Ka Lok Hong

An Excellent Pharmacology Study Published in Nature! Ditching Paxlovid? I just read an excellent pharmacology paper published in Nature, and it’s about how a cheap old liver drug that could prevent COVID. I haven’t seen this study covered in mainstream media, and I don’t even see my YouTube colleagues covering it, so I am taking […]

No, you are not getting enough essential nutrients for keeping a healthy immune system. In the past two years, there has been much focus on the importance of vitamin D and how it associates with COVID disease outcomes. Perhaps you are already taking vitamin D supplements to support your immune system. But is that all?

Excess Deaths Beyond the Pandemic This week I want to touch base on a very sensitive topic, which is excess death in the US, or some researchers call this, missing Americans. When you hear excess death, you may think about excess deaths associated with COVID in the last two years. You are not wrong. You

Does bivalent work better than monovalent? Industry vs. Academic research, whom to trust more? (Studies) Let’s have an update on the bivalent vaccine human immunological data. Is the bivalent vaccine really better than the monovalent vaccine, like the manufacturer have said, or is it just another similar product that may have wasted taxpayer’s money? Let’s

Vaccine mRNA found in breast milk or not (new and older studies). How did we miss that in the past? Does mRNA from vaccines really “leak” into human milk? The quick answer is yes, but not always. Let’s look at four older studies first. Study 1: Yes, sometimes. One of the first COVID mRNA vaccine

Pandemic is Over….Post-COVID vaccine autoimmune syndrome and Long covid, could they be related? Long-COVID impact Long COVID symptoms can be grouped into three general clusters, 1) neurological, 2) respiratory, and 3) systemic inflammatory. Neurological symptoms appear to have been receiving more attention. A research team from the Northwestern University School of Medicine reported that non-hospitalized

When Experts defy the Officials, who are telling the truth? Timing The CDC stated that adults who completed their primary vaccine series are eligible for the updated booster if it’s been at least two months since their previous vaccine. They advised those who recently had an infection to wait three months before getting boosted. Is

All Eggs in One Basket, One Critical Misstep Made? | Multiple studies breakdown The approval and recommendation process Let’s have a very quick recap of the events that lead to the authorization and recommendation of the BA.5 bivalent vaccine. On June 28, the FDA Vaccine and Related biological products advisory committee held a meeting with

I made this simple infographic. I hope this can help people know the simple facts of the two different mRNA vaccines at a glance.