Dec 15, 2020
Beginning of the End I’m a little choked up as I write this: Hubby just got vaccinated. Today at the university hospital where he works, he was injected in his left arm with the first dose of a two-shot series to protect him against COVID-19. His muscle cells...
Dec 8, 2020
Swiss Cheese model of COVID prevention From New York Times article Over on Nextdoor, people are (as usual) arguing about masks, in this case, at the local post office branch. The statement: My (grandpa, friend, aunt) wore a mask but still got COVID so masks...
Dec 3, 2020
COVID vs Flu: Which is worse? Soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas, ill with Spanish flu at a hospital ward at Camp Funston. Public domain from Wikimedia A reader asked me to help them understand whether COVID is different from flu, and why we should care about a disease...
Nov 23, 2020
Risk Mitigation During the Winter Surge, and When to Quarantine Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on Unsplash Risk Mitigation During the Winter Surge, and When to Quarantine Pretty much wherever you live in the United States, your risk of being exposed to the SARS-CoV-2...
Nov 16, 2020
Vaccines, natural immunity, and fetal cells HeLa human fibroblast cells, image created by Tom Deerinck, NIGMS, NIH. Source: National Cancer Institute, public domain Vaccines and Cells With the good news coming from phase 3 clinical trials, vaccines are on many...
