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Posts published by “Dr. William Miller”

Second COVID Outbreak at Local Nursing Home

Sherwood Oaks is a local, privately owned nursing home in Ft. Bragg.  As the only skilled nursing facility here on the Mendocino Coast, it is licensed for 79 beds and currently has 45 residents.  It…

Lessons from the Past: The 1918 Flu Pandemic (Part 3)

This is our final part in the series looking at the 1918 Influenza Pandemic.  It started in early 1918 and lasted about two years, officially ending in April 1920.  During those two years, it went…

Lessons from the Past: The 1918 Flu Pandemic (Part 2)

In Part 1, we examined one theory of how the 1918 influenza virus hopped from horses to chickens to humans and then how the dynamics of troop transport during World War I helped spread it…

Lessons from the Past: The 1918 Flu Pandemic (Part 1)

In 1918, the world experienced a pandemic caused by a particularly virulent strain of the influenza A virus.  Over the course of two years, it went around the world in four big waves, then faded. …

Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Distribution Paused

This week, the CDC and FDA announced that distribution of the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine would be put on hold until further investigation could be done into six reported cases of a rare blood…

Optimistic Future Despite Vaccine Supply Challenges

As much as one tries to provide consistent and accurate messaging throughout the past year of this pandemic, it remains a challenge because of sudden policy changes and lots of false starts and sudden stops…

Vaccine Availability on the Coast

As of this writing, 176 million doses of the various COVID vaccines have been given worldwide.  Perhaps it is not surprising that the vast majority of these have been distributed in more affluent countries.  The…

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