I went for my booster shot. About 3 weeks before I am departing for my trip to Israel. That way I should have the prime immunity against COVID, as I travel through the airport and am stuck on an airplane for 10 or 11 hours.
Tag Archives: Moderna
mRNA is on the way…
So, yesterday I talked about how we need to shrink the unknown unknowns – and the known unknowns as much as possible. And, that was in the context of how we’ve learned more and more about SARS-CoV-2 and living with the pandemic.
A Who’s Who of the Vaccines
What do we know about the vaccines?
As long as we are discussing vaccines from the Western World (in other words NOT the Sputnik or the Sinopharm), then we can make some general statements.
Moderna
Hmm. This pandemic has afforded us a brand new method of immunizing our populations, making the disease difficult to take hold. Consider that in 2020, we were being overrun with COVID-19. And, then, POOF! Vaccines appeared on the horizon.
Take a step back, please…
Decades of Progress- recognized overnight
So many of the media are declaring how quickly we managed to develop vaccines for the scourge of the 21st Century, the COVID-19 pandemic.
Which Vaccine?
This is the fifth (and, for now, final) post in the third set of miniseries about COVID-19 and humans.
No more BS please!
I am sure you’ve noticed that almost always I use peer-reviewed journals to report on developments. The few times I haven’t, I made it clear that the results had not undergone peer-review, but many folks had already examined the data and found it worthy- and those results would help folks respond to situations that required timely responses.