Unless you have been hiking solo across Antarctica, you are aware that the rest of the world is caught in the grip of a worldwide Covid-19 pandemic. As of June 25, 2020, 9.4 million people across the world have been confirmed to have the disease. As of June 24, 2020, 477,271 of those people have died from the disease. Both numbers are still rising unabated. Continue reading
Back in 2005, Irena M. Conboy and colleagues published a paper in Nature detailing a heterochronic parabiosis experiment, that investigated aging in mice. They were investigating whether the blood coursing through the arteries and veins of old animals differed from the blood that kept young animals alive. To perform the experiment, they surgically connected the circulatory system of an old mouse to that of a young one. This caused the blood sustaining the old mouse to be 50% old and 50% young. Continue reading
In a recent issue of the scientific journal Aging, a paper from David Sinclair’s lab noted that among the risk factors associated with bad outcomes of a COVID-19 infection, far and away, the most important risk factor is a person’s age. The statistics are astounding.
Yesterday, as I do every day, I collected our mail from our mailbox at the end of our driveway. I didn’t look at it. I just carried it into the house so my wife could wipe it off with a sanitizing wipe. Thanks, COVID-19 for providing some unneeded hassle! Anyway, my wife, Joyce, read the envelopes and discovered that some were addressed to people she didn’t know. Continue reading
Norway, Finland, and Denmark all instituted lockdown policies.
Sweden did not. It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words.
I’ll just show one picture and leave it at that. Continue reading