11 Nov 2020

COVID Quarantine So you have to quarantine someone for COVID-19 due to a close contact or State rules? It's not that hard if you think through and understand the risks.  I have had to do this twice, once in March when a family member came from NY to live with us for a while.  That was when Florida had the mandatory 14-day quarantine for visitors from New York and a few other States. ...

09 Nov 2020

This one was fun. Join Dr. Nick as "Doc. Brown" in this Telehealth visit with his patient Fred Goldstein as they debunk some myths: Coronavirus is the common cold Bleach and how to take it Should I spray bleach over my body Vitamin C protects from COVID and where are we with Vaccines, don't they already exist? Also, get your flu shot, and be sure to update your medica...

09 Nov 2020

By: Fred Goldstein and Nick van Terheyden, MD A lot of companies are operating during the COVID pandemic in a way they feel comfortable, based upon doing their own research and following the guidelines and recommendations they have identified. While this may seem like a sound strategy, we have seen and learned that many times this is not enough. A Recent Example I'll discuss an exam...

03 Nov 2020

  In this episode, Dr. Nick and Fred discuss some tips for quarantine and isolation and the issue of aerosolization and dose. Based on this excellent article The Dose Makes the (risk of) Infection by Dr. Richard Corsi. Our training modules are available to help businesses, education facilities, and employers get their employees, staff, customers, and students back to work an...

02 Nov 2020

HealthcareNOW Radio and Podcast Network · PopHealth Week: Michael Fichman, MCP Researcher and Lecturer at UPenn SPEAKERS Fred Goldstein, Michael Fichman, Gregg Masters   Gregg Masters  00:09  PopHealth Week is brought to you by Health Innovation Media. Health Innovation Media brings your brand messaging alive via original or value added digitally curated content for ...

29 Oct 2020

One of the issues we face with COVID-19 is quickly identifying those who are infected, isolating them, and rapidly contact tracing those who have been in Close Contact as per the CDC guidelines (which were recently updated). To date, this has been done through lab testing of symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals.  Issues with this include the costs of the tests, the specific test used...

26 Oct 2020

In this episode, Dr. Nick dives deep into wastewater analysis as a means to identify people infected with Coronavirus and Fred discusses a recent comment out of the White House that "We can't control the virus". Now is not the time to let fatigue cause us to lower our guard, we can't control the weather either but we do things to reduce the risk. Check out www.safehealthwork.com fo...

17 Oct 2020

 In this week’s episode, Fred Goldstein and Dr. Nick van Terheyden discuss transformative technologies from the 2 Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry this year, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing” – aka CRISPR. A technology that is revolutionizing medicine in general but also part of another initiative to detect SARS-CoV-2 u...

17 Oct 2020

In this week’s episode, Fred Goldstein and Dr. Nick van Terheyden discuss the challenge of managing behavior and what to do with students, employees, and others who are in isolation or quarantine. We break down the difference between quarantine and isolation and how to manage this in the context of rules and regulations and individual freedom and rights Our training modules are availa...