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Dorothy “Dot” Lewis Caregiver Award – 2020

ANATOMY OF AN OUTBREAK – Part I: The Staff

By JOHN HOPKINS, DR.P.H. (All rights reserved. Names and identifying information have been changed for privacy's sake) Bob's Facebook page shows him and his family in Florida in mid March 2020. Older parents, his wife and college age sons...cheerful,…

ANATOMY OF AN OUTBREAK – Part II: The Residents

By JOHN HOPKINS, DR.P.H. (All rights reserved. Names and identifying information have been changed for privacy's sake) Louise and Thelma each lived about 90 years before they met as roommates at Bellamy Fields. Among my theories about…

ANATOMY OF AN OUTBREAK – Part III: The Virus

By JOHN HOPKINS, DR.P.H. On the head of a pin sit either a million angels or a million particles of corona virus 19. The outbreak in China is well publicized but not well understood because of the obfuscation. Had American and other international…

ANATOMY OF AN OUTBREAK – Part IV

By JOHN HOPKINS, DR.P.H. "Caught in the Devil?s Bargain" Joni Mitchell, "Woodstock" PART IV A million virus particles on the head of a pin. Got it? It's not a hundred pins in your lungs; now it's a thousand... It's the 4th of July…

You’ve Got A Plastic Spoon…Part V

By JOHN HOPKINS, DR.P.H. ...AND THE ICE CREAM IS FROZEN... PART V The quarantine opposition is ready for a confrontation. Hoping to further obfuscate and downplay the initial failures of the viral immunization trials reported on Friday…

Sometimes as an Antidote to Fear of Death I Eat the Stars – Part VII

Rebecca Elson. Part VII When we wrestled as 8th graders on the verdant or muddy yard at the corner of North Washington and Green Ridge streets in Scranton in 1967, if Timmy or Danny got you in a headlock, you knew you were toast and you yelled…

Agent Orange meets the Novel Virus – Part X

Blowing in the Wind, Bob Dylan How many deaths will it take... They were boys in 1966, 20 +/- 2 years. Company A is now cohort A- they?re 75 years old, +/-2 they earned cohort status and medals for valor and bravery because American Air…

Johnny can’t smell – Part XI

The customer sipped his coffee as Johnny made change. He made a face and handed back the coffee complaining, this isn't what I ordered. Smell it! She remade the drink correctly and apologized saying, ?my bad. It's on me today. As he drove…

Prospective Contact Tracing

Benny took a break from insider trading in soon-to-fail biotech companies, particularly those with dementia and viral breakthroughs, to pivot. Among a number of ?to do?s? on his list was a notion about contact tracing and high tech. NASCAR…