by INT Admin | Jun 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
As Covid-19 continues to spread across the United States, it has become evident that the country was woefully unprepared to staff, mobilize and protect our nation’s nurses in order to meet the surge of patients presenting with a severe and contagious respiratory...
by INT Admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Whenever I lecture on the Covid-19 outbreak, someone always asks me, “Can I get infected twice?” This is a natural concern. After all, if someone suffers through the prolonged fever, hacking cough, and profound weakness and misery caused by the virus, one small...
by INT Admin | May 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dr. Julius Lutwama comments on the rapid variations emerging in the COVID-19 outbreak. Read the story by Tonny Abet published in the Monitor
by INT Admin | May 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
The word epidemic comes from the Latin term “epi demos,” meaning “upon people.” Just having an infectious pathogen is not enough to cause an epidemic. In public health, we talk about three key parts of an “epidemiologic triangle” that must come together to cause an...
by INT Admin | May 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
There is no such thing as a risk-free life. Every time we turn the key in the ignition and back out of the driveway, we could be involved in a deadly car accident, but we drive anyway because we take steps to mitigate that risk. We perform routine maintenance (change...
by INT Admin | May 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
Most reports about COVID-19 from around the world have shown that children develop less severe disease and are at very low risk of death. Now come reports, originally from Europe and then New York about a new phenomenon in children. Currently dubbed the “inflammatory...
