by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 15, 2020 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
Here’s another insightful blog from Dr. Marissa Carter. Read her previous (very popular) blogs on the origins of COVID-19 and other topics by clicking here. –Caroline The WHO said WHAT about COVID-19? The World Health Organization (WHO) is the public health arm...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 3, 2020 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
Saying “No” to Immunity COVID-19 is a pandemic because no one in any country was immune to the novel virus which, it turns out, is highly infectious and occasionally deadly. We are not sure whether individuals who recover from COVID-19 infections will be immune to a...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 2, 2020 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
Check out this interview with our popular guest blogger, Dr. Marissa Carter, about the impact COVID-19 has had on research ethics. Here is the link to the excellent article on research ethics, written by my friend Deborah Borfitz and published in Clinical Research...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 12, 2020 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
On March 1st, my friend and colleague, Marissa Carter, PhD emailed me a graph of her COVID-19 infection rate model. After seeing it, I put my mother in quarantine the following week. Her model turned out to be far more accurate than the Harvard model (or other models)...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 27, 2020 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
Here’s another guest blog from Dr Carter. (If you didn’t read her post on the origins of COVID-19, be sure to take a look because it’s chilling.) This is food for thought as we try to reopen the economy. –Caroline Let’s look at some recent epidemiological data...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 24, 2020 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
Here’s another guest blog by Dr. Marissa Carter. Sit down before you read it. You may want to pass this on! –Caroline COVID-19 Virus: The Origin Story The accepted origins story is that this virus crossed from some animal to a human at a wet market, and this...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 13, 2020 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
On March 1st, my friend and colleague, Marissa Carter, PhD emailed me a graph of her COVID-19 infection rate model. After seeing it, I put my mother in quarantine the following week. Her model turned out to be far more accurate than the Harvard model (or other models)...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 8, 2020 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
On March 1st, my friend and colleague, Marissa Carter, PhD emailed me a graph of her COVID-19 infection rate model. After seeing it, I put my mother in quarantine the following week. Her model turned out to be far more accurate than the Harvard model (or other models)...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 3, 2020 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
Guest Blog by Marissa Carter On March 1st, I emailed a number of people a model I had developed (see Fig 2 below) for the USA. Many people said it was unbelievable but if you look, it accurately predicts exactly what has happened in the USA. It actually beat the...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Feb 27, 2017 | Dr. Marissa Carter, Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program
I have long been fascinated by the prediction of wound healing. Well over 15 years ago Dr. David Margolis and his colleagues told us—and still tell us today—that simpler models are better, that starting with initial wound age and area and a grading of the severity of...
