In this final part, we meet the first of the scientists who are still living – and start to see the impact…

The 5 women in this second part bring us to people born in the 20th century. The 3-part series covers a small…

This 3-part series covers a small selection from the massive legacy of early Ukrainian women scientists’ science, initiative, and courage – 15…

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…

In a post late last year, I used the phrase “contrarian Covid takes”. On Twitter, Lars Henning asked, “what exactly does it…

When I last posted on boosters in January, there were at least 14 countries offering fourth vaccine doses. Almost all were only…

It’s a glaring example of a pair of problems that have plagued Covid vaccines: parochialism and failures of information management when science…

When I saw the tweet, it felt like watching pinball for misleading public health hype – ding! ding! ding! – hitting target…

Note: This post is historical. In 2023, I modified my process – details here. By the time the pandemic was declared in…

Seventeen vaccines with at least one variant-adapted version sounds like a lot. But none are actually in use yet. And given all…

By the middle of last year, 16 Covid vaccines had passed the critical milestone of announcing results from a phase 3 trial…

We don’t know how many groups started out with the goal of creating a patent-free or non-profit Covid vaccine – or at…