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Vaccination lessons from a fast-food restaurant (hold the fries)

February 14, 2021

Two by two they came. Some arrived alone. A few showed up in groups of three. The gray February morning might generously have been described as brisk: Temperatures in the teens, and the north wind coating everything in a chilling layer of precipitation that defied categorization as rain, ice or snow. Yet nothing seemed to […]

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Bodywork: Time to double up on masks?

February 2, 2021

Effective masking is crucial to stopping virus transmission. Should we be doubling up?

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Bodywork: Dispelling Covid-19 vaccine myths

January 19, 2021

A gloved hand holds a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine vial

These vaccines are tried, true and trustworthy.

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My life as a vaccine guinea pig, part III

January 17, 2021

OMRF VP Adam Cohen shares his journey through the Pfizer vaccine clinical trial.

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Dr. Fauci, Scientific Superstar

January 10, 2021

At this time last year, if we’d asked you to name a scientist, what might you have said? “Umm…” C’mon, we’d respond. No Googling. “Albert Einstein,” you’d eventually offer. Maybe a little more head-scratching would also have conjured Watson and Crick, or Galileo and Newton. Double bonus points if you’d come up with Marie Curie […]

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Goodbye, 2020

December 27, 2020

The pandemic will not end with the dropping of the ball in Times Square. That will come slowly, one vaccination at a time.

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