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Health-Care Pros Aren’t More Immune to Fake News. And Other Science Journal Findings
Healthcare professionals can still fall for fake news, the UK variant is more deadly, and the pandemic exacerbates gender inequality at home in this week’s roundup…
Virus Variants Can Resist Antibodies. And More News Straight from Science Journals
Lockdown drives us to make bad choices, the fall in carbon emissions will have little effect, the danger of new variants and more in my weekly…
No Flu Season Will Affect Next Year’s Vaccine Prep
Experts predicted that the 2019/20 flu season in the Northern Hemisphere would be a bad one. And then it wasn’t. The COVID-19 pandemic hit, international travel…
New Ways to Cope with Zoom Fatigue. And More Headlines Straight from Science Journals
Fighting Zoom fatigue, real world vaccine results, and overcoming Indigenous vaccine hesitancy in this week’s roundup of pandemic science for The Tyee.
Poor phase 4 safety results for tofacitinib raise questions about JAK inhibitors
Preliminary data from a phase 4 post-marketing safety trial of the arthritis drug tofacitinib have turned up worrying results for the Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor, indicating…
It’s OK to Stretch Out a Second Vaccine Dose. And More New COVID Science
Longer gaps between vaccine doses are OK, Neanderthal genes are protective, and 20 million years of life has been lost in this week’s roundup of pandemic…