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Vaccines do not cause autism
Photo by Frank Meriño. A common aphorism posits that it requires an order of magnitude more energy to refute misinformation than it does to propagate it. I’ll do my best though: Vaccines do not cause autism. I can say this…
COVID Roundup: This Week in Pandemic News
Photo by Mufid Majnun on Unsplash Published in the Humboldt Independent on November 2, 2021 Less than a year after the first vaccines were administered in the United Kingdom, almost half the planet has received at least a partial vaccination…
How to Train Your Immune System
Photo by Ellie Storms on Unsplash Published in the Humboldt Independent on April 27, 2021 While waiting in line at the grocery store last week, I ended up behind a mom and her young lad, who was maybe about six…
It’s Here!
Photo by Daniel Schludi on Unsplash The vaccine is here! After months of poor planning preventing passable performance, the light at the end of the tunnel has finally arrived. While a vaccine is not the all-inclusive Get Out of Pandemic…
Keep Your Mask On
Photo by Atoms on Unsplash I will go ahead and concede that a few layers of cloth don’t exactly seem like that significant of a measure in the face of a global pandemic. However, I must admit that I am…
Surge Protection
Photo by Gustavo Fring from Pexels Published in the Humboldt Independent on October 27th, 2020 Nine months into the pandemic, with winter approaching, we anticipate the expected surge in COVID-19 cases much better prepared than we were for the initial outbreak. Case numbers…
Twice Bitten?
Photo by Anna Shvets from Pexels Published in the Humboldt Independent on October 20, 2020 What Confirmed Reinfection Means for the Future of COVID-19 Since the beginning of the pandemic, we’ve been hearing rumors that COVID-19 can infect patients more than once, and…
N-Z Pandemic Vocabulary
Photo by Kimberly Farmer on Unsplash Published in the Humboldt Independent on October 13, 2020 Here is the rest of your pandemic lexicon, terms, and phrases we have become familiar with these past 7 months. N-Z N is for Novel,…
A-M Pandemic Vocabulary
Photo by Pixabay from Pexels Published in the Humboldt Independent on October 6, 2020 The pandemic has been good for our vocabularies. Many terms not known before and a few newly invented ones have become household sayings in the time of Covid-19. Test…
A Breathtaking View: Respiratory Health in Wildfire Season
Published in the Humboldt Independent on September 29, 2020 It’s been a rough year for breathing. We already ask quite a bit of our respiratory system, which is stuck between car exhaust, industrial and environmental pollution, seasonal bouts of pollen,…