by INT Admin | Sep 3, 2020 | Uncategorized, Video
Dr. Mark Kortepeter, infectious disease expert and “Inside the Hot Zone” author, about testing, vaccines, and why 6 months into lockdown, we still haven’t contained the coronavirus.
by INT Admin | Jul 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
In the pantheon of infectious disease killers, Ebola virus stands out as one of the deadliest. The Zaire species of Ebola kills somewhere between 40% to 90% of its victims, and usually upwards of 60% of infected people die. Only a handful of infectious diseases can...
by INT Admin | Jul 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
After months of maintaining a plateau, new Covid-19 cases in the United States are skyrocketing in certain states: Texas, California, Arizona, and Florida, to name a few. Put simply, we are losing the war with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. What is going on? During an...
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 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...
