CovidGram: Vaccine Effectiveness and Safety – December 25, 2020

FRONT PAGE  Vaccination effectiveness. What percentage of the U.S. population will have to get vaccinated to have an impact on the spread of the pandemic? Herd immunity is an end stage of a pandemic when enough of a population has developed immunity to protect the rest of the population that is not yet immune. Herd immunity stops the spread …

CovidGram: Vaccine effectiveness – December 11, 2020

a Covid news digest for the period November 21 – December 11, 2020            FINAL EDITION FRONT PAGE Vaccines – how effective are they and how often do they need to be repeated? There are four front-runners in the race to government approval. CovidGram takes an in-depth look at the two vaccines that use mRNA technology. As of December 11, Pfizer-BioNTech’s …

CovidGram – Racial disparities in disease rates- October 16, 2020

a Covid news digest for the two-week period of October 3 – October 16, 2020            FINAL EDITION   FRONT PAGE More on airborne transmission and institutional reliability. The CDC has finally issued what we hope will be a permanent warning about coronavirus aerosol risk. Racial and ethnic disparities in Covid case and death rates. A deeper look into Milwaukee’s racial …

CovidGram: Making sense of the latest research

KHEPRW COVID CONVO presents COVIDGRAM, a weekly news digest   How CovidGram helps you stay on top of the COVID pandemic CovidGram is a COVID information sanctuary that grew out of a conversation during Kheprw’s “Mumbo Jumbo” weekly community conversation series. It scans COVID news from worldwide sources and flags reports that appear to be misleading, false, or otherwise unreliable. …