Jeffrey S. Morris2 days ago1 minCurrent knowledge on vaccines, variants, reinfections, PCR tests, and COVID-19 deaths: A SeminarOn February 24, I gave a presentation (video link here) to the Messiah University Business Institute talking about various topics, includ...
Jeffrey S. Morris3 days ago1 minNew vaccines, skipping 2nd dose, vaccine alarmism, and vaccinating children: The CoVax Files podcastI was interviewed for this podcast "The CoVax Files" by Surani Fernando, a healthcare journalist. This series has been great -- this is ...
Jeffrey S. Morris5 days ago4 minUK study of health care workers provides evidence Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine protects against infectionA preprint was posted today on the Lancet site present results of a study investigating efficacy of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in health car...
Jeffrey S. MorrisFeb 105 minNew data out of Israel suggests protection vs. transmission may start 2 weeks after Pfizer 1st doseThe rapid vaccination of the population of Israel with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine coupled with its centralized universal healthcare sys...
Jeffrey S. MorrisFeb 615 minWhy it is all but certain the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are protecting against infection and transmissionDo the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines protect against infection and prevent transmission of the virus, or do they simply reduce symptoms of COVID-19...
Jeffrey S. MorrisFeb 44 minEarly evidence from Israel suggests that the Pfizer vaccines are workingA group of researchers in Israel have put together a preliminary report tracking cases and hospitalizations since their nationwide vaccin...
Jeffrey S. MorrisFeb 35 minPhase 3 trial for Russian vaccine Sputnik V published in The Lancet shows positive resultsWith all of the talk of the Moderna, Pfizer/BioNTech and AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines, and recent reports of preliminary data from Novavax...
Jeffrey S. MorrisFeb 27 minWatch Israel if you want to see early validation of efficacy and safety of SARS-CoV-2 vaccinesThe phase 3 studies for Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech SARS-CoV-2 vaccines yielded outstanding results -->94% efficacy in preventing symptom...
Jeffrey S. MorrisJan 308 minAre the vaccines really safe? What VAERs does and doesn't tell us about vaccine safety.Many people have been genuinely excited about the positive results from the Moderna and Pfizer/Moderna phase 3 trials suggesting the vacc...
Jeffrey S. MorrisJan 291 minNewborns are born with SARS-CoV-2 antibodies transferred in utero from their mothersA University of Pennsylvania-Children's Hospital of Philadelphia research team with which I collaborate just published a paper in JAMA Pe...
Jeffrey S. MorrisJan 212 minIt is critical for Biden's team to preserve the HHS hospitalization data Here is an article in The Atlantic penned by Alexis Madrugal, a cofounder of Covidtracking.com, discussing the database tracking local ho...
Jeffrey S. MorrisJan 212 minA few words from article on potential vaccine efficacy for new variantsHere is a AP news article reporting on a new paper presenting results investigating how the mutations underlying some of the recently rep...
Jeffrey S. MorrisJan 188 minNorwegian nursing home deaths after vaccination are in line with what is expected by random chanceThe occurrence of nursing home deaths after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination has created quite a stir, causing Norway to reconsider whether to vacc...
Jeffrey S. MorrisJan 179 minRefuting Peter Doshi's claims doubting "trustworthiness & meaningfulness" of COVID vaccine resultsPeter Doshi has written a piece in the opinion section for the British Medical Journal (BMJ), for which he is an associate editor, questi...
Jeffrey S. MorrisJan 103 minSome statistical perspective on anecdotal claims of vaccine-induced complicationsOn social media, it was inevitable that we would start to see anecdotal reports of serious medical conditions experienced after taking a ...
Jeffrey S. MorrisJan 718 minHow alarmed should we be about this new UK variant? Evaluation of the quantitative evidence.Given this article is somewhat long and involved, I first summarize its key points: A new SARS-CoV-2 variant has emerged and taken over t...
Jeffrey S. MorrisJan 52 minNew Nature Communications paper suggests robust neutralizing antibodies after COVID-19 recoveryA paper just published in Nature Communications yesterday measured neutralizing antibody levels in 195 individuals with PCR confirmed SAR...
Jeffrey S. MorrisDec 31, 20204 minEnd of December vaccine update from Derek LoweDerek Lowe writes a column in Science Translational Medicine each week that I have found to be informative and readable, and this week ha...
Jeffrey S. MorrisDec 29, 20207 minWhy I think Fauci's claims of vaccination proportion for achieving herd immunity are too pessimisticDr Fauci is one of the national leaders in the pandemic, but occasionally he says things that I have really disagreed with. One of these...
Jeffrey S. MorrisDec 15, 202015 minSome important (and perhaps under-discussed) considerations for vaccine distribution prioritySummary of key points: We will soon have 2 approved vaccines providing enough doses for >40% of the nation, but given there is no guarant...
