Immunology

COVID-19: This Form Of Coronavirus Can Be Eradicated, But Is It Worth It?

We have shown diseases can be eliminated, like polio and smallpox, but can you eliminate something like COVID-19? Coronavirus was only recognized as distinct from the common cold in the 1960s so it's impossible to know what impact it had throughout hi ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 13 2021 - 10:48am

Extreme Pandemics Like COVID-19 Aren't Rare, We Roll The Dice Each Year

COVID-19 is certainly worse than the SARS and MERS pandemics that occurred a few years prior, and the reasons why SARS-CoV-2 is worse than those others is open for debate, but one thing is not; pandemics, even extreme ones, are not as rare as many believe. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 2 2021 - 6:01am

Activist Reasons To Ban Pesticides Are Eerily Like Anti-Vax Claims

Imagine I mention that a small group of people not only distrust science and technology despite thorough testing by government scientists, they don’t trust it because it was tested by the government. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 17 2021 - 6:14pm

Does Nicotine Prevent COVID Transmission? France Might Begin Clinical Trials

As we are hopefully exiting the third coronavirus pandemic of the last 17 years, it is time to consider that it might become an annual event, like the flu. Since it mutates, there could also be an annual vaccine, but if flu is any indication half of people ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 20 2021 - 11:30am

COVID-19: Does Natural Infection Or Vaccination Lead To More Protective Antibodies?

Coronavirus has been with us for thousands of years and has mutated accordingly. Since it is in the same family as the common cold it was only recognized as distinct a few decades ago, and in the past severe cases were likely just treated as a flu. But aft ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 8 2021 - 9:51am

ACE2: New Chewing Gum Reduces Coronavirus Viral Load In Saliva

A recent study finds that chewing gum laced with a plant-grown protein named ACE2 serves as a “trap” for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, reducing viral load in saliva and potentially tamping down transmission. Vaccinations for COVID-19 have begun to stamp out the p ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2021 - 1:39pm

What Californians Of 2015 Share With 1991 Religious Fundamentalists

In this century, vaccine denial is primarily located in progressive hotbeds of states like California, rooted in distrust of science. It's an embarrassment for Democrats, who pride themselves on being more scientific than Republicans, to see that righ ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 3 2022 - 2:25pm

Flu Pandemics Will Still Happen, And Annual Vaccines Build Stronger Immunity In Kids

This is the third coronavirus pandemic of this century, after SARS and MERS, and due to that many forget that influenza is a chronic killer, 40-60,000 deaths in America alone each year. To mitigate those effects, there is a seasonal flu vaccine. Each year ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2022 - 10:45am

New HIV Variant Breaks Out In The Netherlands

The ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and new mutations in viral genetic sequences have made "variant" part of the cultural lexicon, because they can have significant impacts on the virus’s transmissibility and the damage it causes.  Researchers have l ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2022 - 11:00am

COVID-19 Vaccines May Be Worse At Stopping New Variants, But They’re Still Lowering The Risk

The rise of the omicron variant has caused havoc around the world, just as the emergence of the delta and alpha variants did before. A pattern has emerged, with the world scrambling to respond to a new form of the coronavirus every six or so months. How c ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 8 2022 - 10:08am