Allergies to vaccines for COVID-19
Recently, the Pfizer© vaccine for COVID-19 has come under scrutiny for components in their vaccine which could lead to severe reactions by recipients of the vaccine and therefore could lead to anaphylaxis. Allergies to these components, especially polyethylene glycol...
Worrying about vaccines against COVID-19
As more and more news come out about vaccines against COVID-19, people are starting to have concern and worry. Naturally, they are asking a lot of questions about receiving the vaccine and when. Most of the news has centered around two vaccines that have already been...
What to keep open and what to close during 2nd wave of pandemic
After most of the United States was enjoying somewhat of a break in COVID-19 surges and closures in the latter part of the summer, COVID-19, which still roams freely, has led into a second resurgence in almost every state in the latter fall and is leading to potential...
Herd immunity and the White House
The White House has been following a contestable strategy related to controlling the coronavirus called the Great Barrington Declaration. In this declaration created by Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta, and Martin Kulldorff, who are all academics, they advocate for...
Remdesivir: Useful or not for COVID-19
Recently, the FDA deemed Remdesivir as a treatment for COVID-19, the first treatment approved as such. Back on May 1, they had granted EUA, emergency use authorization, of Remdesivir for COVID-19 and many hospitals made use of it, especially given that there was very...
COVID-19 in NYC: October hot spots
In the last several weeks, though New Yorkers have been enjoying things slowly reopening and having a little more freedom to go out and about and enjoy outdoor dining with indoor dining around the corner and gyms reopened, cases slowly started rising again. At...
COVID-19 and a 2nd wave: questions and implications
New York City had been the an epicenter of the pandemic in the United States in the spring from March to May until cases and hospitalizations started dipping. Now NYC is now longer an epicenter after having gone through this first wave while many other parts of the...
COVID testing: different types of tests
COVID-19 testing is complex with different types and different ways of being tested put in place. Even then, the testing has also changed over time to become more refined and/or faster all at the same time. Of course, this may be confusing to the general public about...
COVID-19: can NYC move forward now
COVID-19 or the Sars-2-COVID is still amongst us today. Research should not slow down. We can continue to learn from this even if things start to dampen today. If today in the New York Times, August 17, there is a report that herd immunity may have been achieved...
Editorial highlights flaws in reporting COVID-19 research
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/editorial-highlights-flaws-in-reporting-covid-19-research?platform=hootsuite