Pictured above is Ghostbusters’ Dr. Peter Venkman who spoke for experts everywhere when he famously warned, “Back off, man. I’m a scientist.” I recently had an interesting conversation with a suburban Philadelphia emergency room physician regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. We discussed, among other things, the wide divergence between the theories and predictions of the public health experts and the reality that the physicians and nurses on the frontline are confronting. Remember how we had to shelter in place in order to “flatten the curve” of infections so that our medical facilities could somehow survive the predicted tsunami of COVID-19 […]