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Tag Archives: COVID-19
COVID Notes: More Covid Patients; Studies on Long Term Covid; A Million Deaths
I had several COVID positive patients this week, all vaccinated. All relatively speaking mild (i.e. no respiratory distress), including members of my family. COVID is constantly mutating. It would appear that one of the mutations is responsible for the … Continue reading
The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?
By Nicholas Wade | May 5, 2021 Reprinted with permission. First appeared in medium.com here and in the bulletin.org here. Check out the comments at both of these sites. Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, public health
Tagged China, corona, COVID-19, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, virus, Wuhan
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Trump’s Base: 2 Anecdotal Cases Regarding Sources of News
From Gigi Morris (Sag Harbor): This may offer some insight into what is happening in this country. About 3 weeks ago, I had a cleaning lady coming to my house in NH (she lives in VT) and I mentioned that … Continue reading
How Masks Matter
OK. Seriously, what is the latest on masks? Bottom line: if most people wear an effective mask we can significantly curb viral transmission It is increasingly clear that there are differences in mask quality and protection. Here is one example … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, Trump, Zeldin
Tagged airline, Coronavirus, COVID-19, masks, pandemic, travel
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Letter from Dr. Norbert regarding COVID-19
COVID-19’s Human Toll, New Knowledge, Challenges Ahead Several of my patients have died of COVID; others hospitalized butt survived. Many more were COVID positive and for reasons that we are only beginning to understand survived with few aftereffects. Food insecurity … Continue reading
Pandemic: How did Trump’s America Screw up?
The United States has just 4% of the world’s population but over 25% of its confirmed COVID‑19 cases and deaths. With arguably the most advanced healthcare research and top hospitals and doctors, it seems difficult to fathom. What the hell … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Fake News, GOP, Health Care, National Security, science, Travel Ban, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged COVID-19, pandemic
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Sowed Discord
SpringsAugust 24, 2020 Dear David: The past three and a half years have been a master class in the havoc that can be wrought when a president is constrained by neither truth nor decency. Starting with the size of his … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, democrats, economy, Ethics, Fair elections, GOP, Health Care, long island, Nancy Goroff, public health, Trump, Trump atrocities, voting by mail, Zeldin
Tagged COVID, COVID-19, healthcare
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COVID-19 – US is only industrialized country without a national policy
By: Norbert Goldfield MD – founder of ‘Ask Nurses and Doctors’ (AND) August 14. ‘Ask Nurses and Doctors’ (AND) notes Negative Covid Tests, Ongoing Anxiety, No Jobs, What Is to be Done? All my symptomatic patients for the … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged anxiety, COVID-19, fatigue, masks, national policy, pandemic
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Notes from a Covid Doc
by Norbert Goldfield MD (August 3rd 2020) Still Working with Patients with After Effects: My COVID experiences this week in part revolve around helping one of my patients now permanently disabled from the after-effects of COVID; large numbers of … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged 2020, Coronavirus, COVID-19, elections
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Irresponsible!
Just in case Lee Zeldin and company forget how irresponsible they are, see our prior post about Zeldin in Tulsa, at the Trump rally, and Zeldin on Airforce One without a mask. And now we are seeing the direct consequence: … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, GOP, Health Care, Trump, Trump atrocities, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged COVID, COVID-19, Herman Cain, pandemic
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The Scale of Testing Compared to the Scale of the Outbreak
Fox News, Trump (and Zeldin) are blaming the current resurgence of Covid-19 cases on increased testing. So let’s have a look at the data! I highly recommend this website: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing. The following graphs come from this site which has data … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, public health, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged COVID-19, pandemic, resurgence, testing
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Huge Crowd in Bridgehampton: Justice for Floyd
This was easily the largest rally I have ever seen on the South Fork or in Suffolk County. Official estimate according to the Patch.com about 1000 people. Just imagine Main street (Rte 27) filled on both sides and on the … Continue reading
Posted in bigotry, Civil Rights, Discrimination, fascism, police, Trump atrocities, Uncategorized
Tagged black lives matter, BLM, COVID-19, I cant breathe, justice for Floyd
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Protest in Commack drawing criticism
Some insightful letters to Newsday: The behavior of a few unruly demonstrators at the recent Commack protest was shameful [“Trump cheers LI protesters,” News, May 17]. If these few were, say, 4% of the demonstrators, the other 96% could have … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, economy, Ethics, first amendment, GOP, long island, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged COVID-19, economy, opening up, pandemic, protests
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Children with Coronavirus Produce the Same Amount of Virus as Adults
We all know that kids seem protected against the coronavirus (SARS CoV-2) that causes COVID-19 disease. They rarely get ill, although there are reports of serious and deadly disease. A different issue, is whether children can be asymptomatic carriers … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Uncategorized
Tagged children, COVID-19, infection, infectious, kids, testing, vectors
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Rampant Asymptomatic COVID-19 in a Homeless Shelter
I have previously written about “the forgotten” and why Coronavirus infection in these populations affects us all. I am talking about people in prisons, people in nursing homes and people in homeless shelters. Outbreaks of COVID-19 in these populations do … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, Poverty, Uncategorized
Tagged asymptomatic, COVID-19, homeless, outbreak, pandemic, shelter, testing
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Is the East End ‘Open for Business’ as Usual?
Gurney’s Inn, long an iconic resort on Long Island’s eastern tip at Montauk (June 5, 2013) Credit: Doug Kuntz Some East End resorts are planning to open soon. Contrary to some assertions that misinterpret Governor Cuomo’s Executive Orders, resorts are … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, public health, Town Board, Uncategorized
Tagged business, COVID-19, Gurney's Inn, pandemic, reopening
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Visiting New York City
I have not been in the city since late February 2020. Much has changed. It is now a ghost town. Nobody rides the subway and there are no cabs. On the bright side, there are plenty of parking spaces and … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, economy, Health Care, long island, Uncategorized
Tagged beaches, COVID-19, Hamptons, pandemic, recession, unemployment
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COVID is Much Much Worse than the Flu
I am still getting questions about whether COVID is any worse than the annual flu (even from my family). The simple answer is YES, IT IS MUCH WORSE! There are a number of recent posts and on-line articles discussing the … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, Uncategorized
Tagged comparison, COVID, COVID-19, flu, influenza, mortality
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How We Got Here
In the Southampton Press: How We Got Here The media has accurately reported how President Trump’s mismanagement of COVID-19 has exacerbated this global health crisis. But Trump’s damage to our public health goes back to the beginning of his … Continue reading
Posted in ACA, Coronavirus, GOP, Health Care, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged CDC, COVID-19, deflecting blame, obamacare, Prevention and Public Health Fund, public health
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Labradoodle dog breeder heads HHS response to the coronavirus
Submitted by Peggy Backman: Rebecca Ballhaus @rebeccaballhaus FDA chief Stephen Hahn asked HHS (Health and Human Services) in January if he could contact companies about possible shortages of PPE and other equipment. He was told no. Azar told associates such … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, Trump, Uncategorized
Tagged azar, civil servants, COVID-19, HHS, loyalty to trump, pendleton act, rick bright
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R&R - Reachout and Rebuild 