Category Archives: COVID-19

Another Reason Why D.C. Needs Statehood: The Vaccination Edition

Posted on September 23, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Some good news for D.C. residents on the COVID vaccine front (boldface mine): D.C. adults and most children should have an easier time accessing the coronavirus vaccine at pharmacies, after the D.C. Council on Wednesday voted to ease restrictions around … Continue reading →

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Get a COVID Vaccine Now

Posted on September 5, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

I don’t have much to add to this excellent piece by Sabrina Ambler about how to get a COVID vaccine in HHS Secretary Kennedy’s America (the piece isn’t behind a paywall and shouldn’t require email registration etc.). One important date … Continue reading →

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We Can’t Understand Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Without Tucker Carlson and Fox News

Posted on August 27, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Recently, Dylan Scott at Vox attempted to explain how anti-vaccinationism arose (boldface mine): Well, for starters, even though anti-vaccine activism has existed for decades, the movement received a boost with the COVID-19 pandemic and the way it polarized people’s opinions … Continue reading →

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When HHS Secretary Kennedy and Other Trump Appointees Foment Stochastic Terrorism Against Public Health Workers

Posted on August 11, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Last Friday, someone who was convinced that COVID vaccines caused his depression and suicidal tendencies murdered a police officer and fired dozens of rounds at CDC facilities in Atlanta. So it’s clear, high profile members of the administration, all of … Continue reading →

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NIH Directly Saved Millions of U.S. Lives and That Has Been (Intentionally) Forgotten

Posted on July 30, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Over the weekend, Russell Vought, Chief Theocrat and head of OMB, launched a nonsensical rant about NIH. Many arguments on behalf of NIH, and they’re not wrong, focus on long-term research that ultimately pans out years or decades later. But … Continue reading →

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It’s Propaganda All the Way Down

Posted on April 18, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

So, today, the Trump Administration rerouted covid.gov, which used to be a COVID-19 guidance portal (it provided information about care, prevention etc.) to a White House page that supports the ill-founded lab leak hypothesis. While this is par for the … Continue reading →

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“Congress” Didn’t Defund Free COVID Vaccines…

Posted on September 4, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

…Republicans did. While I’ve criticized the Biden administration over its COVID (non-)policies during the last few years, see if you can find what is wrong with this description by the Washington Post (boldface mine): As updated coronavirus vaccines hit U.S. … Continue reading →

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You Have to Protect Your Prinicipals from Contagious Disease

Posted on July 26, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

One of the things I don’t understand in professional sports is the blase attitude towards COVID (or towards other respiratory viruses, for that matter. Leaving aside a small, but not negligible, chance of long-term illness, if you get a symptomatic … Continue reading →

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The De Facto Trump Administration Blueprint, Project 2025, Is Full of COVID-Related Insanity

Posted on July 17, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Among the torrent of bullshit that is the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025–a blueprint for a second Trump administration–is this section on public health (pp. 451-452; boldface mine): Goal #4: Preparing for the Next Health Emergency. The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated how … Continue reading →

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Viruses Don’t Care about Your Politics

Posted on July 1, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

One would have thought people in positions of power would have learned this by now (boldface mine): Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass began the week by suggesting that her city consider a new mask ban for protesters, and ended it … Continue reading →

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