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Around The Web
Saliva samples preferable to deep nasal swabs for testing COVID-19
ByAdmin April 27, 2020April 22, 2023
As testing for the novel coronavirus continues to scale up, a new study finds that saliva samples are a “preferable” indicator for infection than the deep nasal swabs now widely used.
The study led by the Yale School of Public Health — and conducted at Yale New Haven Hospital with 44 inpatients and 98 health care workers — found that saliva samples taken from just inside the mouth provided greater detection sensitivity and consistency throughout the course of an infection than the broadly recommended nasopharyngeal (NP) approach. The study also concluded that there was less variability in results with the self-sample collection of saliva.
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Potpourri
Do you podcast?
ByWayne Willis April 27, 2020April 22, 2023
I love podcasts. I listen to them when walking. I listened to them when driving, before being grounded by stay-at-home orders, that is.
I’m curious, though: What’s YOUR experience with podcasts? Are you a frequent listener? A podcaster?
Are podcasts moving into the mainstream far enough to reach educated Boomers like us?

To that end, please answer the following 2-minute survey. I’ll “close” the survey and […]
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Reunion Reflections
Reunion Pix from Doug Colton
ByDoug Colton April 26, 2020April 22, 2023
Editor’s Note: Doug shot many pictures and was kind enough to select (and crop!) the headshots and other shots he thought would be of interest.
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Invited Essays
The Meaning of Yale for the Class of 1969—One Man’s View
ByRichard Tedlow April 25, 2020April 22, 2023
Why is it that the four years from our arrival at Yale early in September 1965, to our graduation on June 9, 1969, have proven so important to so many of us? Most of us will be seventy-two years old in 2019, the year of our fiftieth reunion. Those four years we spent in college constitute a mere one-eighteenth of our lives. Why so important? Why is it that today you can initiate a conversation with a classmate with whom you may not have spoken in a half-century, and it will be as easy to talk to him as it was when we were undergraduates together?
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In Memoriam
Richard Earle MacKay, March 26, 2020
ByDavid Roe April 24, 2020April 22, 2023
… In the first ten years of his career, he worked with the National Indian Health Service treating hantavirus on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico and measles outbreaks in remote tribal areas near the Arctic Circle. He then transferred to the Peace Corps and served for ten years as a Chief Medical Officer in a number of countries in Africa. He was the first medical person to reach the US Embassy in Kenya after […]
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Around The Web
Yale launches clinical trial for drug to treat severe COVID-19 patients
ByAdmin April 23, 2020April 22, 2023
from news.yale.edu Yale launches clinical trial for drug to treat severe COVID-19 patients By Brita Belli | Apr. 23rd, 2020 Yale researchers will begin a clinical trial at Yale New Haven Hospital to test the effectiveness of a drug called ibudilast (MN-166) for treating acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a life-threatening lung condition developed by some of the most seriously ill COVID-19 patients. The researchers are part of Yale’s Advanced Therapies Group, which was formed…
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Potpourri
Untimely death
ByTom Weber April 20, 2020April 22, 2023
Scourges fester;
A novel virus roams;
We sequester
In isolated homes—
Clinging to a shibboleth
Or staving off untimely death?
[…]
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News
First ’69 Classwide Zoom Meeting: Ken Davis
ByWayne Willis April 19, 2020September 5, 2023
Over 120 classmates signed up to hear our classmate Ken Davis, CEO of Mt. Sinai Health System, give a short report from the front lines of COVID-19, followed by some Q&As. It was our first classwide Zoom meeting, and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Here is a recording of that session and some feedback from classmates who attended.
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Op-Ed
Make sure all Americans have access to telehealth
ByReed Hundt April 19, 2020April 22, 2023
Editor’s Note: This is an Op-Ed published on April 19th in the Washington Post.
As the covid-19 pandemic tears through the country, weaknesses in our communications and health-care systems have been laid bare. Approximately 25 percent of Americans do not have a primary care doctor, in many cases because of geographic, financial, …
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Archives
Short Film: Lipstick (Ascending) On Caterpillar Tracks
ByAdmin April 15, 2020April 22, 2023
The Yale Archives just added this short film about the fabrication and installation of the Claus Oldenburg (Yale ’50) artwork that appeared in front of Commons in May of our Senior Year. As you watch this 15-minute film, you’ll recognize a number of faces — Coffin, Scully, Brewster, and some patrician representing the Yale Corporation – Sam Chauncey? There are many student faces in the crowd, too — perhaps yours?
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Announcements
My Brush with COVID-19
ByJohn Weber April 12, 2020April 22, 2023
On Wednesday, March 18, I was scheduled for a regular follow up appointment with my Primary Care Provider. On the Monday or Tuesday prior to my appointment, her office called and asked how I was feeling. “Fine,” I said, “a mild sore throat, a little throat congestion, but I feel fine.” When I went to the appointment, initially I saw a nurse instead of my doctor. She took my vitals (temp 97.6F), and did a…
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In Memoriam
James Allen Steffenburg, February 27, 2020
ByDaniel Seiver April 8, 2020April 22, 2023
from Legacy.com
James Alan (sic) Steffenburg of New Haven died peacefully on the morning of February 27, 2020 at Yale-New Haven Hospital, after an extensive hospitalization. He was 72 years old.
Jim was born on December 17, 1947 in Libertyville, Illinois, to Lars Steffenburg and Virginia Tidmarsh Steffenburg. He grew up in […]
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Music
A Home In Hendrie Hall
ByAdmin April 8, 2020April 22, 2023
“A Home in Hendrie Hall,” is an 18-minute film by Miriam Lewin ’80. It chronicles the transformation of both the Glee Club and the University over the past 50 years — in celebration of the 50th anniversary of coeducation at Yale College. It spends a lot of time on the classes of 1969, 70 and 71, as women arrived. And it features more than a few recognizable faces of ’69ers.
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In Memoriam
Terrence Clark Miller, February 22, 2020
ByAdmin April 8, 2020April 22, 2023
Terry Miller died Feb 22 from complications due Parkinson’s disease, which he had had since 1993. After graduation in 1969, he married, went to Navy OCS, graduated, and luckily spent his three years behind a desk at the NSA rather than on a gunboat in Vietnam. In 1972 he returned to Yale, where he got his M.S., M.Phil, and PhD in computer science. From 1977-1979 he was an assistant professor in computer Science at the…
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Books
Richard Seltzer’s New Novel: Parallel Lives
ByAdmin April 8, 2020April 22, 2023
“An erudite retiree enters this facility in the isolated atmosphere of the White Mountains with hopes of finding personal revelations in the relatively structured and tranquil existence at Arcadia Estates. As soon as he enters, with the intent of reading his prized, classic books by his recliner, his life takes an unexpected […]
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Memories
John Nelson – A Remembrance
ByJohn Gazzoli April 8, 2020April 22, 2023
I was surprised and saddened to learn of the death of John Nelson. At the 50th Reunion, I was with John on the Yale golf course and at the dinner table. Others have said that John told them of his cancer, but he never said anything of the sort to me. He was the same John Nelson that I’ve known since freshman year – overly good-looking, athletic, intellectually sharp. John and I were in the…
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