Making Sense of Medical Science (MSMS)

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Steve Clark, PhD is a retired university professor with a PhD in immunology and a past Special Fellow of the Leukemia Society of America. Clark has published dozens of papers based on his research and holds two drug patents. He taught medical and graduate students about cancer biology and genetics, and about research ethics. He also directed an NIH-funded PhD Graduate Program and chaired several executive-level faculty committees. Clark served on the University Chancellor’s Speaker’s Bureau. While retired, Clark has been blogging on the COVID pandemic, which is the subject of his next book.

The Statistics Get Grimmer

As of 8 AM Monday EST, the COVID-19 toll is 14,761,732 total cases and 282,345 total deaths, up nearly 1.4 million cases and nearly 15,500 deaths versus this time a week ago.

That makes COVID-19 the leading cause of death for Americans by a considerable margin, topping heart disease and cancer, which each kill roughly 12,000 people in the U.S. each week.

And still people think the inconvenience of wearing a face mask and socially isolating is a bigger problem!

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