Real Data By Leonard Zwelling Courtesy of an avid blog reader: The CDC has posted the following regarding the numbers surrounding influenza in the U.S. from October 1, 2019 through March 7, 2020 (160 days): 36-51 million cases: Mean=about 44 million cases or about 270,000 per day 370-000-670,000 hospitalizations: Mean=about 520,000 …
After The Coronavirus: Who’s Going To Get The Money? By Leonard Zwelling This blog is in response to criticisms I have received regarding my willingness to accept the fact that the coronavirus threat is a major catastrophic pandemic. Some of my readers disagree and believe that this may be no worse than seasonal flu …
The Viral Conversion Of Donald Trump: March 17-An Inflection Point? By Leonard Zwelling Finally, on Tuesday March 17 at the now daily news briefing, the current President of the United States looked presidential. He still was breaking his arm patting himself on the back for closing down travel from China even though the novel …
Old Lessons, New Crisis: Trump’s Coronavirus Address And News Conference By Leonard Zwelling It was almost 25 years ago now, on a Saturday, when then MD Anderson president John Mendelsohn, his wife Ann and I were given media training. The training by professionals in crisis management and communication was a prize won by Mrs. …
Coronavirus Testing By Leonard Zwelling As this blog has written, it is still way too early to know the full extent of the coronavirus infection of the United States’ population. Why? First, it is not clear how infectious this agent, putatively originating in a Wuhan, China animal market, really is? Second, we …
Covid-19 Is Not Routine Influenza. It’s Not Even Influenza. By Leonard Zwelling I am being pounded with emails about my latest blogs. Several have been complimentary and I thank the writers. Others have called me an alarmist making the case that the coronavirus emerging from Wuhan and spreading across the globe to Italy, South …
Leaders Lead And They Do So With Inadequate Data By Leonard Zwelling MD Anderson keeps taking it up another notch. No international business travel. No domestic business travel. Personal travel is to be registered and ought to be limited to the absolutely essential and a car is better than a plane. Meetings will consist …
America: The No-Fly Hot Zone By Leonard Zwelling MD Anderson has cancelled all business travel—period. No international travel or domestic travel will be sponsored by MD Anderson for the foreseeable future. This, of course, keeps all the faculty away from the AACR and ASCO meetings in the spring, although I suspect these meetings will …
Why I Cancelled My Travel Plans. Hint: It Wasn’t Fear Of Contracting The Coronavirus By Leonard Zwelling I am not afraid of the coronavirus. Like so many communicable diseases, it is likely not about to get to the U.S., but already here. Once widespread testing becomes available, my guess is that there will be …
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Going Viral By Leonard Zwelling I cancelled our trips to Argentina (March) and Hawaii (May). Both were long planned and we were looking forward to going. The Argentina trip was cancelled once before—in January when Genie took ill. She’s better and we were all set to go. But if you can’t drive back from …
