Layperson Version Blog Posts

Viruses are not living cells or organisms. They are obligate parasites or nonliving organisms that lack metabolic machinery of their own...

Table 7.1 Reported illnesses with the novel coronavirus have ranged from mild symptoms to severe illness and death. The symptoms may...

Care for coronavirus patients is supportive in nature and may include rest, supplemental oxygen, fluid administration, and, for...

This is a continuation of our discussion on the treatment and management of COVID-19 and infectious diseases in general. We’ll start with...

Different from recombinant and mRNA vaccines that manipulate the body’s immune response to a virus and its genetics, antiviral drugs...

By definition, a vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active, innate, and adaptive immunity to a particular infectious...

Vaccination is the act of getting a vaccine, usually in the form of an injection into the arm of a person (immunization) to protect...

The application of the knowledge from immunoinformatics (computational immunology) has led to a better understanding of the importance of...

If you have gotten this far in this blog (and not cheated and jumped over a few (can I blame you???), you certainly don’t need another 10...

So, just what is “the paradox of the immune system?” As you have probably concluded by now, the “paradox” is actually a collection of...