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Vaccines don’t last forever. This is by design: Like many of the microbes they mimic, the contents of the shots stick around only as long as it takes the body to eliminate them, a tenure on the order of days, perhaps a few weeks. What does have staying power, though, is the immunological impression that […]
A new dichotomy has begun to haunt the discourse of the pandemic. With the rise of the super-transmissible Delta variant, experts say any going to get vaccinated, or going to get the coronavirus. For some people, a decent number of us will actually be both. Coronavirus infections are occurring among vaccinated people. They will continue […]
Many people have started to fear traveling to East Africa, particularly Uganda, because of the infection and death of the Dutch tourist earlier this month. However, since then only 1 fatality has been reported and it is interesting to note that the ranger guide who escorted the tourist to the cave is extremely normal. This […]
Updated at 9:28 a.m. on September 21, 2021. For nearly two years now, Americans have lived with SARS-CoV-2. We know it better than we once did. We know that it can set off both acute and chronic illness, that it spreads best indoors, that masks help block it, that our vaccines are powerful against it. […]