Making Sense of Medical Science (MSMS)

A medical scientist explains medical news for lay people

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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.

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What We Learned From Sweden’s Response To COVID

December 13, 2023

The real lesson from Sweden is that if you keep things open and people get sick, the economy still suffers in a pandemic. As far as the economy goes, it is a case of “damned if you do and damned if you don’t.”
Politics: A Risk Factor For Death From COVID?

October 11, 2023

The bottom line was that after the vaccines rolled out, Trump voting counties saw 40% higher fatality rates per million residents. Before the vaccines, the COVID death rates were the same for all counties.
The Next Pandemic Is Here

August 14, 2022

Clearly, not all pandemics are created equal. Some smolder like AIDS, others fulminate like COVID. What will our next pandemic be like?
What Happened To The Flu And Other Respiratory Diseases?

May 15, 2022

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.
Lions And Tigers And…Deer? Oh My!

December 26, 2021

Scientists now have evidence that CoV-2 also readily propagates in white-tailed deer. In fact, the virus is already widespread in cervids across the US, which likely has significant implications for the long-term course of this pandemic.
The History Of Vaccine Mandates In The US

November 3, 2021

There are historical precedents for vaccine mandates and even for forced vaccination.
What Caused India’s Devastating Second Wave?

May 8, 2021

This outbreak threatens to extend the pandemic itself and drive world-wide infections to new highs, creating an enormous a breeding ground for new and potentially more dangerous viral variants.
What Is Going On In India?

May 5, 2021

India is in the throes of a second major Covid-19 surge that has hit faster and harder than the first wave did.
Paying The Piper

April 9, 2021

In the face of a pandemic caused by a new and deadly virus, states and local governments enact social-distancing measures, bans on crowds, closure orders, and mask mandates in an effort to flatten the curve and prevent health care systems from being overwhelmed with critically infected people? Initially, people are fairly compliant with the order,…
More Than Half CoV-2 Transmission Comes From People Without COVID-19 Symptoms

January 11, 2021

The Journal of the American Medical Association just reported that 59% of new CoV-2 infections are likely caused by infected people who do not show COVID-19 symptoms.

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