by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 28, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
We now have three apparently safe and effective vaccines to help stop the current COVID-19 pandemic. The latest estimates are that the pandemic will not end until 70 to 90 percent of the North American population has some degree of immunity (JAMA, 2020;324(8):732)....
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 14, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech, have announced that their COVID-19 vaccine appears to be more than 90 percent effective against the disease. Early data from their 44,000-person trial analyzed the first 94 cases of symptomatic COVID-19 among the participants...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 27, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
J. Michael Lane was an epidemiologist who spent most of his life as probably the major player in helping to eradicate the smallpox virus. He traveled to Africa, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and other countries to combat outbreaks and create vaccination...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 24, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
We are in the midst of a serious pandemic in which more than 34 million people have been infected and more than one million have already died worldwide. Before 2019, no human had been infected with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, that causes the disease called COVID-19....
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 19, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Oxford University researchers have started testing inhaled versions of their COVID-19 vaccines compared to those given by intramuscular injection (Associated Press, Sept 14, 2020). An inhaled vaccine could be more effective than those given by injection because it may...
