Richard Bloomer, University of Memphis I’m a fitness enthusiast. I also adhere to a nutrient-dense, “clean” eating program, which means I minimize my sugar intake and eat a lot of whole foods for the purpose of optimizing my health. You might wonder how effective such a diet and exercise plan would be in the…
Sanjay Mishra, Vanderbilt University Takeaways: Vaccines can be great at preventing you from getting sick, while at the same time not necessarily stopping you from getting infected or spreading the germ. Preliminary evidence seems to suggest the COVID-19 vaccines make it less likely someone who’s vaccinated will transmit the coronavirus, but the proof is…
Data from Qatar provide strongest evidence yet that COVID-19 vaccines can stop strains thought to pose a threat to immunization efforts By Ewen Callaway Reprinted from Springer Nature under Creative Commons CC-BY license Qatar’s second wave of COVID-19 was a double whammy. In January, after months of relatively few cases and deaths, the Gulf…
Editor’s Note: If, like me, you are not used to engaging in reasoning about morality as a rigorous “moral philosopher” would reason, then you may, also like me, find this essay challenging and perhaps even frustrating. I’ve read it and I’m still not sure I’m convinced by it. There are plenty of moral reasons…
Penny Riggs, Texas A&M University One surprising star of the coronavirus pandemic response has been the molecule called mRNA. It’s the key ingredient in the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. But mRNA itself is not a new invention from the lab. It evolved billions of years ago and is naturally found in every cell…