Immunology

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

6-Foot Rule Does Little To Prevent COVID-19 Exposure

There were a lot of rules introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic that originated during late 2019 in Wuhan, China. Some were pretty Draconian. China welded the homes of people shut and destroyed 16,000 coronavirus samples at the world's largest coron ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 26 2021 - 1:04pm

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

Evidence For The Wuhan Lab COVID-19 Hypothesis Isn't Going To Be Waved Away

A recent report by the World Health Organisation on the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and resulting disease COVID-19 glossed over China- the country is not even mentioned until page 15- but the rest of the world is not so easily bullied. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 25 2021 - 3:55pm

Posturing On Vaccine Hesitancy Is A Mistake

If you are still being paid and your job is so secure you can go on strike to demand that your employer not ask you to come into the office, you might think getting a vaccine is not only no big deal, but is a moral mandate more important than any other. Yo ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 26 2021 - 2:18pm

Superforecasting: What Government Epidemiologists Can Do Better In The Next Pandemic

Experts got it catastrophically wrong, according to Dominic Cummings, UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser. Cummings has argued that the UK government’s official scientific advice in March 2020 hugely misunderstood how the pandemic would ...

Article - The Conversation - May 31 2021 - 12:21pm

Germinal Centers Show COVID-19 Vaccines Have Lasting Protection

The first two COVID-19 vaccines authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) utilized mRNA technology previously unused in FDA-approved vaccines. One of its chief proponents bounced from research job to research job for low pay because government- ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2021 - 9:38am

In Clinical Trial, K.Vita Betashot Treatment For Epilepsy Well Tolerated And Reduced Seizures

A just completed clinical trial of K.Vita (Betashot), a dietary treatment for children and adults with severe forms of epilepsy, found it was well tolerated and reduced seizures. The product was developed to offset the risks of the ketogenic diet, which mi ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 23 2021 - 10:35am