Jul 27, 2021
If you’re obsessing about vaccine risk, you’re missing the point The history of smallpox, public domain image from CDC Public Health Image Library I try to keep my finger on the pulse of online / social media conversations about the pandemic, and to...
Jul 17, 2021
One way or another, COVID immunity is coming to your body The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, public domain image from CDC If you have not yet been vaccinated against the coronavirus, I know some of you have your reasons. In this blog post, I’m talking to you. Some of you...
Jul 2, 2021
The coronavirus delta variant Rise of the “delta” variant of SARS-CoV-2 Percent of cases for delta shown in purple Source: Trevor Bedford of Fred Hutchinson Institute, via Twitter SARS-CoV-2 Delta and other “variants of concern” People have been asking me...
Jun 4, 2021
COVID good news from California Percent of adults with at least one COVID vaccine dose. Data from June 4, 2021 Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/03/us/virus-vaccine-states.html? Vaccines enable progress in the fight against COVID Last night I met a...
May 24, 2021
The costs of vaccine refusal This is who you protect when you get a vaccine. Source: National Cancer Institute, Bill Branson (Photographer). Public domain. Hubby saw a series of patients in his clinic last week, and an uncomfortable number of them have not been...
May 20, 2021
Pandemic Endgame: Final Chapter MichaelMaggs / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5) Victory for the vaccines {Author’s note: This essay is from a US perspective. Forgive me for this parochial view. Other parts of the world are experiencing...
