by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 8, 2021 | 1492, Helper t-cells, HLA, immunity, Indan history, Indian history, indigenous americans, Indigenous population of America, infectious diseases
Since the beginning of this pandemic, I have been struck by the outsized impact of Covid-19 on American Indians, and by the lack of serious discussion of their apparent special vulnerability to the disease. The stories we read and hear are about bad water and poor...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 13, 2020 | 1491, Charles Mann, COVID-19, epidemics, Helper t-cells, HLA, Indigenous population of America, Pandemics, smallpox
Years ago, when I was the Director of an organization called Fishtrap, we had a conference at Wallowa Lake on “Fire.” Stephen J. Pyne, the McArthur Fellow who wrote the books on fire in America, was the featured speaker. Forest Service and BLM firefighters from across...
