Making Sense of Medical Science (MSMS)

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Steve Clark, PhD is a retired university professor with a PhD in immunology and a past Special Fellow of the Leukemia Society of America. Clark has published dozens of papers based on his research and holds two drug patents. He taught medical and graduate students about cancer biology and genetics, and about research ethics. He also directed an NIH-funded PhD Graduate Program and chaired several executive-level faculty committees. Clark served on the University Chancellor’s Speaker’s Bureau. While retired, Clark has been blogging on the COVID pandemic, which is the subject of his next book.

Category: epidemiology

  • Another Jab’ll Do Ya…

    What the boosters do is prevent you from getting serious disease that these new variants can visit on you! Realize that the vast majority of people across all age groups who were hospitalized with serious disease last fall did not get the updated booster for the current virus that was circulating.

  • Vaccine Disinformation Moves To Congress

    This was not a meeting called by a regular committee but an ad hoc gathering of some anti-vaccine rogues. It was held in a tiny back room in the Capitol and was poorly attended, poorly staffed, and poorly equipped. It was described as a meeting of the “shadow Congress;” accurately named as it dabbled in…

  • Part 2: Gain-Of-Function Research At The Wuhan Lab—What Exactly Was The Wuhan Lab Doing With Coronaviruses?

    In other words, this test simply expressed the spike protein of each novel coronaviruses on the backbone of the safe lab virus genome in order to see if it could infect human cells. This completely negated the need to grow and handle the potentially much more dangerous wild-type virus.

  • Is Intentional COVID Vax Disinformation Criminal?

    The Kaiser Family Foundation found that between June 2021 and March 2022, 234,000 deaths could have been prevented with COVID vaccinations. Vaccine disinformation that convinces people to avoid being immunized against the virus that causes COVID, undoubtedly caused many of these deaths.

  • The Virus Came From Wuhan Lab DOE Now Says…..Sort Of

    …the world has been abuzz with reports that the Department of Energy recently reported that it decided, albeit with low confidence, that the SARS-CoV-2 virus might have leaked by accident from the virology lab in Wuhan.

  • Pandemic History: Long COVID

    Who are those people susceptible to long COVID? It also seems that vaccination protects a bit against long COVID, but not as much as previously thought. But, this observation complicates things. The vaccine is designed to stimulate an immune response without the risk attendant to an infection. Why doesn’t this immune response cause long COVID…

  • COVID More Deadly Than Flu For Kids

    In the US, nearly six times more kids and teens died from COVID in one year than did from the flu, according to a new analysis of pediatric mortality data.

  • Masks Redux

    The effectiveness of masks in schools is supported by many different studies and analyses that show similar results. There are more than a dozen studies beyond those cited here, that all point to the same conclusion: Masks work.

  • What Happened To The Flu And Other Respiratory Diseases?

    In this post, I present further data on how the mandates significantly reduced the incidence of other infectious respiratory diseases around the world. If the measures can reduce flu, then you can bet that they also reduced COVID-19.

  • A Single Gene Doubles Risk Of COVID Death

    British scientists recently identified an allele, or a version of a gene, that portends lung failure and death in COVID-19 patients.