Items of recent pandemic news: Moderna applies to the FDA for full licensure; Minnesota and the Twin Cities end mask mandates; and cautious optimism that the pandemic is ending in the US. Plus news briefs and a brace of fripperies. … Continue reading →
Four items of recent pandemic news: Pfizer applies for full FDA approval; Moderna’s booster testing; the CDC’s optimistic report; and what it means that the US is open to waiving vaccine patent rights. Plus news briefs and a frippery. Waiving … Continue reading →
Three items of pandemic news you may have missed recently: Watching the virus evolve variants in a single human; a damning report on Emergent’s vaccine manufacturing plant; and the dimming prospects for herd immunity. Plus news briefs and a frippery. … Continue reading →
Herewith three items of pandemic news you may have missed recently: Covid-19 can damage the brain without infecting it; what’s up with the blood clots; and the FDA shuts down Emergent’s Baltimore operation. Plus news briefs and a frippery. FDA … Continue reading →
Three items of pandemic news you may have missed recently: Post-vaccination breakthrough infections are less than 0.008%; researchers estimate how much virus an infection produces; and an advisory committee punts on J&J. Plus news briefs and a frippery. Advisory committee … Continue reading →
Three items of pandemic news you may have missed recently: A study on transmission from the vaccinated; the South African variant can evade Pfizer; and the US government suggests pausing J&J vaccination. Plus news briefs and a frippery. FDA and … Continue reading →
Herewith three items of pandemic news you may have missed recently: Reinfection is more likely after age 65; the EU gives AstraZeneca’s vaccine a less than resounding go-ahead; and long Covid in children. Plus news briefs and a frippery. Long … Continue reading →
Herewith three items of pandemic news you may have missed recently: One instance in Oregon of a scary variant; quantifying the variants’ immune escape; and the new CDC guidelines. Plus news briefs and a frippery. A year Before we dive … Continue reading →
Herewith three items of pandemic news you may have missed recently: Youyang Gu’s model of the path to herd immunity; hesitancy from several directions about Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine; and the latest on pandemic passports. Plus news briefs and a … Continue reading →
Would the course of Covid-19 in this country have been different if Medicare had covered routine dental exams and cleanings? Possibly. But the studies have not been done that could tell us with confidence, and they probably won’t be. Determining … Continue reading →
Herewith three items of pandemic news you may have missed recently: A particular risk of diabetes with Covid-19; worries of vaccine escape by the South African variant; and the many ideas floated for bolstering vaccine supply. Plus a frippery. Ways … Continue reading →
I spent about 50 years doing software development, and one constant was that management always reported that projects were going to be finished in less than half the time than they were actually going to take, even if all went … Continue reading →
