Category: Covid-19

Gross hotels. I said it. This is something we often forget, especially if we are staying in a more upmarket place than Schitt’s Creek Motel, […]

My new night ritual is to hand wash a stack of day masks in the sink (a common thing we do in 2020 with a […]

Time, space, people, place. As businesses open and things start happening again, I keep thinking about these factors. Spending a lot of time in a […]

Wearing a face shield is a trashy but necessary part of life right now, and this annoyance is perhaps the most annoying for those who […]

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic – even in January and February, when things really didn’t get worse in the US – there have […]

While protests are necessary in a democracy – a ploy to get your voice heard between elections – any large gathering carries the risk of […]

As far as I can tell from my daily walks, masks have gradually become more common over the past month or two. Some are wearing […]

Update: we’re done! Join us at 1PM ET for a Q&A with Konstantin Kanakis, who is here to answer your questions about all types of […]

As we get to the seventh, eighth, or ninth week of what the hell we are going through, we all end up in completely different […]

Quarantine was never right. “Rediscovery” is also not a very accurate term. What we are experiencing as a society is unprecedented and we have no […]

Update: and you’re done! Join us at 1 p.m. ET to answer questions live with Dr. Saskia Popescu , an infectious disease epidemiologist who also […]

It seems that every week of this crisis has its own theme. There was a week in early March when many of us experienced isolation […]

The questions and answers are over. Thanks to Dr. Hafiz! As we all live in a pandemic, one of the pressing questions is how to […]

It’s been just over a week since the CDC asked us to wear cloth masks. I hear from a major grocery shopper in our family […]

UPDATE: And you’re done! Many thanks to René F. Najera, DrPH. He is an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and […]

Welcome to our weekly discussion, now called the Coronavirus Roundtable. Once again, I’d love to hear what you’ve heard about our current pandemic, especially if […]

Science about COVID-19 is advancing faster than any previous outbreak, with the scientific community going from discovering the virus to starting a vaccine trial in […]