by John McMillan | Jan 23, 2026 | COVID-19, Health
Mark Russell, King’s College London When COVID hit, healthcare systems around the world were turned upside down. Hospitals cleared beds, routine appointments were cancelled and people were told to stay at home unless it was urgent. In England, visits to family...
by John McMillan | Jan 23, 2026 | COVID-19
Dr. Philp McMillan, John McMillan The HBO series “The Last of Us” turned a fungal infection into the stuff of apocalyptic nightmares, with cordyceps spores transforming humans into zombie-like creatures. The show was fiction, but it drew on a real...
by John McMillan | Jan 16, 2026 | COVID-19
Dr. Philp McMillan, John McMillan Four months ago, Reuben Fisher was the picture of health. At fifty, the New Zealand father trained at the gym twice daily and competed in judo. He had no underlying conditions, no warning signs, nothing to suggest what was coming....
by John McMillan | Jan 9, 2026 | COVID-19
Dr. Philp McMillan, John McMillan There is a particular kind of silence that settles over an examination room when a doctor has run out of explanations. The patient sits on the table, symptomatic and suffering, while the clinician pages through test results that...
by John McMillan | Jan 2, 2026 | COVID-19
Dr. Philp McMillan, John McMillan “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” Arthur Conan Doyle put those words in the mouth of Sherlock Holmes more than a century ago, but they landed with fresh...
by John McMillan | Dec 19, 2025 | COVID-19
Dr. Philp McMillan, John McMillan When a major research institution releases findings on a controversial topic, the media response is often predictable. Nuance gets flattened. Caveats disappear. Complex data becomes a single reassuring sound bite. That’s...
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