on. And so they are — but they’re very different: strange and eerily quiet. When I attended one...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jul 17, 2021 | Health News
It has been neck and neck for a while, and honestly, I was ready to cheer a vaccine victory. We nearly dropped to an average of fewer than 10,000 new cases a day, an important number because, according to President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jul 7, 2021 | Health News
I was there when the country first developed mild symptoms, and then tested positive for a new mysterious disease. I worried as the disease spread and I watched as the patient progressively worsened, needed ICU care and at times became unstable. Even as the country...