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 And Then There Were 33…The Latest 11 Covid Vaccines to Reach the Phase 3 Results Milestone
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Covid-19 Next Generation Covid Vaccine Update: Intranasal & Other Mucosal Vaxes
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 Vaccines
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 Data
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 Use
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?
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 Plague
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 Thresholds
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 Vaccines
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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Covid-19 Tracking the Covid Vaccine Race in the Wild First 2 Years – A Process Story
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 Vaccines
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 Milestone
By the middle of last year, 16 Covid vaccines had passed the critical milestone of announcing results from a phase 3 trial…