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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Science Communication Another Bit of Pandemic Fallout: The Weaponization of Absolute Risk Statistics
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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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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…
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Covid-19 New Triumphs & Struggles for Non-Profit Covid Vaxes
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 Mark
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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Bias This “Waning Immunity” Argument Against the FDA’s Covid Vaccine Approval Is a Scientific Quagmire
I sure don’t envy the people under all that pressure at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. They’ve been at the brunt…
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Covid-19 A Worrying Drift Towards Exceptionalism In the Covid Vax For Kids Debate
I think we are drifting perilously close to exceptionalism in the debate about the Covid-19 vaccine for children and adolescents. The narrowed…