May 8, 2020
My Morning Musings: How Science is DoneTo begin, let’s get us ALL on the SAME PAGE. It is impossible – literally impossible – for the scientific community to respond to every conspiracy theory, YouTube disinformation video, Facebook armchair...
Apr 27, 2020
My Morning Musings: How Do You Kill a Virus? The answers to this question depend on where the virus is found – that is, whether it is found “on something non-living”, “on something living”, or “in something living”. So,...
Apr 20, 2020
Check out my guest column from The Plain Dealer, April 20, 2020. https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2020/04/breaking-the-coronavirus-rules-just-once-to-help-someone-in-need-it-was-the-right-thing-to-do-judi-nath.html
Apr 11, 2020
My Morning Musings: Words Matter We’re in week ??? of the COVID-19 pandemic. With so much happening on a day-to-day basis, I struggled with what to write about today. Basically, I was suffering from analysis paralysis. I knew I didn’t want to get into the...
Mar 28, 2020
My Morning Musings: Treatment, Herd Immunity, and Vaccines The race for the cure is on! So, let’s take a moment to talk about what’s making headlines right now. To begin, there is so much misinformation and disinformation circulating on social...
Mar 19, 2020
My Morning Musings: What are viruses and how do they “jump” from animals to humans? What are viruses? Viruses are just an organized collection of genetic material known as DNA or RNA enclosed by a protein shell. You can think of them as parasites, because...