Immunology

Paper Posits That Daily Solar Radiation Is A Key Factor In Epidemics

Viral respiratory epidemics like the flu spike cyclically during autumn and winter- but only in the temperate regions of the globe's northern and southern hemispheres. In the equatorial belt, they happen all year round, at lower levels. A new numerica ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2020 - 11:21am

Like Influenza, SARS-CoV-2 Could Evolve Resistance To COVID-19 Vaccines

With the third coronavirus pandemic of the last 17 years, and this one worse than ever, there is a great deal of talk about a vaccine. Pfizer set off a lot of excitement with its preliminary results, which exceeded the 50 percent scientists expected. And t ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 9 2020 - 7:39pm

Vaccination Opponents Drive An Epidemic Of COVID-19 Misinformation

There is a saying that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. So, it should come as no surprise that vaccine skeptics worldwide are sounding the alarm about the flu shot as a real danger in the COVID-19 pandemic. Confused? Well, it tu ...

Article - W. Glen Pyle - Nov 23 2020 - 1:03pm

R0 And Why We'll Need 70 Percent Vaccination To Stop COVID-19

It has been clear for a while that, at least in the U.S., the only way out of the coronavirus pandemic will be through vaccination. The rapid deployment of coronavirus vaccines is underway, but how many people need to be vaccinated in order to control thi ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 5 2021 - 10:57am

The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic Had Up To Four Waves- The Last Was 18 Months After The Third

Do you think food is medicine? While Whole Foods imagery touted that in 2019, the coronavirus pandemic that began in Wuhan later that year punctured efforts to convince the public that health is a moral or economic issue- you owe it to your kids to buy ove ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 24 2021 - 3:16pm

COVID-19 Variant B.1.1.7 Statistics Suggest Higher Mortality

COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 variant, B.1.1.7 was first discovered in Kent last year and statistics suggest it is 30 and 100 percent more deadly than previous strains. This is epidemiology, so an exploratory finding using correlation, that is why the rang ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2021 - 11:13am

How MRNA Vaccines Work – And Why You Need A Second Dose

Tens of millions of people across the U.S. have received a coronavirus vaccine. So far, the majority of doses have been either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine, both of which use mRNA to generate an immune response. These gene-based vaccines have been in the ...

Article - The Conversation - Mar 16 2021 - 5:00pm

Neural Thrombosis, The Covid Vaccine, And Politicians Who Kill

Last Monday at 10.30AM I eagerly queued up at the International Red Cross site of Padova, the town where I live and work, to receive a first vaccination shot against Covid-19. I duly received my dose and went back home with some relief. Little did I know t ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 17 2021 - 12:16pm

CDC: Fomites Are Not The COVID-19 Concern So We Can Stop With 'Hygiene Theater' Deep Cleaning

The CDC has bad news for Purell. “It is possible for people to be infected through contact with contaminated surfaces or objects (fomites), but the risk is generally considered to be low,” they write in their latest guidance.  ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 5 2021 - 2:55pm

The Thorny Problem Of COVID-19 Vaccines And Spike Proteins

Almost since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a piece of the SARS-CoV2 virus called the “spike protein” has drawn interest from researchers and healthcare professionals. New research by Yuyang Lei and colleagues published in the journal Circulation ...

Article - W. Glen Pyle - May 13 2021 - 10:54am