Tag: Vaccines

Thank you for a “brilliant” start to 2023. I had such a lovely (albeit emotional) time with you, and to commemorate these past few weeks and the memories I made, I’ve written you the following letter. Please enjoy. As you may know, my decision to visit you was quite an unusual o...

It was only four years ago when we called the pathogen we now refer to as “the coronavirus” nCOV-19. It was, in many ways, more descriptive than what we have today. The little “n” there stood for “novel” — and it was really that little “n” that c...

I am not, nor am I holding myself out to be a doctor/physician, nurse, physician’s assistant, advanced practice nurse, or any other medical professional (“Medical Provider”), psychiatrist, psychologist, therapist, counselor, or social worker (“Mental Health Provider”), ...

The NYT resurfaced that piece this week after the Nobel committee announced that Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, two scientists who cracked the secret of how to use mRNA (messenger RNA) to send genetic instructions into cells, had won the Nobel Prize for their work. They’re a great st...

Asa Malaysian, I’m surprised that Malaysia is one of the top countries whose people believe vaccines cause autism (Figure 1). Perhaps we are just not as vocal in voicing this issue, giving the illusion that vaccine hesitancy isn’t prevalent here. The Ipsos Mori Perils of Perception Su...

This week brings the launch of an international stockpile of effective Ebola vaccines. It is to be managed by the International Coordinating Group on vaccine provision (ICG), under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO), with MSF participating as a member of this group. This is posit...