/oss/taxonomy/term/784/all en /oss/article/covid-19/does-covid-19-mess-immune-system <p>Have you heard that, apparently, COVID-19 is “airborne AIDS?”</p> <p>“I think that that epithet is horrifying and beyond offensive,” Edward Nirenberg tells me. He is a science communicator with a degree in biochemistry who focuses his communication efforts on vaccines and COVID-19. “It categorically isn’t. It’s not what the data show.”</p> Fri, 10 Feb 2023 13:59:23 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9386 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19/covid-19-air-both-problem-and-solution <p>On March 28, 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, the<a href="https://twitter.com/who/status/1243972193169616898?lang=en"> </a><a href="https://twitter.com/who/status/1243972193169616898?lang=en">World Health Organization (WHO) tweeted out</a>, “FACT: #COVID19 is NOT airborne.”</p> <p>For medical doctors and biomedical scientists (including me), this made sense. Few diseases were known to be airborne.</p> <p>But to aerosol scientists, this was both puzzling and infuriating.</p> Sat, 15 Jan 2022 09:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 8980 at /oss /oss/article/health-you-asked/airborne-effective-against-common-cold <p>You can’t keep a good quack down for long. They keep resurfacing with irritating frequency. Victoria Knight-McDowell certainly doesn’t look like a quack. She looks like a pretty elementary school teacher. Which is exactly what she was before she became a millionaire peddling her invention. And what was that invention? A remedy for the common cold. Yup, this young grade two school teacher managed to accomplish a feat that had defied numerous highly trained researchers at the world’s top pharmaceutical companies. Or so she claims.</p> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:33:40 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 1822 at /oss