by John McMillan | Feb 20, 2026 | COVID-19
Dr. Philip McMillan, John McMillan Are people just getting sicker? Not in the abstract, population-health-textbook sense, but in the blunt, year-on-year, trolleys-stacked-in-corridors sense that emergency departments across the United Kingdom are now documenting in...
by John McMillan | Feb 13, 2026 | COVID-19
Dr. Philip McMillan, John McMillan Here is something most people never think about: your body is full of viruses that never left. If you had chickenpox as a kid, the varicella zoster virus is still inside you, tucked away in the nerve roots along your spine. If you...
by John McMillan | Feb 6, 2026 | COVID-19
Dr. Philp McMillan, John McMillan You trust your doctor. You trust the evening news. You trust that someone, somewhere, is paying attention to the numbers. But what if that trust is the very thing putting you at risk? Not because skepticism should slide into...
by John McMillan | Jan 30, 2026 | COVID-19
Dr. Philp McMillan, John McMillan On January 27, 2026, the BBC reported what epidemiologists had long feared: Nipah virus had surfaced again, this time in India’s West Bengal state. Thailand immediately began screening passengers at airports. Two confirmed...
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...
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