Have you, or someone you know, experienced things smelling or tasting distorted after having a viral infection? Turns out this is a pretty common phenomena after having a viral infection and it’s known as PAROSMIA! This last year we saw a huge increase in the number of long-term cases of parosmia which makes us allContinue reading “Parosmia”
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Alternative and Modern
You can be here! A series that captures the duality of our thinking. The third post in this series is all about the seemingly never-ending conflict between “modern” medicine and “alternative” medicine. Truth is, we need to leverage both as it pertains to our personal health journey. You absolutely need to take care of yourContinue reading “Alternative and Modern”
Vaccination Decreases Variant Evolution
Variant evolution appears to be declining proportional to total vaccination rate! A recent pre-print (last week) looked at the diversity of SARS-CoV-2 genomes across 183 different countries (total of 1.8 million sequences). The more diverse the lineage, the more mutations it incurred. The more mutations that occurred, the higher the chance of a concerning variantContinue reading “Vaccination Decreases Variant Evolution”
Trust and Empathy
You can be here! A series that captures the duality of our thinking. The second post in this series is talking about the importance of trusting in the robust process for monitoring adverse events while simultaneously maintaining a high level of respect, acknowledgment, and empathy for individual experiences. As a science advocate, I have aContinue reading “Trust and Empathy”
Monitoring Adverse Events
Monitoring for adverse-events after vaccination is fundamental to public safety and is taken very seriously. But how does it work? There is a very robust system in place to monitor for safety! Let’s get to know it so we can place our trust in it. Understanding is power. In this post I go over theContinue reading “Monitoring Adverse Events”
Vaccinated but Cautious
You can be here! A series that captures the duality of our thinking. The first post in the series is talking about the conflict in our minds about how to live life in a pandemic with some of the world having access to a vaccine, but not all. It’s about having a vaccine that isContinue reading “Vaccinated but Cautious”
Transplant Recipients – 3rd Dose
Solid-organ transplant recipients have, so far, seen a weak immune response to one or two doses of vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. The main reason for poor response to the vaccine in these patients is because of their strong immunosupression (glucocorticoids, calcineurin inhibitors, mycophenolic acid, mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitors, and/or belatacept). This study takes a lookContinue reading “Transplant Recipients – 3rd Dose”
It Takes a Village
No one single person invented mRNA vaccines. It takes a village! 🏡🏡🏡 Many thanks to @sciencewhizliz for leading the gigantic task of querying the many publications related to mRNA technology and counting authors. @niniandthebrain then came in clutch with her fantastic data presentation skills to visually illustrate just how spread out author contribution is. This post was initially inspiredContinue reading “It Takes a Village”
Breakthrough Cases
A new study was published that looked deeper into real-world effectiveness of the two mRNA-based vaccines. What I find most interesting about this publication is the information about the severity and duration of disease in the observed breakthrough cases (infections in vaccinated individuals)! A basic understanding of immunity would lead you to hypothesize that ifContinue reading “Breakthrough Cases”
Survival of the Fittest
It’s 💪🏼 SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST 💪🏼among the variants and Delta is in the lead! The frequency of Delta cases is growing very quickly all over the globe. While the Alpha variant is currently still the highest proportion of cases in the United States, it is slowly declining and being replaced with the more transmissibleContinue reading “Survival of the Fittest”