by Jeff Dubin | Sep 14, 2021 | Coronavirus
Watching the horrific number of nursing home deaths at the beginning of the pandemic and the selfish, toddler-esque tantrums of the anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers, one gets the feeling that this country doesn’t care about its elderly. And they would be right. This...
by Jeff Dubin | Jul 30, 2021 | Coronavirus
30% of American adults are still not fully vaccinated, seriously weakening our efforts to crush COVID-19. The resistance to vaccination has been super stubborn and our President and many governors are exasperated. Addressing holdouts’ concerns and outright bribery...
by Jeff Dubin | Apr 19, 2021 | Chronic illness, Coronavirus, Physician bias
Novelist Lisa Grunwald, an MS sufferer, wrote a touching article for The Atlantic about how when the country opens up, her friends will get back to traveling hither and yon while she and others who live with a variety of chronic illnesses will still be confined to...
by Jeff Dubin | Oct 14, 2020 | Chronic illness, Coronavirus
Fearing the onset of serious brain rot, the other night I decided to switch up my usual entertainment choices. Rather than watch such intellectually irredeemable fare as Adam Sandler’s new cinematic gem, Hubie Halloween, I instead watched a couple TED talks. A talk...
by Jeff Dubin | Jul 27, 2020 | Coronavirus
Civil rights icon John Lewis died a couple weeks ago and America mourns. You hear the words he uttered over the course of a remarkable life and wonder if this guy was human. Indeed, a CNN commentator likened him to a saint. Here’s a guy who had his head beaten in...
by Jeff Dubin | May 16, 2020 | Coronavirus
Zip code 11355 sits deep inside Queens in the Flushing section. It borders Corona, which is one of the zip codes worst hit by coronavirus. 93% of the citizens of 11355 are minority and its median household income is significantly below the borough’s average. In...
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