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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

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 ...
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