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: long covid

  • The Long Haul, Part 1: What Long COVID Is Like

    This is the first part of a multi-part blog series on long term morbidity associated with COVID-19 infection (how many parts there will be in the series remains to be determined). In this post, Part 1 in the series, I will discuss what long-term COVID is like and the general impact of it on the…

  • Long Term Side Effects Of COVID Vaccines

    There are no “long term safety issues” with these or any other vaccine. If you don’t have a side effect 2-8 weeks after the injection, you will not have any further vaccine-related problems down the road. I challenge anyone to name any vaccine that has had side effects more than a couple of weeks following…