the challenges associated with disease eradication
There is a terrific video bit done by Penn and Teller explaining the benefits of vaccines versus the non-existent risk of autism. They throw grapefruits at miniature bowling pins arranged on the floor. Penn’s side has a big plexiglass screen representing vaccines. The grapefruits bounce off. On Teller’s side, the helpless unprotected children are decimated […]
Vaccination is protection, not a force field Read More »
Wednesday morning was cold. Just above freezing at 8:30 am. I wandered past the old apartment building at 88th and Amsterdam to witness an already-formed queue of mostly Hispanic people. The CitiMD on Broadway had only opened a half hour earlier and yet the covid testing line wrapped around the block. Just a block away
two lines and two neighborhoods Read More »
How long have coronaviruses been around? Hundreds of years? Thousands? Millions? How far back in time do we have to send Bruce Willis to stop all possible coronavirus pandemics? Even though viruses don’t leave fossils, evolutionary biologists have developed some sophisticated and creative strategies to answer these questions. Does it matter? Does the answer tell us
Darwin, drift and the age of coronaviruses. Read More »
Mark SiddallNovember 4, 2020 Suppose there was something really important going on. This could be whether the fact that Trump is ahead in Pennsylvania and Georgia means we are doomed to another 4 years of his antics. Or, less partisan, what your chances of dying are if you happen to catch SARS CoV 2 in
COVID-19, the Election and Pre-Calc Read More »
The single most important tool we have right now to fight SARS CoV 2 is testing and contact tracing. Don Hopkins used to tell me every time we talked in the making of the Countdown to Zero Exhibition that “You cannot treat what you do not track”.
Get Tested Now (or try anyway). Read More »
