Thanks to some virtuoso high-profile performances from a few women early on, this claim took off fast: having a woman at the…
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Covid-19 Women Versus Men Leaders in the Pandemic: An Update and Dig Into the Latest DataRead more
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Science Communication Another Bit of Pandemic Fallout: The Weaponization of Absolute Risk StatisticsRead more
Back in the good old days, we only had to tear our hair out when people used relative risks without context, thereby…
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Covid-19 Covid Vaccine Results for the Under 5s in Trials, Rollout, & Off-Label UseRead more
There could be well over 20 million children under 5 Covid-vaxed globally – the vast majority in China, and nearly all with…
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History Early Ukrainian Women Scientists: Part 3 – From Birds to Math, Space, & Plants in SpaceRead more
In this final part, we meet the first of the scientists who are still living – and start to see the impact…
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History Early Ukrainian Women Scientists: Part 2 – From Mushrooms to Physics, a Programming Language, Plants, & BeesRead more
The 5 women in this second part bring us to people born in the 20th century. The 3-part series covers a small…
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post Early Ukrainian Women Scientists: Part 1 – From Fossils to the Planets and BackRead more
This 3-part series covers a small selection from the massive legacy of early Ukrainian women scientists’ science, initiative, and courage – 15…
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Covid-19 Did We Ever Find Out How Effective Sputnik V Vaccine Actually Is?Read more
Wartime sanctions have short-circuited Sputnik V’s future in most of the world. The US Treasury described RDIF, the state-controlled intermediary behind the…
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Bias Where Is the Line Between Being Critical & Contrarian? Thoughts On a PlagueRead more
In a post late last year, I used the phrase “contrarian Covid takes”. On Twitter, Lars Henning asked, “what exactly does it…
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Covid-19 The Evidence On 4th Doses of Covid Vaccines & the Thorny Question of Age ThresholdsRead more
When I last posted on boosters in January, there were at least 14 countries offering fourth vaccine doses. Almost all were only…
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Covid-19 The Race to Reduce Covid-19 Transmission: An Update on 67 Intranasal & 6 Oral VaccinesRead more
It’s a glaring example of a pair of problems that have plagued Covid vaccines: parochialism and failures of information management when science…
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Health 4 Ways This Tweet Shows How Public Health Messaging Can Go Off the RailsRead more
When I saw the tweet, it felt like watching pinball for misleading public health hype – ding! ding! ding! – hitting target…
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Covid-19 Tracking the Covid Vaccine Race in the Wild First 2 Years – A Process StoryRead more
By the time the pandemic was declared in March 2020, my first Covid vaccine post was online – a backgrounder and history…