LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID In COVID Era, Makin’ Whoopee Even in the throes of a major worldwide pandemic that has killed over a million people, will probably kill millions more, has damaged the health of at least as many, and caused an economic recession, there is still a need for scientific research to progress. COVID-2 has spurred thousands of studies and research papers in all fields but I think I found the one that probably tops them all.…
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Life In The Time Of COVID-19 The President & All His Men The good news is that the president seems to be doing OK medically. The bad news is that people around him are being put at risk because of his refusal not only not to restrict himself in any manner but, in fact, his flaunting his ability to do anything he wants, whenever he wants. So many of his senior staff, their staff, Secret Service, White House workers and…
LIFE IN TIME OF COVID-19 Medical Needs, Politics Guide President As He Battles Case Of COVID By RICHARD STERNBERG • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com I have been trying to keep up with the fire hose of information that is being produced about President Trump’s case of COVID-19. On top of that, consider the NFL’s “crisis” with the Tennessee Titans Open – how dare anyone refer to that as a crisis? – and the latest press conference from Governor Cuomo, which was…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 Tragedy Proves COVID No Hoax I graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine in 1978. Adeline Fagan graduated from the SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine in 2019. She started a residency program in obstetrics and gynecology in Houston. She died from COVID-19 Saturday, Sept. 19, age 28. She most likely became infected working a shift in her hospital’s emergency room in the late spring. From what I’ve read,…
LETTER from RICHARD STERNBERG Without MacGuire, Trustees Average 65 To the Editor: I strongly urge citizens of Cooperstown to vote for MacGuire Benton in the run-off election Tuesday, Sept. 29, for the Village Board. I have worked with MacGuire on the board for 1½ years and before that in other endeavors for the past three years. Mac is exceedingly hard working and thorough in his preparation. He has recognized issues and potential solutions, on occasion before the rest of us.…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 We’re Getting Closer To A COVID-19 Vaccine. Then What? It appears that we are getting closer to the development of vaccines for COVID-19. There have been some missteps in the process, including the development of an unexplained illness in one participant in the U.K. study of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine. This required a halt to the study for about a week while the data was being reviewed. The study is progressing again at this time.…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID Studies Seek Vaccine, But Treatments Too There has been a great deal of information both published and awaiting publication in the scientific literature about COVID-19. There’s so much literature it’s sometimes difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff, determining how accurate information may be no matter how well-meaning the researchers. In the treatment of COVID-19. There are no fully FDA-approved medications or treatment protocols. So far, the FDA has released EUAs (emergency use…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 Even Now, Is Enough Being Done At SUNY? By RICHARD STERNBERG • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” wrote George Santayana. What about the recent history of the spread of COVID-19 and the attempted reopening of colleges was so difficult for SUNY Oneonta to learn? How can you trust 6,000 adolescents and very young adults to do what is correct when set free after being…
Week 1, All Agree: Masks Being Worn In Downtown Coop By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Kevin Kress, who was raised in Richfield Springs, brought his family from Little Falls to Cooperstown last weekend, and was neither surprised by the village’s new mandatory-mask law, or that most everybody seemed to be obeying it. “We were in Lake Placid last weekend; they had done the same thing there,” said Kress, who was aware – and undeterred by –…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 Ask Your Local Governments: Take Care Of Us By RICHARD STERNBERG • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com On Sunday, a friend of mine was talking to a family from South Carolina. They told him how bad it was down there now and how great it was up here and how we had beaten the virus. They talked for a while, then walked away down Main Street. None of them were wearing masks, nor knew if they…