Two items of recent pandemic news: Billions to develop antivirals that can be taken by mouth; and a hard fail in a vaccine Phase III trial. Plus news briefs and a frippery. CureVac falls flat You may have heard by … Continue reading →
Two items of recent pandemic news: Studies point to long-lasting, possibly lifelong immunity from natural infection; and rapid developments in the highly political question of where SARS-CoV-2 came from. Plus news briefs and a pair of fripperies. Origin, again It … Continue reading →
Herewith three items of pandemic news you may have missed recently: A caution for those scheduling mammograms around the time of vaccination; sterilizing immunity from vaccines; and peptides for prevention and treatment. Plus news briefs and a frippery. Peptides Dr. … Continue reading →
Herewith three items of pandemic news you may have missed recently: A promising antiviral; a rare blood disorder perhaps related to vaccination; and the prospects for children getting vaccinated. Plus news briefs and a frippery. When will kids get vaccinated? … Continue reading →
Herewith three items of pandemic news you may have missed recently: Llama antibodies redux; two new viral variants out of Ohio; and the function of that second shot of vaccine. Plus news briefs and a frippery. What the second shot … Continue reading →
Herewith three items of pandemic news you may have missed recently: Infected gorillas; inhalable therapies and prophylactics; and the greater difficulty of testing new vaccine candidates once some have been authorized. Plus the accustomed frippery. After authorized vaccines, testing later … Continue reading →
Some pandemic news you may have missed recently: How the upcoming time of vaccine purgatory will go down; two vaccines that hit a snag; and an antiviral compound that blocks SARS-CoV-2 transmission in ferrets. Plus a frippery. An antiviral that … Continue reading →
Herewith three items of pandemic news you may have missed recently: troubling details on Long Covid; news from the treatment front; and Minnesota’s Covid notification app. Plus the accustomed frippery. Minnesota’s Covid notification app Yesterday I downloaded and installed COVIDaware … Continue reading →
Herewith three items of pandemic news you may have missed recently: mental health associations with Covid-19; an anti-depressant possibly protective against worsening disease; and using testing to shorten the time of quarantine. Plus the usual frippery. OCD drug fluvoxamine may … Continue reading →
If you haven’t seen the movie Fight Club, you probably still know the first rule of Fight Club: don’t tell anyone about Fight Club. Well, Covid-19 (or in my case cancer) Fight Club turns this rule on its head: tell … Continue reading →
By now you’ve heard that remdesivir has been shown to reduce the duration of Covid-19 illness in some patients, and that the White House’s Dr. Deborah Birx has been tasked with helping to coordinate its distribution to where it is … Continue reading →
I want to share with you two reflective pieces about our mental (or spiritual?) state during lockdown, and one resource that sparks my hope for humanity actually rising to the challenge of this pandemic. The two essays are from The … Continue reading →
Have you been worried about being intubated and put on a ventilator if you need to go to the hospital with COVID-19? I know I have. Suddenly it’s looking like the chances of that happening are declining precipitously — and … Continue reading →
