Showing posts with label vaccine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vaccine. Show all posts
Friday, November 21, 2025

Viewpoint diversity on swastikas and vaccines: one close call and one further descent

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The canary was revived after being found gasping for breath in the coal mine... The Washington Post reports this morning: In reversal , Coas...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Science and politics: Can you fix science by doing much less of it?

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 Today's NYT has a long opinion piece about (my former Stanford colleague) Jay  Bhattacharya in his role as the new head of the National...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Covid vaccines saved millions of lives, mostly of older people

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Here's a recent estimate of lives saved by Covid vaccines. Ioannidis JPA, Pezzullo AM, Cristiano A, Boccia S. Global Estimates of Lives...
Monday, March 17, 2025

Making America contagious again: Measles

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  Nature has the story: Will RFK Jr’s vaccine agenda make America contagious again? Fears are rising that infectious diseases such as measle...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Politics, Physician Senators, and the Hippocratic Oath (regarding the confirmation of RFK Jr. as HHS secretary)

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  Here's an opinion piece from MedpageToday Physician Senators, What Have You Done?— They have betrayed the Hippocratic Oath in voting t...
Sunday, February 2, 2025

Challenge trials are becoming more accepted

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Challenge trials, also called human infection trials, are clinical trials in which e.g. a vaccine is tested on participants who have volunte...
Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Incentives matter for getting participation in clinical trials by low income households

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  Here's a study that casts some light (via a randomized experiment) on the importance of incentives to get representative participation...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Why Mpox Vaccines Aren’t Flowing to Africans in Desperate Need.

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  The NYT has the story: read it and weep... Why Mpox Vaccines Aren’t Flowing to Africans in Desperate Need. Drugmakers have supplies ready...
Saturday, July 13, 2024

Covid vaccine boosters: promoting uptake is hard

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  A recent study published in Nature shows that inexpensive nudges (to get Covid revaccinations) can have small but measurable effects (abou...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Incentives to take tests and get vaccinated

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  As the pandemic phase of Covid-19 recedes, we can reflect on what we've learned about demand for tests and for vaccines.   Here's ...
Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Scientists deliberately gave women Zika--challenge trials for diseases whose incidence has dropped too far for conventional clinical trials

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 Nature has the story (despite the somewhat inflammatory headline). Scientists deliberately gave women Zika — here’s why. ‘Human challenge’...
Friday, September 22, 2023

Support for hepatitis C human challenge studies, in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology

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 Here's a call for action, in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology: Joint statement in support of hepatitis C human challenge st...
Monday, September 4, 2023

Covid medication: allocation, information, hesitancy, and uptake: what are some things we have learned?

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 I've posted before about how informational advertising  about vaccine availability and safety seems to have had a positive effect on va...
Saturday, August 26, 2023

Challenge trials for a Hepatitis C vaccine

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  The Journal Clinical Infectious Diseases has a special supplement on challenge trials (human infection trials) of a Hep C vaccine (now tha...