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Dr. Moalemi Getting Antibody Testings Done Before the COVID-19 Vaccination
Dr. Azita Moalemi getting antibody testings done before the COVID-19 vaccine. Follow us during this journey as she voluntarily gets vaccinated and goes through the process. Below are a series of videos that document this process. We’ll be uploading new videos as she start taking the vaccines next week. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3…
Dr. Moalemi will be Among a Group of Physicians Getting the COVID-19 Vaccine
On 12/11/2020 the FDA approved the COVID-19 vaccine. As a member of medical staff of Virginia Hospital Center, this morning we received an email announcing the availability of the vaccine for their physicians, nurses and healthcare providers. I have signed up and will be receiving the vaccine on Saturday December 19 at 10AM. The second…
Book Recommendation – The Great Influenza
It is time for my next recommendation for a book! The great influenza is a beautiful narrative of the pandemic of 1918 and many lives that it affected. John Berry masterfully describes the characters of physicians and scientists who dedicated their lives to the pursuit of discovery and cure of the influenza virus. It is…
Appropriate Animal Models for the COVID-19 Vaccine
What are the Appropriate animal models for the COVID-19 vaccine? In order to study a vaccine, you have to have an animal model of the disease. Many animals do not get infected with COVID-19 and do not suffer any disease so it would be useless to study them. There are a few models available: Mice…
Vaccines: CanSino (A Branch of Sinovac) in Beijing
Having a plan in place during the COVID-19 crisis will ease your mind and, in case you become ill yourself, ensure that your loved one is cared for. Here are some ideas to consider.
More About Moderna Vaccine Trial
Phase I trial mostly uneventful. What is next ? Phase II trial How many volunteers? 600 What does it entail? Actual efficacy of the vaccine and whether the volunteers make neutralizing antibodies. (Phase I was only 8 patients studied) What are neutralizing antibodies? Antibodies that bind the virus in such…
Moderna Vaccine Trials
The Moderna Company which got some publicity in the news never actually published their data in the medical literature but did a press release. What did they test? Low, intermediate and…
COVID-19 Vaccines (Current Candidates)
There are currently 159 candidates for the vaccines, 11 of which have already conducted the human trials and 8 have been approved to move forward with further human testing. Moderna – RNA CanSino Biologics – Adenovirus type 5 Inovio – DNA BioNTech, Pfizer – RNA University of Oxford/ Astrazeneca – Chimp Adenovirus Novavax – Virus…
VACCINES – Part 1 – Approaches (Platforms) for Development of a COVID-19 Vaccine
To understand the process behind vaccine development, you have to go back to my section on immunology and recall how the body fends off a microbe. Recall that the first line of defense against a foreign entity like a virus is the innate immunity which tries to create a barrier against entry followed by a non-discriminate…
VACCINES
In this series which will probably be about 10 parts I am going to talk about vaccines. There is much to know about development of a vaccine and I am going to try to break it down. As in my other posts you have to read these in sequence to get the most out of…
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