COVID-19, it’s pandemic, the fumbling attempts to head it off, all of the politicizing, the race to develop a vaccine, its distribution and administration and the curious and potentially disastrous attempts to undermine our confidence today in vaccines proven decades ago or for any disease, seem to be a fact of life today. While public acceptance of advice and programs advocated for by epidemiologists has always been difficult, many of us unknowingly owe our lives to their efforts, efforts that were they not made in years past, would have resulted in a world whose present populace might not be here, or if they were, in significantly compromised health and numbers. That is the nature of an epidemiologist’s life. Public doubt, fear and speculation, their work’s value invisible to the vast majority of us, because of what did not happen. Continue reading →