Author: Thomas DelMundo

When will the pandemic end? California’s Governor Gavin Newsom stated the obvious, that things couldn’t “return to normal” until a vaccine is developed. Dr. Fauci recently said it could take 12-18 months to develop a vaccine for SARS2 (the coronavirus that causes COVID-19). That is record-breaking speed given that the Ebola vaccine took 5 years to develop. There…

Perhaps you’ve heard of ‘herd immunity’? The term is often used to describe a national strategy to mitigate COVID-19, where business and schools remain open, and the population living ‘normally’, while letting the disease run its course and burning out naturally. In epidemiology ‘herd immunity’ means something different, which we’ll discuss shortly. Sweden is attempting to achieve herd immunity by isolating…

As people go back to work in offices, companies are going to have to modify their workplaces to comply with social-distancing laws. One of the biggest challenges stems from a remodeling decision many companies made in the early ‘aughts to follow the fashionable trend of creating “Open Offices.” They removed dividers and cubicles and fit…

The following is an attempt to work through in my own head what I know of the current state of COVID-19 and weigh the conflicting needs to stay safe and to restart our economy before it’s too late. After spending a month boning up on biology and history, I still feel dumb about where we…

Researchers in Paris have developed a way to test for a rise in new coronavirus cases, our crap. Specifically, toilet wastewater in our sewer systems. If these tests prove to be accurate and practical, it could offer a cheap, non-invasive solution for widespread COVID-19 testing to warn us of future outbreaks. Scientists have found SARS2 (the virus…