Gary Cornell

“That’s some catch, that Catch-22,” he observed. “It’s the best there is,” Doc Daneeka agreed.” — a conversation in Joseph Heller’s novel “Catch-22” The risk of both hospitalization and death from Covid 19 increase greatly with age. Approximately 80% of the deaths from Covid 19 are people over 65 (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/older-adults.html). Reporting to date has not … Read more

I said a lot about MDs as not usually being a great source of information about the public health aspects of a pandemic in my last blog. Now I want to take up the remaining talking heads that you will see on TV. Let’s start with politicians because they almost never have a clue. Why? … Read more

I watch too many news shows and one consequence is that I see way too many talking heads saying things for which they are unqualified to have an opinion on. The worst offenders are the MDs. Look, obviously becoming a board certified doctor in any specialty is hard and you are probably pretty smart, but … Read more

Noah Feldman, a very smart law professor at Harvard wrote a terribly misguided column for Bloomberg on an emergency use authoritrization for a Covid 19 vaccine (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-09-04/we-should-cheer-a-covid-19-vaccine-even-from-trump-s-fda). I wrote this response and submitted it to Bloomberg but they decided not to publish it. My mom used to tell me that just because I was able … Read more