COVID-19: The Coronavirus as Chimera Enters Vaccine Design

In any scientific field, censorship sooner or later must yield to truth. Without this, there can be no scientific progress. As it happens, a June 2020 article that detailed the challenges in designing an anti-COVID-19 vaccine also turned out to … Continue reading →

COVID-19: Killer of Black, Brown and Poor of US and Haiti

We are supposed to be thinking this week about the health disparities in the United States based on race and ethnicity, since the New York Times, Washington Post, National Public Radio, and even USA Today are going on about it. … Continue reading →

COVID-19: Diagnostics, Treatments, and Long-Term Solutions

The first infection by the agent of COVID-19, variously called 2019-nCoV or SARS-CoV-2, probably happened around December 12, 2019, based on the interviews in late December with a group of new pneumonia patients in Wuhan, China. Most of the pneumonia … Continue reading →

COVID-19: Background Science to Understand the Pandemic

Pathogenic RNA viruses began to prey in earnest on humans around the time of our industrial revolution. As the human population exploded and then increased its density by a massive effort of urbanization, it also changed land use to encroach … Continue reading →