A growing number of venues — restaurants, bars, gyms, airlines — are or will be requiring proof of vaccination. To meet this need Minnesota uses a smartphone app: Docket. Getting it talking to the state’s vaccination database can be challenging. … Continue reading →
Items of recent pandemic news you may have missed: How to get the most out of home rapid testing; new evidence that breakthroughs don’t transmit much; a new WHO committee to investigate virus origins; and more. Plus a frippery. A … Continue reading →
Items of recent pandemic news: Decisions soon on immunizing kids 5-11 and on boosters for Moderna and J&J; an injectable anti-viral and an oral one; new studies on delta’s virulence and aerosol transmissibility; plus a frippery. Molnupiravir works The day … Continue reading →
On August 13 I speculated whether the US had arrived at the delta wave’s peak. This turned out to be just a touch premature. CIDRAP guessed that the worldwide peak arrived around mid-September; the NY Times said early September. This … Continue reading →
Items of recent pandemic news: Detection in Laotian bats of possible SARS-CoV-2 precursors; Covid-19’s effects on the brain; progress towards an antiviral pill; why the US may fail the next pandemic too; and more. Plus a frippery. Lessons not learned … Continue reading →
Items of recent pandemic news: Auto-antibodies in long Covid; Moderna’s durability benefit over Pfizer; results from Johnson & Johnson’s two-dose trial; Pfizer’s effectiveness in kids 5-11; and who gets a Pfizer booster. Plus a frippery. FDA, CDC committee approve boosters … Continue reading →
Items of recent pandemic news: How to fix indoor air; Covid-sniffing dogs at Miami airport; an account of a “mild” breakthrough case of Covid-19; and today’s pivotal FDA meeting on boosters. Plus two fripperies. The booster debate comes to a … Continue reading →
Items of recent pandemic news: Visualizing the pandemic’s acceleration; the first DNA vaccine is authorized in India; the WHO extends its (mostly ignored) call for a moratorium on boosters; President Biden mandates vaccinations; and more. Plus a frippery. Biden’s vaccination … Continue reading →
Items of recent pandemic news: Vaccination halves chances of long Covid; the role of auto-antibodies in severe disease; rising out-of-pocket costs of Covid; the unlikelihood that September 20 will see booster shots; and more. Plus a frippery. 1. Boosters will … Continue reading →
Items of recent pandemic news: The intelligence community on SARS-CoV-2’s origins; the EU tightens up with American travelers; delta doubles the chances of hospitalization; a new variant out of South Africa; and more. Plus a frippery. 1. The C.1.2 variant … Continue reading →
Items of recent pandemic news you may have missed: Delta Air Lines’ strong encouragement for vaccination; contaminated vaccine in Japan; good news on a J&J booster; and the dent approval is not making in vaccine hesitancy. Plus two fripperies. Approval … Continue reading →
Items of recent pandemic news: Is the FDA moving too fast or too slow? Flying blind on delta breakthrough data; an early hint that boosters do what was hoped; and full FDA approval for Pfizer / BioNTech. Plus a frippery. … Continue reading →
Items of recent pandemic news you may have missed: The youngest children are strong spreaders of SARS-CoV-2; all the Covid-19 deaths that did not happen; the case against US booster shots; and more. Plus a frippery. 1. Against boosters The … Continue reading →
Items of recent pandemic news: Saliva tests may not be sensitive enough for the asymptomatic; early antiviral promise for a cholesterol-lowering drug; booster shots coming to the immunocompromised and then to all US citizens; and more. Plus a frippery. 1. … Continue reading →
Ten days ago I speculated on when the US might arrive at the delta wave’s peak, and whether cases might then begin to drop precipitously — as had been the pattern first in India (which peaked in May) and then … Continue reading →
