Coronavirus

I was halfway through the last semester of my freshman year in college when, just before going on a spring break trip to Florida with friends, COVID commenced its slight trickle down the never-ending hole of American news. By the time we were leaving for the Sunshine State, the nation…

A newsletter providing a short account of the articles published in the previous month. — Hello all! It’s time for me to send another monthly update on what has been published in Microbial Instincts, an independent publication about infectious diseases and vaccines, in May 2023. As usual, here is a short list (friend-linked, no paywall) that I hope will keep you more scientifically informed: Covid-19

An Open Letter to the Past — Dear Jordan, We are 5,000 miles from home, you and I, writing alone in our small apartment villa in Northern Italy — Parma, Italy to be exact. I sit in a wooden chair hunched over a wooden table; the drapes are open, and I scribble words on paper, writing to…

Still be careful out there —

When my academic paper (on long-covid) is being misused to support that mRNA vaccines cause multiple sclerosis. — The claim that a new paper from the World Health Organization (WHO) showing that mRNA vaccines caused multiple sclerosis is going viral on Twitter, garnering millions of views in less than a week (Figure 1). Multiple sclerosis is the most common disabling neurological disorder in young individuals. It happens when…

About Me- Jose Ahumada Hello, everyone! My name is Jose Ahumada and I am an independent writer/journalist. I’m not quite sure where to begin so I’ll start off with the basics about my upbringing. Background I was born to Mexican-American immigrant parents and grew up in the city of El…

This week, we use AAII’s A+ Investor Stock Grades to provide insight into three airlines stocks. With continuing recovery from the coronavirus pandemic increasing consumer demand and the summer travel season starting, should you consider these three airline stocks of American Airlines Group Inc. (AAL), Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV) and…

Knowing the ways it influences our thinking can help with the inevitable blow to our confidence — Trouble For three years, I could have been the anti-Covid poster girl. I vaccinated. I boosted. I developed an acute sense of what constituted six feet between me and anything. I masked. I avoided. I rubbed my hands raw from obsessive antiseptics. I was perfect. And then, when it felt like…

A new study found altered schizophrenia genes in Covid-positive pregnancies. Let’s decode what the study truly means. — Whenever I watch horror ghost movies, I always think the characters may have schizophrenia. If Covid-19 had occurred a generation or two earlier, I might have thought that the schizophrenia character‘s mother caught Covid during pregnancy. This idea struck me when a commenter on my previous article shared a new…