No-contact thermometers that pick up the heat coming off your skin have the potential to help screen masses of people for fever, but the body
Category: Writings
Written articles and blog posts
Blog – “Antibodies, Are You There?” Answering This Question Proves Challenging
Trying to determine if someone has antibodies against the new coronavirus will be important to public health authorities, but this approach faces numerous hurdles. https://mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19/antibodies-are-you-there-answering-question-proves-challenging
Blog – The Anti-Vaccine Movement in 2020
The popular depiction of antivaxxers as “earthy-crunchy” doesn’t tell the whole story. Anti-vaccine sentiment is strongly associated with conspiracy thinking and protection of individual freedoms,
Blog – How Antivirals Create Paper Jams That Stop Viruses in Their Tracks
What do remdesivir, lopinavir and ribavirin have in common? They are antiviral drugs being tested against COVID-19. But the way in which antivirals actually work
Blog – The COVID Science Express: Smoking and Sex Differences
Giving nicotine to healthcare workers and thinking that testicles are the coronavirus’ playground? Just some of the more “out there” hypotheses that have come out
Blog – COVID-5G: How Distrust and Coincidences Empower the Alex Jones in Our Brain
To implicate 5G cell phone signals in COVID-19 requires squaring a circle, something our human brain finds all too easy. https://mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-pseudoscience-technology/how-distrust-and-coincidences-empower-alex-jones-our-brain
