May 18, 2020
COVID-19 and the Immune System of Children and Adults Information about rare coronavirus-related syndrome in kids, courtesy of New York City Health COVID-19 and the Immune System of Adults and Children My PhD is in the field of immunology. Thirty years ago I took an...
May 15, 2020
Pandemic Progress Report: California, May 15 COVID-19 death rates per 100,000 population, by age. New York Health https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page Pandemic Progress Report: California, May 15 In my final Endgame post (#5) I introduced Tomas...
May 14, 2020
More coronavirus testing: New antigen test Sofia antigen test by Quidel New antigen test for SARS-CoV-2 infection A few days ago, the US FDA issued an emergency use authorization for a third category of coronavirus test. I’ve written previously about the RT-PCR...
May 12, 2020
Bats and zoonotic viruses Image courtesy of CDC Public Health Image Library Coronaviruses and bats SARS-CoV-2 is a coronavirus that infected a human for the first time in the autumn of 2019. We believe this virus originated in some kind of bat because its genetic...
May 9, 2020
What’s the deal with contact tracing? PCR reagent test kits. Image courtesy of CDC Public Health Image Library Testing and Contact Tracing Yesterday the Sacramento Bee reported an escalation in the tension between California’s governor and the counties in the...
May 8, 2020
Coronavirus on campus: The UCSD plan Last week I posted about considerations for colleges reopening this fall in the time of coronavirus. The following email recently arrived from my son’s school, the University of California-San Diego. I am so impressed by this...
