Author: Jeffrey Sterling

Introduction It’s time for health self-empowerment in the fight to lower your risk of acquiring COVID-19. Here are ten specific recommendations to give you and yours the best chance to get through these next few months. Adjust your lifestyle. Do These! If you have a medical concern, call your physician or any accessible nurse line, … Continue reading Ten Simple Steps to Lower Your Risk of Acquiring COVID-19 →

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Introduction How are you coping with COVID-19? This disease has produced and is producing more cases in the U.S. than any other country in the world. Therefore, it’s time to appreciate that we all can and in some way likely will be touched by it. Sadly, for some that means dying from the disease. For … Continue reading Coping with COVID-19 →

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Introduction Creating a coronavirus vaccine seems like such a simple thing, doesn’t it? However, creating any vaccine is among the most complicated and arduous endeavors in medicine. As opposed to most medicines, a successful vaccine will be distributed to billions of people worldwide. In this Straight, No Chaser, we’ll look at the general process of … Continue reading Why Isn’t There a Coronavirus Vaccine? →

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Introduction This Straight, No Chaser addresses the latest on COVID-19 and discusses actions and next steps. Number of Cases The United States is now contracting 40% of the new cases of COVID-19 worldwide. As of this morning, there have been 428,220 cases and 19,101 deaths around the world. In the US, there have now been … Continue reading COVID-19 Update, Actions and Next Steps →

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Introduction Do you have any idea about the actual criteria for coronavirus testing? Even if you don’t want to know, if you’re talking or visiting a physician, you should be aware of what’s being used to determine (under current recommendations) your eligibility. This Straight, No Chaser presents an active set of criteria for your review. … Continue reading Actual Criteria for Coronavirus Testing →

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Introduction Would you believe me if told you there was Coronavirus good news? Even in the first of what is likely to be weeks of a shutdown of activity for many places across the nation, it’s my professional inclination to look at things from multiple angles. I want to make a good faith effort to … Continue reading The Coronavirus Good News Post →

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Introduction Yes, Coronavirus myths are a thing. Coronavirus is not an all-powerful entity that spells the end of mankind. We just have to be diligent in attacking this pandemic. There’s so much information and misinformation out there that Straight, No Chaser needs to clarify some of the more important facts to know and egregious myths … Continue reading Coronavirus Myths, Part I →

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Introduction This Straight, No Chaser discusses combating Coronavirus in the midst of the current pandemic. Here’s the question of the day: What’s the best public health response? What’s not being done that should be done? How We Got Here Let’s begin by acknowledging that much of this has become necessary because of the failure to … Continue reading Combating Coronavirus: In Support of a Mobilized National Response →

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Introduction Do you ever think about avoiding accidents? We don’t like to believe it, but so many of our ills are self-inflicted. Part of being self-empowered as relates to health is understanding where the dangers are. After all, common things happen commonly! Of course, having this knowledge helps prevent injuries. According to 2017 data from … Continue reading Avoiding Accidents →

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Introduction When you’ve tried, what have been your weight loss strategies? Excuse me for being Straight, No Chaser, but here it goes! Unless you have one of a few medical conditions or take medications that promote weight gain, weight loss strategies are simple and mostly variations of the same theme. Also, no, the best answers … Continue reading Self Empowering Weight Loss Strategies →

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