October 20, 2020 Clinical Research Purposefully infecting vaccine-study volunteers with coronavirus to speed up the development and approval process is unethical and fraught with the law of unintended consequences.
October 5, 2020 Molecular Medicine Logistics of distributing mRNA vaccines (if approved) will be problematic. Excellent article in @TheAtlantic explains why.
October 4, 2020 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #759, October 4, 2020: “Cold, it’s so cold!”
September 27, 2020 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #758, September 27, 2020: Are the Covid-19 vaccine trials designed to succeed from the start?
September 25, 2020 Epidemiology It will happen when it does; Predicting when the vaccine will be approved and ready for use is a mug’s game.
September 9, 2020 Clinical Research Vaccine trial suspension is an expected response after reports of a single adverse event. It shows that proper protocols are being followed to determine if it is related to the vaccine. Phase 3 trials are designed to determine how larger and more diverse population groups respond.
February 5, 2020 Clinical Research HIV vaccine hopes should not be “dashed” by trial failure. Results contribute to understanding and formulating new approaches. We learn from our mistakes and failures in order to attain our goals.
November 11, 2019 General information Ottawa school has greatest philosophical vaccine exemption rate. The California policy change to eliminate it reversed this outcome in their schools.
March 20, 2019 Health Policy Why is Health Canada contributing to the legitimacy of homeopathic “vaccines” (nosodes) by providing a license, when they lack any clinical efficacy?
February 13, 2019 Prevention and Screening The sweet irony of an Ohio teen defying his antivax mom and deciding, after using reason and critical thinking, to get vaccinated stating that his “parents are kind of stupid and don’t believe in vaccines”