making sense of medicine and healthcare
The Pfizer vaccine was officially approved yesterday with the anticipation that the Moderna one will be approved next week. Not surprisingly with the federal government purchasing the vaccine, federal agencies…Continue Reading …
Priorities for vaccination with the currently-available vaccines The CDC reiterated its priority for vaccinating healthcare workers at high risk and care facility individuals first. Essential workers and those with conditions…Continue Reading …
The latest information on vaccine distribution A quote from an article on MedPage Today: The government has contracts for 100 million doses each of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, with…Continue Reading …
FAQ about testing, contagion, and the illness: Who should be tested? Anyone with exposure to someone with known COVID-19 or anyone with a respiratory illness. When should you be tested?…Continue Reading …
To summarize where we are now Since my last post four months ago there have been no major clinical break throughs until this week. The virus is spreading as was…Continue Reading …
(Sorry I couldn’t resist the pun “graphic”…) I wanted to show and explain a few graphs. I will also show some statistics and critique what they show and don’t show….Continue Reading …
(Sorry about missing last week’s post. I’ll try to get two out this week!) COVID parties I guess there is a new thing called a COVID party, where people (mostly…Continue Reading …
Scientific American online article – Inside the Coronavirus This is a superb interactive article showing what we know about this virus. It is staggering to me that we now know…Continue Reading …
Outbreaks in Colorado The Boulder County outbreak reported last week has now reached 100+ positive cases. This was basically a “frat party” congregation of individuals. Again, interestingly there was not…Continue Reading …
I have had a number of people ask about the influenza vaccine in light of the current COVID-19 epidemic and thought a post about the whole influenza vaccine process would…Continue Reading …
