The delta variant of the novel coronavirus is gaining a frightening foothold in areas of the country with low vaccination rates, spurring the White House to mobilize “surge response teams” to combat the variant that threatens to undo the nation’s progress in beating back the pandemic. About 1,000 counties in the U.S. have vaccination rates… Read More »
Melbourne MPs were urgently advised to fly or drive to Canberra before midnight to attend parliament next week, just before Victorian government announced a snap statewide lockdown. Speculation mounted throughout Friday morning that a lockdown was imminent due to the worsening hotel quarantine cluster, with 13 cases linked to the outbreak. Premier Daniel Andrews later… Read More »
From Hippocrates to Doogie Howser, physicians both real and fictional have understood that improving the health of their patients requires an inquiry deeper than the sciences of physical medicine. Great physicians look beyond the physical variables to a person’s social context—the state of their housing, food, transportation, family life and other matters that contribute to… Read More »