Medical Archives - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 22:26:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 April Fools: Optical Equity Initiative https://www.scottbradford.us/2025/04/01/optical-equity-initiative/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:03:39 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=88855 For April Fools Day 2025, Off on a Tangent was a little blurry. Here’s why: I’m pleased to announce that Off on a Tangent will be participating in an important new program: the Optical Equity Initiative. About sixty percent of Americans are forced to wear glasses or contacts. This is a troubling example of deeply […]

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]]> Pancreases Sue Insulin Makers https://www.scottbradford.us/2024/06/25/pancreases-sue-insulin-makers/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 01:31:58 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=84394 The International Association of Pancreases (IAP) today announced a lawsuit on behalf of its members against makers of artificial insulin, including Sanofi, Eli Lilly, and Novo Nordisk. The suit alleges that numerous manufacturers of insulin have refused to license the design of the peptide hormone from the organ that created it. If successful, the suit […]

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]]> Send China the COVID-19 Bill https://www.scottbradford.us/2022/01/24/send-china-the-covid-19-bill/ Mon, 24 Jan 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=45856 The government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) bears primary responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic. Even if the virus itself developed naturally, the PRC’s actions in the early days of the outbreak guaranteed that the world would never have any real chance of stopping it. First they denied that anything was happening. Then, when […]

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]]> Time-Traveling COVID Variant Identified https://www.scottbradford.us/2021/12/11/time-traveling-covid-variant-identified/ Sun, 12 Dec 2021 01:01:28 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=45081 Scientists studying the genome of SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, have learned that a future variant of the virus traveled back in time from 2029 to 1984 on a mission to assassinate Doctor Anthony Fauci before he could be appointed director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The […]

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]]> COVID-19: I’m Done https://www.scottbradford.us/2021/07/30/covid-19-im-done/ Fri, 30 Jul 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=43123 On March 12, 2020, Governor Ralph Northam (D) declared a state of emergency in the Commonwealth of Virginia because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused it. On March 23, 2020, Northam imposed the first public health restrictions: Restaurants and gyms were closed and social distancing requirements were put in place. I […]

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]]> The Emergency is Over https://www.scottbradford.us/2020/08/31/the-emergency-is-over/ Mon, 31 Aug 2020 17:19:43 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=35774 The Commonwealth of Virginia has been in an official state of emergency because of the COVID-19 epidemic since March 12, 2020. Governor Ralph Northam (D) declared as much in Executive Order 51, which remains in effect until amended or rescinded. In mid-March, Virginia was just beginning to see its first cases of COVID-19, the illness […]

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]]> COVID-19 Tracking in Virginia https://www.scottbradford.us/2020/04/25/covid-19-tracking-in-virginia/ Sun, 26 Apr 2020 01:20:43 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=33837 This post is no longer being updated regularly. For current information about COVID-19 in Virginia, please refer to the Virginia Department of Health. The Commonwealth of Virginia continues to deal with COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019), a respiratory illness that originated in Wuhan, China, last year and has since spread throughout the world. In an effort […]

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]]> April Fools? https://www.scottbradford.us/2020/04/01/april-fools/ Thu, 02 Apr 2020 03:41:01 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=33493 You might have come to my web site today looking for some kind of April Fools joke. I do one nearly every year. Sometimes they’re pretty funny (if I don’t say so myself). Last year, I broke with tradition by launching my half-serious presidential campaign. I thought it would be funny to leave people wondering […]

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]]> Virginians Ordered to Stay At Home https://www.scottbradford.us/2020/03/30/virginians-ordered-to-stay-at-home/ Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:03:56 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=33450 Governor Ralph Northam (D-VA) has issued Executive Order 55 (PDF link), which orders all Virginians to stay at home amid the worldwide COVID-19 viral outbreak. According to a statement from the governor’s office, Virginians may leave their homes only for certain permitted reasons, including “to seek medical attention, work, care for family or household members, […]

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]]> How To Avoid the Coronavirus https://www.scottbradford.us/2020/03/02/how-to-avoid-the-coronavirus/ Tue, 03 Mar 2020 03:35:36 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=32967 The coronavirus outbreak has the world on-edge, and everybody seems to be concerned about catching it. The virus, SARS-CoV-2 (formerly known as 2019-nCoV), typically causes flu-like symptoms and appears to spread easily from person to person. There are ten steps that you can take starting right now to reduce your risk: Wash your hands at […]

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