Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccination for younger children is expected to be authorized by the CDC this week. How can you best prepare your child for the vaccine?
Where do mutations come from that yield new variants? Is it possible that the most serious variants arise not in large populations, but in immunosuppressed individuals?
As much as people are justifiably excited about the prospect for orally available drugs that can prevent and treat Covid-19, I believe the FDA needs to tread very carefully with molnupiravir, the antiviral currently before them for approval.
Public health preparedness in the U.S. faces enormous challenges. These include decades of neglect of public health and chronic underfunding at the local, state, and federal levels. Also, there is entrenched opposition to public health interventions, f…