Tomorrow, the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee will meet and is widely expected to approve Johnson and Johnson’s (specifically Janssen Biotech, a subsidiary) single dose COVID-19 vaccine candidate. This will be the third…
I have received several questions about the type of antibody testing we perform at Santa Monica Primary Care. To date, we have sent samples out to Labcorp to test for antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein. The…
As my posts have tended lately towards more general observations about the vaccine rollout, I thought it might be helpful to provide some more specific data from our practice's experience - both with vaccination and with…
British publisher and writer Ernest Benn wrote that "Politics is the art of looking for trouble; finding it everywhere, diagnosing it wrongly, and applying unsuitable remedies.” Nowhere is this more true that in Los Angeles County’s…
Having spent the last two months functioning as the country's COVID-19 epicenter, cases in Los Angeles are declining rapidly (Figure 1). But the difficulty with interpreting this graph is that our maximum case load (which plateaued…
It is no secret that I believed that the CDC and then Director Dr. Robert Redfield had effectively abdicated their responsibility during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. Flash forward to a new administration, a new year…
There is a reason that you don’t hear about new COVID-19 variant strains arising from Japan, or New Zealand, or South Korea - and this is because the spread of coronavirus in these regions has been…