This is the property of the Daily Journal Corporation and fully protected by copyright. It is made available only to Daily Journal subscribers for personal or collaborative purposes and may not be distributed, reproduced, modified, stored or transferred without written permission. Please click "Reprint" to order presentation-ready copies to distribute to clients or use in commercial marketing materials or for permission to post on a website. and copyright (showing year of publication) at the bottom.
Subscribe to the Daily Journal for access to Daily Appellate Reports, Verdicts, Judicial Profiles and more...

Books

Aug. 20, 2020

Since we’re all armchair epidemiologists, let’s try toxicology, too

In the age of COVID-19, we are all armchair epidemiologists and virologists. These topics closely relate to a larger branch of human knowledge — toxicology, the study of how and why certain things external to our bodies cause disease,

Stanley Mosk Courthouse

Lawrence P. Riff

Supervising Judge
Los Angeles County Superior Court

Since we’re all armchair epidemiologists, let’s try toxicology, too
Columbia University Press

In the age of COVID-19, we are all armchair epidemiologists. We study charts and maps as the virus moves through regions and subpopulations; we fervently debate the effect of mask-wearing and school-reopening on “R-naught” values of viral transmission. And soon, if not already, we will all be armchair virologists. We will speak easily of vaccine candidate antibody titers and the outcomes of Phase 3 population studies. These topics closely relate to a larger branch of ...

To continue reading, please subscribe.
For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
Receive unlimited article access and full access to our archives,
Daily Appellate Report, award winning columns, and our
Verdicts and Settlements.
Or
$795 for an entire year!

Or access this article for $45
(Purchase provides 7-day access to this article. Printing, posting or downloading is not allowed.)

Already a subscriber?

Enewsletter Sign-up