January 13, 2021 Clinical Research The Lancet Long-COVID study reports the significant impact the disease has wrought six months after hospitalization. Please let’s help each other prevent these outcomes.
December 29, 2020 Clinical Research What are some of the concerns about the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 with respect to transmission, number of fatalities, and its impact on children?
December 4, 2020 Clinical Research Coronavirus vaccine for children will not receive approval for use until clinical trials determine safety, efficacy, and the appropriate dosing. Information should start to become available in the first half of 2021 as trials get underway.
November 16, 2020 Allergy/Immunology Study shows ten percent of people, mostly men, with severe COVID-19, develop an autoimmune response that attacks interferons (part of the immune system) thereby reducing the host’s ability to defend against the virus.
November 10, 2020 Clinical Research Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine news is a press release not a study. No raw data to review, limited transparency, basic questions unanswered, 94 cases, and an overreaction focusing on the claim of 90% efficacy. Validated evidence required to justify the hype.
November 5, 2020 Clinical Research Another (small) study confirms that face masks do not reduce oxygen saturation during vigorous exercise for healthy individuals. You can get yourself an inexpensive pulse oximeter and prove it to yourself.
November 3, 2020 Clinical Research The vaccine development process is still beholden to clinical trial realities and barriers that are beyond our control. Predicting when we will have a Covid-19 vaccine is a mug’s game. Could be tomorrow, could be next year.
October 30, 2020 Allergy/Immunology Study reports that people who had mild to moderate #COVID-19 have protective stable antibody levels five months after their infection. This finding and further studies to follow can help with public policy and vaccine development programs.
October 29, 2020 Allergy/Immunology Vulnerable populations to be the focus in a new Canadian COVID-19 antibody study.
October 28, 2020 Clinical Research Unpublished non-peer-reviewed short-term study on possible COVID-19-induced cognitive decline used self-reported unverified data with no baseline controls or knowledge of the patients cognitive status prior to infection.
