Covid-19

Other countries still require it — I scheduled my PCR Covid test Wednesday morning, in plenty of time to be allowed into St. Kitts when I fly back on Saturday. At 10:25am, en route, an email reminded me about my 10:30am appointment at a nearby Walgreen’s. I pulled up to the drive-through pharmacy. A paper sign…

in 2022 — So, apparently we are supposed to ‘live with covid’ and treat covid like the common cold or flu. Let me start by saying that this disease is nothing like flu or the common cold. I returned home from London on Monday only to discover that I felt a little unwell…

A Data Analysis of the Public’s Adherence to Travel Restrictions During the First Year of the SARS-COV2 Pandemic. — The first year of the SARS-COV2 pandemic, from March 2020 to the end of February 2021, was characterised by on-again/off-again periods of lockdowns and travel restrictions across most of the world, as countries tried to curb the transmission of SARS-COV2 and to manage the disease burden on their overloaded healthcare…

Mortality Has New Meaning I’ve faced death a few times. I had pneumonia, I’ve had the flu, I’ve gotten a severe concussion once, I’ve been in a house fire, I even was in a building that had its roof ripped off in a microburst — I watched large parts of…

Thanks to the digital world, it isn’t that hard — *A revised article written almost two years ago. During this season of Coronavirus, COVID-19, my father’s side of the family has two new members. Two of my first cousins have welcomed baby girls within nine months of each other. The first was born in January 2020 of this year and…

COVID-19 led to my highest fever since I was hospitalized with the Swine Flu in October 2015 in Thailand with a 103.5 fever. — At 6 pm on Wednesday, June 22, I tested positive for COVID-19. During the afternoon on Saturday, June 18, my fever peaked at 102.4 degrees and hovered at 102 for about 5 hours. My fever was gone when I rolled into bed at around 10 pm that night, and it…