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Why It Takes So Long To Make a Coronavirus Vaccine

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-coronavirus-vaccine-takes-so-long_l_5ea868fbc5b66a3cfefa2a36?ncid=APPLENEWS00001 A vaccine in 12-18 months may not be realistic but is hopeful. First, the particular type of vaccine that may work best is determined. Then, there are human clinical trials. There is a lot of safety testing. Then, larger effects are observed such as side effects and at which dosages they come up. Then, … Read more

CDC: Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19

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Here’s the CDC’s writeup: Estimates of excess deaths can provide information about the burden of mortality potentially related to COVID-19, beyond the number of deaths that are directly attributed to COVID-19. Excess deaths are typically defined as the difference between observed numbers of deaths and expected numbers. This visualization provides weekly data on excess deaths … Read more

Revealing unequal burden of COVID-19 by income, race/ethnicity, and household crowding: US county vs. ZIP code analyses

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Dr. Jarvis T. Chen and Dr. Nancy Krieger of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have recently published a paper, “Revealing the unequal burden of COVID-19 by income, race/ethnicity, and household crowding: US county vs. ZIP code analyses,” in which they examine COVID-19 disparities through an analysis of factors such as income, race/ethnicity, … Read more

“Greenhouse Gas Emissions Predicted to Fall Nearly 8% – Largest Decrease Ever,” NPR, April 30th, 2020

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In an NPR article by Jennifer Ludden and Jeff Brady, the authors connect the dots between Covid-19 and the massive reduction in energy demand, and other influencing factors in the U.S./world economy. Their major claim is that this perfect storm, as a result of warmer winter combined with movement-restrictions related to Covid-19, will reduce greenhouse … Read more

With record-setting speed, vaccinemakers take their first shots at the new coronavirus

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https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/record-setting-speed-vaccine-makers-take-their-first-shots-new-coronavirus An experimental vaccine made by Moderna, well-financed biotech, was created and tested in Haller, who received an outpour of appreciation. Moderna and China’s CanSino Biologies are the first to launch small clinical trials of vaccines against COVID-19. Vaccines group into eight different platforms including old standbys and technology. Vaccines against related coronaviruses that cause … Read more