Tucson Festival of Books – Live
Meet me at this FREE Event – March 12 & 13, 2022 Whew! What a flurry of activity! It’s getting exciting! The Tucson Festival of Books on the campus of …
VACCINES & BAYONETS on NPR Radio
KCBX 89.5 FM, “Issues and Ideas” Central Coast Public Radio! Author, Bee Bloeser, is interviewed on the Issues and Ideas segment: Wilmer and I discuss my book, VACCINES & BAYONETS: …
NPR podcast features Vaccines & Bayonets
So honored to be interviewed on NPR’s Journeys of Discovery! Thank you, Tom Wilmer! Vaccines & Bayonets NPR interview
7 Years in the making – Africa smallpox memoir released!
RESPECTED JOURNALISTS ARE TALKING **From Sasha Polakow-Suransky, Deputy Editor of Foreign Policy magazine:“At a time when vaccines are front page news and a deadly pandemic is raging across the globe. . …
VACCINES & BAYONETS! Coming SOON! Watch for it!
After more than six years of working on my historical memoir, Vaccines & Bayonets: Fighting Smallpox in Africa amid Tribalism, Terror and the Cold War, it’s almost here! With this …
TRAVEL TO AFRICA
Between fitful catnaps, wrapped in the economy cabin’s coarse blanket and recycled air, my mind touched down here and there on events that had led to this life-altering move.
PUBLISHING MY MEMOIR–Week 3
The historical memoir I started writing seven years ago couldn’t be more relevant to today! It’s time to publish VACCINES & BAYONETS: Fighting Smallpox in Africa amid Tribalism, Terror and …
CONTACT TRACING COVID-19: WHERE’S THE VIRUS GOING NEXT?
They had to step up their surveillance, search for any case lurking undetected.. . . They had to prevent re-introduction of [the disease], a daunting challenge among a mobile people.
Why Does CDC Change its COVID-19 Guidelines?
We often hear complaints about changing recommendations from CDC and other experts we look to for guidance. But it would be more concerning if communicable disease experts weren’t learning anything from new scientific findings and new experience in the field. Weren’t learning anything that could improve our response.
CORONAVIRUS CONTACT TRACING AND LOCKDOWN: Learning from Smallpox
Coronavirus. Quarantine. Social distance. Contact tracing. Lockdown. New terms and questions dominate our consciousness. Vaccine—where’s the vaccine? With no vaccine and no proven treatment for COVID-19, we isolate, wear masks …