When several European countries paused use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine in March 2021, the criticism from many commentators was swift, extreme…
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Covid-19 So What Was the Impact of Those Covid Vax Safety Pauses?Read more
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Covid-19 Intranasal & Co: A Very Big Month for Mucosal Covid VaccinesRead more
Authorization for another 2 new vaccines, a potentially critical international licensing deal, and a new phase 3 trial: This month saw a…
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Covid-19 Just How Many Covid Vaccines Are There? And Other Interesting NumbersRead more
It’s just over 2 and a half years since the genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 was released, kicking off the Covid vaccine race…
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Covid-19 And Then There Were 33…The Latest 11 Covid Vaccines to Reach the Phase 3 Results MilestoneRead more
There’s been a big leap in the number of Covid vaccines known to have phase 3 results since my last catch-up post…
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Covid-19 Next Generation Covid Vaccine Update: Intranasal & Other Mucosal VaxesRead more
Mucosal vaccines are aimed at the mucosal membranes—the wet linings starting inside our noses and mouths. They can be sprays, drops, or…
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Covid-19 Front-Runners in the Race for Variant-Proof and All-Coronavirus VaccinesRead more
SARS-CoV-2 – the coronavirus that causes Covid – is the third from its virus family to cause devastating pandemics or outbreaks in…
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Covid-19 Women Versus Men Leaders in the Pandemic: An Update and Dig Into the Latest DataRead more
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 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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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…