Last time I got in on the ground floor of a new disease, AIDS, I completely missed the boat. I saw early AIDS as a VA hospitalist, not so much as an endocrinologist, so I never really learned its management except as related to adapting endocrine drugs.
Ebola, West Nile, SARS all passed me by professionally.
Now we have a new infection, a serious one, that dominates the news. It is far rarer than things that I really see like diabetes, hypothyroidism, opioid OD's and respiratory infections of mostly non covid-19 pathogens. Since nobody's really an expert, most of all the President and VP, it is another chance to enter on the ground floor of a new disease. Too many distractions for me to become more than a novice at this one too. But at least I should be able to master the classification of the respiratory viruses and get a better grasp of epidemiology this time.
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