Jun 29, 2020
Coronavirus mutation D614G: does it matter? SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus strain An article in today’s Washington Post reports that scientists are busy investigating the emergence of a dominant strain of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that differs slightly from the version...
Jun 24, 2020
Pandemic Progress Report: California, June 24 Pandemic Progress Report: Sacramento California, June 24 Hold tight. The coronavirus is on the move. Back during shelter-in-place days, hubby and I would talk about how the pandemic felt like something that was happening...
Jun 23, 2020
Can other vaccines protect against coronavirus? Can a vaccine against a different microbe provide protection against SARS-CoV-2? Nonspecific immune enhancement by BCG or MMR vaccines: Maybe, but I wait for data. A few days ago, the American Society for...
Jun 8, 2020
Advance Care Planning in time of pandemic Death of Raphael, Engraver John Sartain, American, 1808–1897. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Open access. Early in the pandemic, a reader suggested that I write something about advance directives. I agreed this was...
Jun 3, 2020
Pandemic misinformation Pandemic misinformation & conspiracies Conspiratorial thinking has been on the rise on both the left and the right in the US for years (The Atlantic just ran an entire issue on the topic). The coronavirus pandemic provides fertile ground...
