HeyJaredClear and Present Thinking
Critical analysis of current infectious disease issues. This Pandemic and the next.
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Are You an AI Luddite? (opens the original)
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Before tackling that intentionally provocative subject, I am going to get into the COVID viral weeds a bit and try and predict (as usual) what will be your uninvited guest for the autumn holidays. Several folks have now asked me how effective I think the new fall COVID shot will be, and whether they should take it. The second part of that question is complicated and depends strongly on factors like your age, general health (especially cardiac and pulmonary), whether you are taking immune suppres
There’s A New mRNA Flu Vaccine (opens the original)
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I was a bit surprised when the FDA approved Moderna’s new mRNA vaccine despite the continued influence of RFK Jr., whose appreciation of that technology is right up there with Twinkies and the faux Beyond Meat brand. The phase 3 study which supported the FDA approval was just published in the NEJM, and was a double-blind, active controlled trial in 40,700 subjects over the age of 50, comparing the new trivalent mRNA vaccine against a standard licensed chicken embryo derived shot, both targeting
Science Takes the Fifth (opens the original)
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COVID has been conspicuously absent from the news this summer, unless of course you are talking about Dr. Fauci’s testimony before Congress. We usually see a mid to later summer peak in COVID cases, and there is currently a small uptick beginning around the country, particularly in the southeast, but the following CDC graph will demonstrate that any increase is starting from a much lower level than last year, or any year since the Pandemic began. Over the last few years we saw a dramatic decreas
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