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   *** Absolute Risk and Absolute Risk Reduction in the COVID-19 Pandemic***   -  presentation for 10th Annual  *Ed Waits Respiratory Care Conference*  -  updated 6/25/22 ***         -    full image slideshow
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    ***Cardiology in the Time of COVID***    -  presentation for 9th Annual  *Ed Waits Respiratory Care Conference*   -  7/14/21     -  full image slideshow
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  source:   NYT   -  2/22/2023
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   source           All  rates are relative to the 18- to 29-year-old age category . This group was selected as the reference group because it has accounted for the  largest cumulative number of COVID-19 cases  compared to other age groups.         S
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   full article     -   Forbes   -  9/5/2021      excerpts:          On social media, people have been using the word “chills” to describe images of crowds packed into college football stadiums on Saturday. For example, the following tweet from the A
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   full article       excerpts:          Each coronavirus contains nearly 30,000 letters of RNA. This genetic information allows the virus to infect cells and hijack them to make new viruses.           As an infected cell builds new coronaviruses, it
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   full article, audio interview and transcript     -  NPR  -  5/20/21
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  Coronaviruses         “Coronaviruses are single-stranded plus RNA viruses that, like poliovirus, replicate in the cytoplasm, but they differ from poliovirus in  their larger size and details of replication.  Coronaviruses cause respiratory infectio
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   The Single Most Important Lesson From the 1918 Influenza     -   NYT  -  3/17/20  -  by John Barry,  Tulane University School of Public Health
   book order info     author’s website:      johnmbarry.com            “    …  The story of the 1918 influenza virus is not simply one of havoc, death, and desolation, of a society fighting a war against nature superimposed on a war against another
   full article  -   University of Rochester NewsCenter      -  10/6/20
   Interactive graph to demonstrate effects of several variables that influence COVID-19 spread     …   from  Annals of Internal Medicine   -  4/21/20
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    The Plague        -  Albert Camus  -  full text
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   book order info     author’s website:     lauriegarrett.com            “  The Coming Plague*  tells the stories of men and women who struggled to understand and control the microbial threats of the post-World War II era. As these disease vanquishe
 From  The Coming Plague :           “ With bacteria the process of identification was far easier because the organisms were orders of magnitude larger than viruses: whereas a virus might be about one ten-millionth of an inch in size, a bacterium wou
  Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent.  This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn.  We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous  -  indifferent  to all suffering, la
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   A Viral Witch Hunt  -  Misguided fears of bats as disease carriers threaten a valuable and important species     -   Issues in Science and Technology   -  3/27/20
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   How does coronavirus kill?     -   Science AAAS   -  4/17/20
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    PANDEMIC I        - the first modern pandemic  -   by Bill Gates  -  4/23/20   excerpt:        Exponential growth is not intuitive. If you say that 2 percent of the population is infected and this will double every  eight days, most people won’t
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   Epidemiology, clinical course, and outcomes of critically ill adults with COVID-19 in New York City     -   The Lancet   -  5/19/20
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   A Visual Guide to the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus     -   Scientific American   -  July 2020
   Memorial Day 2020     -   100,000 and counting …
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   full story     -   The Washington Post   -  6/11/21
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   full article    excerpt:       The U.S. has crossed yet another tragic landmark in the battle against COVID-19. On Friday, the country surpassed  900,000 deaths  from the disease, two years after the first COVID-19 cluster was reported in Wuhan, C
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   full text of article     -   The Washington Post   -  11/9/20
   full article     -   NYT   -  4/28/21
   source     -   NPR   -  11/16/20
   Reasoning to receive vaccination against COVID      -   brief video
       mRNA vaccines represent a promising alternative to conventional vaccine approaches because of their high potency, capacity for rapid development and potential for low-cost manufacture and safe administration.          However, their applicatio
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   What you need to know about the Moderna and Pfizer coronavirus vaccines     -   The Washington Post   -  11/17/20
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    Here's how J&J coronavirus vaccine is different from the others     -  CNN  -  2/28/21
   full article     -   MIT Technology Review   -  2/5/21    excerpt:         Beyond potentially ending the pandemic, the vaccine breakthrough is showing how messenger RNA may offer a new approach to building drugs         In the near future, researc
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   book info       excerpt:         The three authors who have been part of this endeavor since it was first published in 1995, and the two who joined along the way, feel that with each new edition we get closer to our idealized vision of what this b
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   COVID-19 Projections for the United States of America      -  IHME  -  University of Washington
    Strange Days      -  The Doors  -   music video -  1967
   covidactnow.org
    Oh Well      -  Fleetwood Mac video  -  1969  …  contemplating the societal response to the pandemic
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