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#318 – WHAT THEY DON’T TELL YOU ABOUT COVID VACCINATIONS – ALLEN TAYLOR

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Four weeks ago, I told you about my experience getting a Covid-19 vaccination. I had an adventure booking an appointment, and at getting to the Walgreen’s store where the injections were being given, but the injection itself was no big deal. There was a little soreness the next day at the spot where the jab was administered, but that was it. No other post-injection side effects. A couple of days ago, I received my second shot, and this time the experience has been different. Continue reading →

#318 – IF I STAY AWAY FROM SICK PEOPLE, I’M SAFE FROM COVID. RIGHT? ALLEN TAYLOR

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Yes and no. It’s complicated.

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, we didn’t know what we were up against. We suspected that touching a surface that had been touched by an infected person might transmit the disease to us. We thought that Covid-19 was like the flu. Things have turned out differently.

  • Touching surfaces that an infected person has touched has not turned out to be a major mode of transmission.
  • Covid-19 is like the flu in that both diseases are caused by viruses, but the similarity ends there.

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#316 – THE BIG A – ALLEN TAYLOR

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Thirty years ago, cancer and heart disease were the diseases of aging that Americans dreaded the most. People called cancer “The Big C.” In the United States in 1990, the death rate from cancer was 216 per 100,000 population. From that date on, there has been a steady and monotonic decline down to 157.5 per 100,000 population in 2017. There are multiple reasons for this. Many people who took up cigarette smoking in their youth, were dying of lung cancer in 1990. Continue reading →

#315 – MY ADVENTURE GETTING A COVID VACCINATION – ALLEN TAYLOR

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World health authorities are heavily emphasizing the need for practically everybody in the world to get a Covid-19 vaccination. Multiple vendors, such as Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson are working around the clock to produce as much vaccine as they can, and to ship it to vaccination sites around the world. You would think that, with the full weight of authority of national governments around the world, and the technical expertise of the pharmaceutical giants that are doing the production, that getting a vaccination when it is your turn to get one, would be a smooth process. Continue reading →

#314 – I JUST SURVIVED THE BIGGEST ICE STORM IN A CENTURY – ALLEN TAYLOR

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There is more to health than just being free of disease. Sometimes challenges arise unexpectedly, challenges that can have a major impact on heath. Over the past week, much of the United States has had to contend with extreme weather. In some places, such as where I live in Oregon, that extreme weather took down huge chunks of the electric grid. Bitter cold, hazardous driving, and even uprooted trees and falling tree branches have represented threats to life and health. Continue reading →