COVID

We have learned a lot about the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the four years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Because the virus replicates its RNA and mutates in every infection, its spike proteins keep changing.

Two senior FDA officials, including Dr.

Texas’ political leaders recently have made some inconceivably irresponsible policy decisions.

The Wall Street Journal published a news article on January 5, “Why It Feels Like Everyone You Know Is Getting COVID-19,” which contained several worrisome observations.

Join host Cameron English, Dr. Chuck Dinerstein and Dr. Barbara Billauer as they break down these stories on Episode 58 of the Science Dispatch podcast:

The administration of COVID-19 vaccines in pregnancy raises two kinds of concerns that apply to all vaccines.  The first is the recognition that because the vaccines will be administered mainly to a healthy population, their safety must be we

It is bad enough when unqualified pundits offer dumb opinions about science, but bad legislation can cause real damage.

I described two approaches: (1) combining surface proteins from different coronaviruses on a scaffold, and (2)  focusing on conserved regions of the virus that tend not to mutate.

Join host Cameron English, Dr. Chuck Dinerstein and ACSH contributor Katie Suleta as they break down these stories on Episode 55 of the Science Dispatch podcast:      

“A complex system is made up of very large numbers of interacting components, asymmetrically organized. Some such systems operate somewhere between order and disorder—“on the edge of chaos,” ….