NOTE: A lot has happened in the couple of weeks since I last updated this post. New monthly roundup coming soon! We’re…
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Covid-19 The First Phase 3 Safety Picture & the Rise of Emergency Use: Covid-19 Vaccine Race, Month 10Read more
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Covid-19 Meet the Women Leading Vanguard Covid-19 Vaccine Trials: A Sign of Progress & Reminder of What’s At RiskRead more
Good news and inspirational women are coming in this post, I promise! But first, there’s a bunch of grim reading. Back in…
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Covid-19 Phase 3 Results in Sight for Some, While One Vaccine is Put on Hold: Covid-19 Vaccine Race, Month 9Read more
We’re now into the ninth month since sequencing of the genome of SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. And this is the…
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Covid-19 The FDA’s Epic Statistical Fail & Worse: Has Informed Consent Been Made Next To Impossible?Read more
Enthusiasm for an experimental intervention often gets the better of doctors’ critical thinking. I think that happened with the advocates for Covid-19…
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Covid-19 Vaccine Contrasts & Massive Volunteer Mobilization: Covid-19 Vaccine Race, Month 8Read more
We’re now into the eighth month since sequencing of the genome of SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. And this is the…
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Covid-19 The Clinical Trial Results Stampede Begins: Covid-19 Vaccine Race, Month 7Read more
We’re now into the seventh month since sequencing of the genome of SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. This is the second…
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Covid-19 Study Publications Must Be Up-To-Date in Covid Time & That New Hydroxychloroquine StudyRead more
When I woke up yesterday morning, I saw that hydroxychloroquine had become a trending topic on Twitter again overnight. And – good…
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Covid-19 Covid-19 Vaccine Race, Month 6: First Emergency Use & Phase 3 TrialsRead more
We’re now into the sixth month since the genome of the new coronavirus was sequenced. Twelve to 18 months is the soonest…
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Covid-19 Reasons to Worry Less About the Explosion of PreprintsRead more
It looks as though preprints are here to stay in biomedicine, and I think that’s great. But I’ve been hearing variants of…
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Covid-19 The Limits of Those Reviews of Masks For All and What We Do KnowRead more
Have you noticed that you see so many pictures of people wearing face masks during the 1918-20 influenza pandemic, but you don’t…
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Covid-19 First in Human: Covid-19 Vaccines & Tales of Phase 1 Clinical Trials PastRead more
The people who sign up for the first-in-human trials of Covid-19 vaccines are about to do our societies an extraordinary service. Most…