Word: fevering
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Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny. But some virtues go dormant for generations, as we've seen with thrift, making its comeback after 40 years in cold storage. I'm hoping for a sudden outbreak of modesty, a virtue whose time has surely come...
...guess it’s more about how you’re quarantined, rather than how you aren’t quarantined. If this doesn’t make total sense, then I guess you just haven’t yet suffered a fever that melts a huge piece of your cerebral cortex...
Following CDC guidelines, we cultured the first few cases, and once we had confirmed that we had documented H1N1 in our community, we proceeded to make the diagnosis of subsequent cases based on clinical features (fever, cough, headache, muscle aches). Antiviral agents—such as Tamiflu—have been reserved only for those patients who are at higher risk for complications...
...movies like “Fever Pitch” would make you believe, Boston is the most cohesive, fun-loving, patriotic, American, and classy place on earth. They do have the Red Sox after all. In reality, Boston is one of the most intensely segregated cities in America, both racially and socio-economically, it has one of the harshest and longest winters of mainstream American cities, and its inhabitants are less friendly than New Yorkers and Philadelphians combined. National “road rage” surveys consistently rank Boston as one of the worst cities in the country. Enough...
...swine flu: at the time, UHS was not equipped to identify H1N1. But, ,if it was swine flu, it certainly did not hit me with the force that overeager media outlets had portended. I had been able to walk to UHS independently, and although my sudden fever was a source of constant consternation, this was not the worst illness that I had ever dealt with, just the one currently in vogue...