Covid-19 Epidemic
November 29, 2024
Influenza and Covid-19 remain substantial infectious diseases which will cause serious disease and death this fall. We have effective and…
, , , ,September 18, 2024
Fall is here. Get your Covid-19 vaccine promptly and the influenza vaccine by early November. Both illnesses can be quite…
, , ,June 5, 2022
In June 2022 we are living with Covid-19 and likely will do indefinitely. I provide a compact comprehensive look at…
, , , ,November 2, 2021
New antiviral medicine and effective long-acting antibody injections will dramatically improve our tools to fight Covid-19 around New Year's. It's…
, , ,November 2, 2021
KN95 masks provide the best protection for you and your contacts. Cloth masks were a make-do because real masks were…
, ,October 3, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic continues. Immunization remains critical to individual health and suppressing the epidemic. A third dose of Pfizer vaccine…
, , , ,August 22, 2021
I have a lot of ground to cover since my last post in February. At that optimistic point it appeared…
, , ,February 7, 2021
Covid-19 vaccines began last week for everyone over 75 in Massachusetts. The state distribution program includes websites to sign up,…
, , , , , ,January 4, 2021
We use available state Covid-19 infection rates and other published data together with the binomial distribution to calculate the risk…
, , , , ,January 3, 2021
Two monoclonal antibody treatments are conditionally approved by the FDA, seem to substantially help moderately severe cases of Covid-19, and…
, , , , , ,December 14, 2020
The first mRNA vaccine from Pfizer has shipped. The vaccines are highly effective and will make a major difference, but…
, , ,October 12, 2020
We provide multiple brief updates about the state of the Covid-19 pandemic, the vaccines, the treatments or lack thereof, how…
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