Category Archives: COVID-19

I realize that the U.S. isn’t returning to widespread mask use any time soon, but it’s still worth noting that, as an intervention, masking is visible–which is very important, as it turns out. Two studies, one looking at adults who … Continue reading →

Because I never received the consent form? Much of our chattering class seems to believe that getting long COVID is just something we’ll have to accept (so lie back and think of England Biden, I guess). There does seem to … Continue reading →

Long COVID appears to be less frequent after Omicron infection, but there are a bunch of caveats. Saturday, the Washington Post, in collaboration with Epic Systems, a medical electronic records company, reported that, for those whose first COVID infection is … Continue reading →

And other interesting observations from a recent Gallup poll. You wouldn’t know it if you listened to the rabid anti-maskers, but people, some of us anyway, are still masking indoors: Also, despite ‘everyone’ having contracted COVID, 65% of American adults … Continue reading →

When this all started: Within a month, it was a nightmare. I still didn’t think we would hit over 1.2 million dead though.

And I was right, unfortunately. For the last couple of years, whenever I’ve written about long COVID, I’ve wondered if I was having my ‘reasonable not-completely-lunatic scientist goes full batshitloonitarian on COVID’ moment–sadly, there have been quite a few scientists … Continue reading →