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 Evidence On 4th Doses of Covid Vaccines & the Thorny Question of Age Thresholds
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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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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…
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Covid-19 A Big Hit, A Big Miss, & Mixed Vaccine Schedules: The 18-Month Mark
Remember when we were told the earliest we could possibly hope for a vaccine was 12 to 18 months? Here we are…
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Covid-19 New Vaccine Hopes, Adverse Reactions, & a Developer Clashing With Regulators: A Month of Highs & Lows
We’ve well and truly reached cherry-picking season on Covid vaccine data! It’s definitely easier to fall into the trap of claims based…
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Bias The Pioneering Crossover Trials for Covid Vaccines and What We’ll Find Out
As results for the big phase 3 trials for the BNT-Pfizer and Moderna were looming, a debate ramped up: when would the…
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Covid-19 Community Impact Data, 3 New Covid Vaccines, and Trials in Children: A Month of Dilemmas and Good News
It’s been another drama-filled, and data-packed, hectic few weeks in the Covid vaccines landscape. But the visual theme of this roundup post…