Josh SchifferMay 7, 2020Hi everyone! I have been on clinical service for the last 2 weeks seeing patients on our infectious diseases service at the Fred Hutch an...
Josh SchifferApril 19, 2020I hope everyone is doing well, keeping sane and enjoying extra time with family. An incredible amount of information has emerged in the l...
Josh SchifferApril 6, 2020I had a bit of a special event last week in that my group’s work was mentioned in a tour de force New Yorker article by the beautiful wri...
Josh SchifferMarch 30, 2020I am sorry that I have been unable to post over the last few days. I have been busy. My method for the blog is more or less that I read s...
Josh SchifferMarch 25, 2020A paper from Sunetra Gupta (Oxford) that may have profound implications on the pandemic. Essentially, they use the simplest form of an ep...
Josh SchifferMarch 23, 2020Lower the death rate. I am happy to report that this concept has legs. A number of investigators in Seattle, myself included, are putting...
Josh SchifferMarch 21, 2020A new source of anxiety for me is that this is not a healthy pace for science. Twice in the last few days, I got faked out by new data be...
Josh SchifferMarch 19, 2020I had clinic today which was so enjoyable. The SCCA was a bit of a ghost town, but still less different from baseline than anywhere else...
Josh SchifferLower the death rateTomorrow, I will return to posting key new articles and trying to provide context. Today I am doing something different and posting a pos...
Josh SchifferMarch 17, 2020Hi everyone! Thank you all for sharing the blog with people in your life. Today there were over 1200 views of my post from yesterday. Th...
Josh SchifferMarch 16, 2020--------- A friend from Viet Nam sent me this article today (https://southeastasiaglobe.com/coronavirus-life-inside-a-vietnamese-governme...
Josh SchifferMarch 14, 2020Thanks again for positive feedback. I am so glad my comments have been helpful. For those who wish to disseminated this info, it seems li...
Josh SchifferMarch 13, 2020I am so appreciative of the positive feedback from many people. I am a relatively private person and not naturally drawn to social media....
Josh SchifferMarch 12, 2020The feeling is different since my last post. Before yesterday, the most challenging aspects of the local epidemic were the innumerable pi...
Josh SchifferMarch 10, 2020A few reflections: The impact of society and policy on the spread of the epidemic is undeniable at this point. It is clear that the epide...
Josh SchifferMarch 6, 2020And this distressing piece: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-americans-have-been-tested-coronavirus/607597/?ut...