What Happens when The Pandemic is Over?
I honestly can’t believe I even wrote that title, because truthfully the optimism that is required to put together that sequence of words in that order is something I could not have conceived of even a...
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Did SARS-CoV-2 cause the decline of influenza through viral interference? It...
The gist: Some have taken note of the disappearance of influenza with this pandemic, and argued that this is because of viral interference from SARS-CoV-2: in essence, people are becoming infected with...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Vaccines Probably Prevent PASC (long COVID-19)
The gist: While we do need well-designed prospective studies that look explicitly at whether or not vaccines prevent long COVID, and those studies are underway, we know that you need to get infected...
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Myocarditis and COVID-19 mRNA vaccines
The gist: Presently and primarily in younger males with the second dose, there appears to be a small increase in the risk of myocarditis with mRNA vaccination. This is definitely not a trivial matter...
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COVID-19 Vaccine-Acquired vs. Disease-Acquired Immunity: Which is Better?
The gist: Many seem to hold to the incorrect idea that immunity acquired through infection is superior to immunity acquired by vaccination but multiple examples show this isn’t true: recovery from...
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Addressing Dr. Daniel Stock’s Claims
A surprisingly large number of people have sent me a video that is inundated with disinformation about COVID-19 and its reach seems considerable so I have deemed it significant enough to address. In...
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Antibody-Dependent Enhancement and COVID-19: Still No Evidence
Global prevalence of the Kappa variant via outbreak.info Global prevalence of the Delta variant via outbreak.info. I have written at length about the prospect of antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE)...
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COVID-19 Vaccines Are NOT Gene Therapy
Key concepts for gene therapy. Gene therapy aims to (a) replace the function of a defective gene with a functional one, (b) suppress a pathologic genetic variant, or (c) repair a defective gene...
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Addressing Dr. Christina Parks’s Claims
There is presently a viral video circulating featuring the testimony of Dr. Christina Parks regarding COVID-19 vaccines and mandating them. In this video, she makes a number of blatantly false claims...
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True Facts about Antibodies
Rich R. Clinical immunology. 5th ed. Elsevier; 2019 Figure 4.2 I recently made a post in one of my science Facebook groups trying to explain some of the basics about antibodies to people and was asked...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Vaccine passport systems should largely ignore recovery from COVID-19
Over the last few weeks, people have been asking me for my opinions regarding vaccine passports and some have been outraged by the fact that many such systems do not consider infection-acquired...
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Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine for Children Aged 5-11: VRBPAC Meeting Summary and...
Hi, all! Been a little while. Sorry about that. I had some really critical projects to tend to that couldn’t wait and now I have a bunch of backlogged posts that are unfinished but I think will be of...
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Tromethamine in the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine has nothing to do with...
In my last post, I explained that the Pfizer vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 has been slightly modified with respect to an inactive ingredient: the buffer. Buffers are substances that resist changes...
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The Omicron Variant: a summary of what we know so far (with a focus on what...
A labeled Omicron spike protein showing all the different amino acid changes in the spike protein. Changes with documented phenotypic effects from literature are colored light orange or cyan for...
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Self-Proclaimed inventor of mRNA vaccines, Robert Malone, misrepresents an...
The gist: Robert Malone is among hundreds of scientists who contributed to the effort to make mRNA vaccines possible, having done some important early experiments that helped to prove the concept....
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mRNA vaccines… still don’t reverse transcribe and integrate into your genome
The gist: Not too long ago, there was a paper published which was seized upon by anti-vaccine circles purporting to show that there is production of DNA encoding the spike protein from the mRNA...
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The “leaked” Pfizer documents are actually really boring
This post does not have a summary because I felt that I could not make this any shorter without sacrificing key points. I have done my best to keep this post as brief as possible. I made a twitter...
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More Pfizer Documents and More Misinterpretations
The gist: The FDA has been ordered to comply with a FOIA request regarding the documents it used to make the judgments to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. For background on what that means, I...
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Updated COVID-19 Boosters FAQ
For questions specific to your situation, you should ask the healthcare professional who cares for you. CDC Nowcast showing current variants circulating in the US and the proportion of cases they...
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Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV): A pathogen that will hopefully soon be...
If you follow anyone in vaccine/medicine/immunology/infectious disease world, you may have heard some really exciting news that Pfizer has completed study of a candidate RSV (respiratory syncytial...
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