Author: glenn

Santa Clara County new cases peaked in the middle of August and are now back down to levels slightly below the beginning of the month. Santa Clara County new deaths were flat for the first half of the month and have been rising during the second half. Santa Clara County hospitalizations have fallen during August.… Continue reading August Month-end Summary

New Santa Clara County cases have increased dramatically during the month of May, from 29 cases on June 1 to 105 June 30, and 202 on July. New Santa Clara County deaths have hovered near zero with an average of .5 per day over most of the month. The fact that the death count has… Continue reading June Month-end Summary

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues, the question is: should the government start allowing businesses to open or should they remain closed? This is not quite the black-or-white yes-or-no question it appears to be, since there are multiple types of businesses that pose different degrees of risk for increasing the spread of the disease. Moreover, the… Continue reading To Open or not to Open

Santa Clara County deaths had a spike of 5 in one day on May 6, and has since fallen to wavering between 1 and 0 most days since then. There were 144 people hospitalized in the county on May 1 and we have fallen more or less continuously to the current number of 52. The… Continue reading May Month-end Summary

Today a friend of mine sent me a link to an op-ed piece in the New York Time. Here’s the link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/opinion/coronavirus-vaccine-polio.html And here’s my response to my friend: I’m not sure, however, that the polio virus is a good parallel.  There are, after all, vaccines in clinical trials right now.  Maybe they won’t pass the… Continue reading When Will We Get a Vaccine?

One of the complaints I have about the way Covid-19 health statistics are reported on the news is that they always report the totals. It makes for mighty big numbers and sounds scary. (I’m not saying Covid isn’t scary.) For example, on the day I write this, there are over 1.5 million cases in the… Continue reading One Problem with Covid Statistics

The Covid lockdown has caused a blossoming of chalk art in the streets. It’s a pleasure to see. Here’s one I saw the other day.

This past weekend we took a walk through the former Cubberley High School which is now a recreational location run by the Parks Department. Except, now, of course, its closed. I keep thinking I should right a new blog post, but the fact is my days are pretty routine. Then I got the idea, during… Continue reading Weekend Walk – Photo Journal

I saw this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV8wWhjTKRU which says, in small part, that ACE Inhibitors may help lesson Covid-19 lung damage. So I did some further research this morning and found this article from the New England Journal of Medicine:  https://www.jwatch.org/na51345/2020/04/09/ace-inhibitors-and-arbs-during-covid-19-pandemi  which takes a more balanced stand that ACE inhibiters may make Covid-19 worse or maybe better. Nevertheless… Continue reading “ACE Inhibiters during the Covid-19 Pandemic”

Since Mid-March I have had a slight dry cough. I took the CDC self evaluation which said “call your doctor if you feel worse”. I realized then, and still think, that the cough could be due to a mild case of Covid-19. I originally thought it might be start of more severe symptoms, so far… Continue reading Talking to the Doctor