by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 2, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Stopping the COVID-19 pandemic depends on finding a successful vaccine just as a vaccine helped to stop the scourge of polio. Until we have a safe and effective vaccine, the only way we have to slow down the pandemic is to keep infected people away from those who have...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 2, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
A review of 4,103 patients found that obesity and its resultant inflammation, heart disease and diabetes are the most common conditions found in patients requiring hospitalization with COVID-19 (Physician’s Weekly, pre-print, April 14, 2020). Another study of...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 27, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
We have no drugs yet proven to prevent or treat COVID-19, although some drugs appear promising, as do transfusions of blood donated by people who have recovered and are now immune. The virus is spread from one person to another; it has not been shown to be spread...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 4, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Tight restrictions in the United States will continue. The president has announced that federal guidelines requiring most Americans to avoid non-essential travel, non-essential work, eating at bars and restaurants, and gathering in groups of more than 10, would be...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 30, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
The World Health Organization (WHO) gave the new coronavirus the name “COVID-19” on February 11, 2020, and declared it a pandemic on March 10, 2020. A review of 22 studies on similar human coronaviruses such as SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 28, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
The United States now has the most cases of COVID-19 in the world because we were not prepared for the pandemic. COVID-19 first appeared in early December in a seafood and live animal market located next to a major train station in Wuhan, China. Three nearby...
