by Michael D. Cohen MD
The World Health Organization has designated monkeypox a global health emergency because it has suddenly and unexpectedly spread around the world via new modes of transmission that are not understood. It is an emergency because it is still spreading. But the numbers of people infected ...
by Michael D. Cohen MD
The U.S. is experiencing the worst increase in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths since last winter. As I write in mid-August there are more than 150,000 new cases per day and over 1,000 daily deaths nationally. Over 95% of hospitalizations and deaths are among people ...
by Michael D. Cohen MD
Worldwide Pandemic
As I write this in mid-July the pandemic has again changed direction and cases are rising throughout the world. Deadly surges are beginning or continuing in Africa, Latin America and South Asia. Indonesia is having their worst pandemic yet. New estimates suggest that ...
by Michael D. Cohen MD
The United States continues to re-open as daily new cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to decline. However, the national numbers obscure the fact that these reduced outcomes are uneven across the states. In states and counties where less than 50% of the people have volunteered ...
by Michael D. Cohen MD
Course of the Pandemic
Some of the worst surges of the pandemic are occurring in Brazil, India, and Uruguay. The surges seem to be driven in part by bad policies, like relaxing restrictions too soon. The surges also appear to be driven by variants of ...
by Michael D. Cohen MD
Course of the Pandemic
The United States has lately stabilized at around 60,000 new infections per day. This is not good, as daily infections need to go down much further before control of the pandemic can be achieved. At least deaths and hospitalizations have continued ...
by Michael D. Cohen, M.D.
Course of the Pandemic
Declining numbers of infections, hospitalizations and deaths: After the peak in mid-January at about 220,00 cases per day, infections have been declining in the United States. In mid-March, infections appeared to be stabilizing at about 60,000 per day, a level similar ...
by Michael D. Cohen, M.D.
New variants of the coronavirus
February saw numerous reports about mutations and new variants of the pandemic coronavirus. A variant called B.1.1.7 was first identified in England (UK) last fall. B.1.1.7 spreads among people more easily (is more infectious) and may also cause serious illness ...
by Michael D. Cohen, M.D.
Widespread community transmission of COVID-19 disease continues in the U.S. New records have been set daily for numbers hospitalized, numbers in ICU and deaths. Total U.S. deaths were over 400,000 as of January 18, 2021.
All preventive measures undertaken by individuals to protect themselves and ...
by Michael D. Cohen, M.D.
The pandemic was more widespread than ever in the United States, as PLN was going to press. Almost every day records were being set for the daily number of new cases (240,000), hospitalizations (over 100,000), and deaths (nearing 4,000). News articles say the two deadliest ...
