More Publication By Press Release, This Time From Sinovac On A Covid Vaccine
Spreading almost as fast as Covid-19 itself are “publications by press release”. The latest comes from Sinovac, the same company that previously withheld comment on animal studies of its candidate Covid vaccine until the supporting data was available for review. Not so this …
Are Children Less Easily Infected By SARS-CoV-2? Maybe Yes And Maybe No
A recently published report in Nature Medicine by a group of British epidemiologists concludes that children are half as likely to be infected by SARS-CoV-2 as adults. The conclusion is based primarily on publicly available data from Wuhan and from five other countries including …
Traveling By Air In The Time Of Covid
Doubtless, many of you miss air travel for families, business or pleasure. I certainly do. Yet in this time of Covid, short of a hospital or nursing home, an airplane is a most dangerous place. When you’re in an enclosed space, there …
A New CDC Report Shows Covid Disproportionately Affects Those With Underlying Disease And Disadvantaged Minorities
Covid-19 discriminates against those who it sickens and kills. The disease discriminates both by ethnicity and by pre-existing disease. The two are likely to be synonymous given what we know about the social determinants of health. A newly released report by the …
Dexamethasone Reduces Mortality In Seriously Ill Covid-19 Patients—And So Do Other Treatments
Each day doctors are battling to save lives with the limited resources they have. They hope, as do we, that medical science will soon lend them a strong helping hand. A group of doctors announced today they had completed a controlled study …
The Role Of Blood Type In Covid-19 Infection And Respiratory Failure
Does having a certain blood type put you at higher risk of developing a severe case of Covid-19? A recent report doesn’t have all the answers, but it does offer some clues. The report, which analyzes the data of almost 2,000 patients hospitalized for …
Human COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Are Unnecessary, Uninformative, and Unethical
I was recently stunned to learn of the serious consideration being given to deliberately infecting human volunteers with the SARS-CoV-2 virus in order to assess the effectiveness of potential COVID-19 vaccines. My first reaction was that the advocates of such “human challenge studies” had …
A Warning From Sweden
Sweden now has among the highest per capita death rates from Covid-19 in the world. Why? The answer is simple. Sweden was lax in its implementation of protective measures in the face of the outbreak, refusing to implement broad stay at home …
Two Weeks And Ten Million Covid Tests In Wuhan
Over the last two weeks of May, all residents over the age of 5 in Wuhan, China were tested for the presence of active SARS-CoV-2 virus replication. The tests identified 300 people with active infection. None of those tested show any signs …
Covid In Kids: A Reason To Be Wary Of Covid Vaccines
More than a dozen Covid vaccines are in development, with many of them already being tested in humans and many more to begin human trials soon. But what do we actually know about these potential vaccines and why might we be wary …
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