This newsletter is tapering down. For 25 months I have been documenting the medical and scientific history of this extraordinary time. The country now acts as if it is over; what urgency the pandemic still commanded is leaching out. Herewith … Continue reading →
Items of recent pandemic news: Moderna announces preliminary results for their vaccine in children; the White House rolls out the one-stop information site covid.gov; FDA authorizes a fourth shot for older adults; and much more. Plus a frippery. Apologies to … Continue reading →
This week marks two years since the WHO declared a pandemic. As the Omicron wave recedes, here are some longer-form perspectives on where we are headed and where we should perhaps be headed instead. Plus a Ukrainian frippery. Quote of … Continue reading →
Items of recent pandemic news: A new, wildly divergent SARS-CoV-2 strain in deer; mental health sequelae in Covid-19 survivors; an update on locating a supply of Paxlovid; new CDC masking guidance; and more. Plus a Ukrainian frippery. Quote of the … Continue reading →
Items of recent pandemic news: Antihistamines may help some long Covid; J&J pauses manufacturing vaccine; FDA authorizes Eli Lilly’s injectable monoclonal; how boosters wane; and a further delay in shots for the youngest children. Plus a frippery. Quote of the … Continue reading →
Items of recent pandemic news: Cryptic Covid lineages in NYC wastewater; a possible stall in Omicron’s nationwide decline; Novavax files for EUA and Moderna is approved; and authorized vaccines for the youngest kids, within a few weeks. Plus a frippery. … Continue reading →
Items of recent pandemic news: Novavax notches some wins; J&J’s vaccine is deprecated; vaccines for young kids will have to wait; the US government is stockpiling antibodies; the implications of Omicron’s (possibly) faster incubation; and more. Plus a frippery. Quotes … Continue reading →
Items of recent pandemic news: Simulating an aerosolized virus particle with 1.3 billion atoms via a supercomputer; the first monoclonal antibody treatment authorized for young children; Omicron may be breaking through natural immunity; and molnupiravir’s tepid affirmation. Plus a frippery. … Continue reading →
Items of recent pandemic news: How the sex of the fetus affects a mother’s immune response to the coronavirus; the prospect for vaccination in ages 5-11; boosters authorized in mix-and-match format; and more. Plus a frippery. Boosters for most everyone … 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 →
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 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 →
Three items of recent pandemic news: Human trials near for an inhalable antiviral; rumors of bad behavior by Google with an infection-tracking and notification app; and the WHO recommends against vaccinating children. Plus a news brief and a frippery. WHO … Continue reading →
Three items of pandemic news: Long Covid in children; an FDA panel confirms an excess of heart inflammation following mRNA vaccination; and how the American tendency to individualism over collectivism hamstrung our pandemic response. Plus news briefs and a frippery. … Continue reading →
