Senior Epidemiologist Speaking on COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has morphed to the point where we have a fairly mild but extremely transmissible disease.

What’s next? No one knows. At least, that’s what my old school chum and now extremely senior epidemiologist Peter Spitzer, MD says.  We all hope that there are no further mutations, and this ends up being a permanent, though manageable part of public health, like the flu, though there is no hard data to establish this belief with any certainty.

One point of our consternation is the clogging of our hospitals, which are overflowing with unvaccinated slobs, which means that innocent, responsible people have to wait for critically needed services.  Can’t hospitals put a hard limit as to the percentage of ICU beds they will assign to these human swine?

Another worry is that mutations happen in countries with very low vaccination rates.  Although there is an argument to be made for vaccinating Americans first, this may be self-defeating in the long run.

In any case, my hat’s off to whoever made this fabulous book cover.