by Ingrid Yang | Jul 3, 2020 | Wellness
This photo is composed of the countless doctors who died from COVID-19 worldwide. Zoom in. Look at the individual photos. Look at each face, who had a name, a family, and 12+ years of training, to perform the job that ultimately killed them. I’ll admit it for the...
by Ingrid Yang | Jul 2, 2020 | Wellness
Warning! Math coming your way! I wanted to dispel a common claim that masks disturb breathing. A coronavirus particle is 120 nanometers (nm) in diameter. Oxygen is 0.120 nm and Carbon Dioxide is 0.232 nm. To interpret these numbers very clearly, oxygen is 1000 times...
by Ingrid Yang | Jun 25, 2020 | Wellness
We know how to slow the spread of the coronavirus. And it’s not rocket science. It’s just plain old, run-of-the-mill, everyday science. Just because our communities and restaurants are opening back up, *nothing* has changed about this virus or its lethality. It can...
by Ingrid Yang | Jun 5, 2020 | Wellness
This morning, we physicians kneeled together in silence for 8 minutes and 46 seconds – the measure of time in which George Floyd was held down and asphyxiated until his death. It was a sobering and poignant gathering. To kneel for almost 9 minutes on our knees on the...
by Ingrid Yang | May 28, 2020 | Wellness
SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing has been touted as the holy grail – the get-out-of-COVID-jail free card. Because there are many asymptomatic carriers, some are understandably hoping: “if I’ve already had it and was asymptomatic, I could be immune!” and then can...
by Ingrid Yang | May 26, 2020 | Wellness
“If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?” ― T.S. Eliot The LA Times featured my hospital system, and specifically my hospital, Sharp Memorial, in a photo journal. It was surreal seeing the hallways and wards that I walk through on a...
