Kids Can’t “Self Care” Their Way Out of This

“Kids are resilient.” If you’re like me, you’ve come to cringe every time you hear that statement. It now ranks up there with the words and phrases “unprecedented,” “new normal,” and “out of an abundance of caution.” Thanks to COVID, I’m done hearing these phrases, and I’m done allowing everyone to brush off every trauma …

Vaccines and Variants

February brought us exciting news about vaccines as well as troubling news about COVID-19 variants. There has been confusion about how these variants may impact vaccine effectiveness. Hopefully this blog post helps clear up some of that confusion. New Variants In the last couple of months, new variants (strains or mutations) of COVID have been …

Just Wash Your Hands and Wear Your Mask

If you’ve set foot in your local supermarkets lately, you may have noticed cleaning products appearing on the shelves again. In some cases, sales are limited to one or two items per person, and brand name items like Lysol spray and wipes may still be rare finds. Thanks to “the great fomite freakout,” (Morris as …

COVID-19 Reporting and Scientific Communication Confusion

I don’t want this blog to turn into correcting the media reports about COVID or pointing out their flaws (check out HealthNewsReview.org for that), but I do think it’s important to point out some common misconceptions people have after reading media reports about science; these misconceptions have only been heightened during COVID, especially as more …