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Can the Flu Vaccine Also Help With COVID-19?

1 Oct 2021

Bonus features on a DVD or Blu-ray disc (remember those?) are nice, but we don鈥檛 expect them from vaccines. As the novel coronavirus hurtled through communities in 2020 and no specific vaccine was...

Claptrap!

24 Sep 2021

Back in the 18th聽century, a theatrical line that was delivered to shamelessly elicit or 鈥渢rap鈥 applause from the audience was referred to as 鈥渃laptrap.鈥澛 The line usually didn鈥檛 have much meaning...

Plexiglass: Protection for 鈥淭he Pieta鈥 and Us

11 Sep 2021

Some companies have benefitted from COVID-19. Like those that manufacture plexiglass. Banks, stores, automobile dealers all feature plexiglass panels to reduce the chance of viral transmission. The...

How to Help Protect the Under-12 Crowd

3 Sep 2021

This article was originally published in the Montreal Gazette

The Internet is full of claims that vaccines do not protect us from COVID-19. What recent evidence is there that they do?

27 Aug 2021

It is true that the original protection rate of over 90% in the trials has not been matched by real-life experience, but that was to be expected. However, the protection is still significant....

Clearing up the confusion about COVID boosters

20 Aug 2021

This article was originally published in the Montreal Gazette

Escaping COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

20 Aug 2021

As I write this, 4.8 billion doses of a COVID-19 vaccine have been administered globally. Even with my scientific background, I cannot easily wrap my head around this number, 4.8 billion. If you...

The Strange Case of Dr. Cahill and Ms. Hyde

13 Aug 2021

鈥淚f you鈥檙e under, like, 70 or 65 and you鈥檝e no underlying conditions, this is all a hoax.鈥 You鈥檇 be forgiven for thinking that this wild assertion about a pandemic that has killed over 4.3 million...

Do vaccine incentives actually work?

6 Aug 2021

This article was originally published in the Montreal Gazette...

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