By: Tali Elias (MS2) In less than a year since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna developed vaccines that promise an impressive 90-95% efficacy in protecting against the virus. Yet, the terrifying reality of receiving a novel vaccine with such limited data has cast a dark shadow over this groundbreaking […]
Read More →By Rachel Alter, MS2: This morning I read a story about a 29-year-old nurse, a marathon runner. I saw pictures of her traveling the world, practicing yoga, and dressed in her scrubs with a stethoscope around her neck. She appeared to be the picture of solid, young health. She died of covid-related cardiac damage in […]
Read More →By Noa Mecica “Given that 70% of the people in the world die from what we call non-communicable diseases (NCDs), it gives you a whole different way of looking at these things,” describes Finlay in intriguing new paper published in the journal Science (1,5). Non-communicable diseases are thought to be due to a combination of […]
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