Sandwalk

Here's Fauci being interviewed on MSNBC as part of his book promotion tour (see below). He's asked about the lab leak conspiracy the...

This post is just a place-holder for an article that I've already shared on Facebook. I greatly appreciate the fact that Orac referrd to...

This is a Reuters report about misinformation spread by the United States military in order to discredit China's Sinovac vaccine. It was...

On June 3, 2024,the New York Times published an opinion piece by Alina Chan in which she promoted the lab leak conspiracy theory about the ...

Scientists have been actively investigating the origin of SARS-CoV-2 for the past four years. The evidence strongly favors early transmissi...

NPR tweeted out a summary of the new CDC (United States) guidelines on COVID-19. The figure was posted under the name of Dr. Marcus Plescia,...

Akiko Iwasaki is a Professor of Immunology at Yale and a former student in my department (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Toronto). Sh...

Danish scientists have looked at the first 785 cases of Omicron variant in Denmark. The most important lesson is that 83% of the cases were ...

Scientists are very interested in the omicron variant and why it is so dangerous. Since vaccinated people are getting infected, it must mean...

I've learned a bit of immunology from hanging out with immunologists so I'm going to try and explain how vaccines protect you from t...

Michael Hiltzik is first off the mark writing for the Los Angeles Times : These authors wanted to push the COVID-19 lab-leak theory. Instead...

Harper is set to publish Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 in just a few days. The authors are Alina Chan , a postdoc at the Bro...

I'm currently discussing the meaning of "function" with a small group of scientists and philosophers and it's not easy to ...

Lots of people seem to be confused about the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The investigating commit...

An interesting paper on COVID-19 infections in the USA during 2020 was recently published in Nature . The take-home lessons are: abou...

A recent review in Science has the following subtitle, "Why most scientists say it's unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a la...

Here's a link to a recent review on the origins of SARS-CoV-2 written by 21 scientists from seven different countries. They are all reco...

I would like to think that the media will eventually wake up and recognize the science behind the origin of SARS-CoV-2. It overhelmingly sup...

Here's an interesting video where the hosts of "This Week in Virology" (Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler) d...

It is widely believed that a substantial amount of viral spread is due to individuals who are transmitting the virus but have no symptoms (a...