When I saw the tweet, it felt like watching pinball for misleading public health hype – ding! ding! ding! – hitting target…
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Health 4 Ways This Tweet Shows How Public Health Messaging Can Go Off the RailsRead more
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Covid-19 Tracking the Covid Vaccine Race in the Wild First 2 Years – A Process StoryRead more
Note: This post is historical. In 2023, I modified my process – details here. By the time the pandemic was declared in…
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Covid-19 Adapting for Variants: Early Results or Trials Underway for 38 Versions of 17 Covid VaccinesRead more
Seventeen vaccines with at least one variant-adapted version sounds like a lot. But none are actually in use yet. And given all…
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Covid-19 The Latest 5 Covid Vaccines to Pass the Phase 3 Results MilestoneRead more
By the middle of last year, 16 Covid vaccines had passed the critical milestone of announcing results from a phase 3 trial…
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Covid-19 New Triumphs & Struggles for Non-Profit Covid VaxesRead more
We don’t know how many groups started out with the goal of creating a patent-free or non-profit Covid vaccine – or at…
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Covid-19 Boosters and Mixed Schedules: Covid Vaccines at the 2-Year MarkRead more
We’ve just passed the second anniversary of the release of the SARS-CoV-2 genome sequence, which was the starting gun for the Covid…
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Listicles 5 Things We Learned About Journal Peer Review in 2021Read more
This post is part of a series that I started in 2019, recapping the scientific results on peer review to that point…
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Bias Peeling Back the Layers of “Medical Conservativism”Read more
I don’t know when describing yourself as a “medical conservative” became a thing. I only noticed it recently, persistently popping up among…
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Reproducibility The Metascience Movement Needs to be More Self-CriticalRead more
Metascience – the study of science and its improvement – isn’t simply a field of science. There’s a movement, too. What’s more…
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History The First Century of Women in Vaccine Science: 1970s-1990s (Part 3)Read more
This is the last post in a series highlighting outstanding women in vaccine science or immunology related to vaccine development in the…
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History The First Century of Women in Vaccine Science: 1940s-1960s (Part 2)Read more
This is the second post in a series highlighting outstanding women in vaccine science or immunology related to vaccine development in the…
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History The First Century of Women in Vaccine Science: 1900-1930s (Part 1)Read more
Women scientists have had pivotal and leading roles in developing Covid vaccines and been celebrated for it – from Katalin Karikó’s role…