Herd immunity is a fantasy
Despite what science or the failed coronavirus strategy in Sweden tell us, people continue to entertain herd immunity as a possible strategy for ending the Covid-19 pandemic. During ABC’s town hall meeting with voters on Tuesday, President Donald Trump said the coronavirus would “go …
Why We Can’t Rely On Natural Immunity To Protect Us From Covid-19
There is a question that has crossed all our minds at some point, yet has no satisfactory answer: If I’m infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, how long am I immune? A more technical way of asking the same question …
Paused AstraZeneca Trials Emphasize Need For Vaccine Transparency
Astrazeneca, and all the other companies under Food and Drug Administration purview, are developing vaccines for COVID-19. In the midst of current trials across the globe, they paused operation when a participant in the United Kingdom developed symptoms of a spinal inflammatory …
The University Of Illinois’s COVID-19 Control Shows That Mass Testing Is The Answer
The University of Illinois implemented an aggressive testing campaign to reign in the spread of COVID-19. The operation involves testing the entire student body and faculty twice per week—around fifteen thousand tests each day. Students tested positive are alerted and quarantined while …
A Defense of Self-Testing and Supported Self-Isolation
In a recent CNN article, I proposed a new way of containing COVID-19. The strategy would be a self test and supported self isolation approach, but some are skeptical. Rapid antigen testing at home for COVID-19 on a daily basis increases the …
The Case For Safer Emergency Use Authorizations
In emergency situations such as Covid-19, emergency use authorizations (EUA) are vital and necessary. There needs to be effective treatments and vaccines available to stop the spread of this virus. The failures like hydroxychloroquine show that the EUA process must be robust …
Herd Immunity: A Reckless and Ineffective Strategy
A White House medical adviser is promoting a “herd immunity” strategy to battle Covid-19. This would involve allowing Sars-CoV-2 to infect a majority of the population under a “benign neglect” strategy as the government would do little to stop it. This strategy would build …
How we can contain Covid-19 without a vaccine
While the world is waiting for a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine, there is a strategy that can potentially bring an end to the pandemic in the United States without the development of pharmaceutical drugs. The strategy, which is cost-effective and compatible …
Containing Covid—American Style
In the span of last weekend alone, more than 80,000 new cases of Covid-19 were reported across the United States. Worse, the disease claims the lives of about 1,000 Americans daily. Meanwhile in China, the country where it all began, the number of cases …
New CDC Guidelines Decrease Testing For Those Who Need It Most
The Center for Disease Control updated its Covid-19 testing guidelines to exclude those exposed to the virus who are asymptomatic. This is a sudden change of direction as the previous rendition encouraged everyone who came in contact with an infected person to seek testing. …
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