Covid-19 is not the only pandemic ravaging the world’s population right now. Diabetes is another one—one that we have been dealing with for a long time. There seems to be a connection between the two, and that connection may be deeper than is currently thought. Continue reading
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the conditions that humans fear the most. It is horrible enough, for a person to leave the land if the living in an automobile crash or with a sudden heart attack. AD is far worse. People gradually lose their memory, their ability to function, and their very identity, to the ravages of the disease. After decades of study, there is still no consensus on what causes AD, but recent findings are revealing that, unlike infectious diseases that are caused by a single pathogenic agent, there are multiple contributing factors. Continue reading
I have been following the situation with the COVID-19 pandemic since the start and I have developed some insights I think the Supply Chain community might find useful.
A little bit of background how I started accumulating all this information. From the last part of 2019 until mid-January, I had a project that involved a long commute and to pass the time I started listening news podcasts. Continue reading
The COVID-19 pandemic has ripped through country after country after first emerging in Wuhan, China in December 2019. It has exposed for all to see, how poorly prepared most countries have been at coping with a highly infectious disease, let alone stamping it out. One country, however, stands out as one that responded early and effectively to the threat. A paper that recently appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) describes the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Iceland, and how the medical establishment there dealt with the infection. Continue reading
On April 20, a group of ICU Healthcare workers in Phoenix counter-protested people demanding Arizona’s governor reopen the state. In the face of verbal assault and bluster from the protestors, the nurses wearing scrubs and respiratory masks stood silently with arms crossed, making a strong statement against prematurely exposing people to COVID-19. Since then the photo has gone viral. Continue reading