If you like going to the gym as much as I do, you may be wondering if it’s safe to go during the COVID-19 pandemic. But depending on where you live, you may not actually have a choice. For better or worse, officials around the world have been closing down gyms in an effort to…
Category: COVID-19
Coronavirus, Exercise, and Health: An Evidence-Based Guide for Athletes & Lifters
Why should you listen to me? I have a background in exercise science (B.Sc) and epidemiology (PhD). Since the pandemic hit, I read and wrote a lot about the coronavirus, including a review of cost-effective interventions to suppress COVID-19 and a series of long-form articles with Tomas Pueyo that have been viewed about 60 million…
Working Out & Lifting Weights With a Face Mask: What Do the Experts Say?
Why should you listen to me? I have a background in exercise science (B.Sc) and epidemiology (PhD). Since the pandemic hit, I read and wrote a lot about the coronavirus, including a review of cost-effective interventions to suppress COVID-19 and a series of long-form articles with Tomas Pueyo that have been viewed about 60 million…
Evidence-based, Cost-effective Interventions to Suppress the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Rapid Systematic Review
How can we control the COVID-19 pandemic cost-effectively? I worked with Tomas Pueyo’s group around the clock to answer that question. We found that some interventions are way more cost-effective than others (e.g. for H1N1 influenza, contact tracing was estimated to be 4,363 times more cost-effective than school closures—$2,260 vs. $9,860,000 per death prevented [Madhav…
Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance
Update: Since translating The Hammer and the Dance, I have joined Tomas Pueyo’s volunteer team. We have published 3 more articles on Medium (one, two, three) and we’re publishing a scientific study of Cost-effective Interventions to Suppress the Covid-19 Pandemic. Tomas Pueyo, the author of Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now, just wrote another huge…
COVID-19: Why America May Be Hit Hard for 3-4 Months & What To Do
Updated March 20 with new US cases by time and predictions based on 5 countries. It’s here. COVID-19 hit China, Europe, and is grinding America to a halt. On March 13, President Trump declared a national emergency. Still, as a PhD in Public Health who specialised in epidemiology, I’m worried. Here’s why: The virus is…
Exercise as Medicine—Evidence for 26 Chronic Diseases
Is exercise really medicine? Yes, according to reviews by Pedersen and Saltin (2015) and Luan et al. (2019). There’s now evidence for prescribing exercise as therapy in 26 different chronic diseases. In case you’re short on time, here’s the full list: Musculoskeletal diseases (low back pain, tendon injury, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, and hip fracture) Metabolic diseases…