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China Doubles Down on Zero-COVID Policy

The lockdown of Shanghai’s 25 million residents enters its 7th week of what was initially promised to be less than 7 days.   This is part of China’s “Zero-COVID” policy in which any community, regardless…

Communication Outage on Coast Was Useful Practice

On Tuesday, May 10th, at approximately 10:40 in the morning, a private construction crew inadvertently drilled into a major communication cable in Fort Bragg.  As a result, communication services were lost throughout all of Fort…

COVID Vaccine for Infants and Toddlers

Moderna announced last week that it is applying to the FDA to receive emergency use authorization (EUA) for its COVID vaccine in children ages 6 months through 5 years.  In the US, this age group…

Lessons Learned, Solutions Adopted

Last week, we discussed some of the problems that developed at Adventist Health (AH) Mendocino Coast Medical Offices as a result of the implementation of a new electronic medical record (EMR) system, Cerner.  This implementation…

Lessons Learned, Opportunities for Improvement

One of the advantages of the affiliation with Adventist Health that we looked forward to was updating our antiquated electronic medical records system.  In August of last year, we took the first step in this…

When Do Lockdowns Go Too Far? The Case of Shanghai.

On March 28th, I reported on the new Omicron variant, BA.2.  In that article, I mentioned that Shanghai, China’s largest city of 25 million was going on complete lockdown.  After the original outbreak of COVID-19…

Second COVID Booster Approved

The FDA has approved the use of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines as a second booster last week.  The scientific evidence supporting this decision is data from Israel which was the first country to…

Is Omicron BA.2 Variant a Cause for Concern?

BA.2 is a new subvariant of Omicron which was first identified in the Philippines in November.  The original variant of Omicron is referred to as BA.1.  Both BA.1 and BA.2 are more contagious than the…

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