The United States started administering COVID-19 vaccines in Dec. 2020 [1]. When the vaccines became available, the country was faced with the decision of who should be vaccinated first. The Center for Disease and Control (CDC) provided guidelines of groups to be vaccinated in a specific order [2]. Per these suggestions, the people who should…
The United States leads the world in medical research and healthcare spending. In 2005, President George W. Bush announced a detailed and comprehensive plan written by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to prevent and respond to infectious diseases at the state and federal levels….
With the COVID-19 pandemic stretching into its tenth month this October, many people living in isolation are yearning for the chance to live life normally again. Current treatments for this disease span from simply staying at home and hoping people will recover naturally, to prevention via supplements, to direct treatment in hospitals through ventilators [1,…
One of the biggest questions people are asking is when we are going to get a vaccine. Presumably, designing an effective vaccine and wide scale vaccination campaigns will ultimately eradicate the virus or at least allow those vaccinated to return to a new normal. Research is flowing into COVID-19 research of all types, with Congress…
Imagine it is the autumn of 1918 and World War I is raging on in Europe. As a latecomer to the war, the U.S. is fighting in the trenches alongside the Allies, and daily news trickles back to the mainland bringing pictures of the war and the faces of the fallen. However, bullets are not…
Imagine you are beginning the second semester of your freshman year at Washington University. As you return to class in the winter, you very quickly become sick from a terrible virus. Student Health Services is overwhelmed, with little or no time to help you, as the virus has made over a third of the students…