“You are what you eat”. Often followed promptly by “eat fat and you will become fat”. These are phrases repeated to us by our parents, families, friends and other well-meaning sources of guidance that surround us. People often ask me why I write long posts. Well,...
So I had my second dose of the Moderna vaccine at 9 am on Thursday. After an uneventful 20 hours, the effects really hit around dawn the following day. What followed was a 15 hours of chills, sweats and extreme body pain, and then poof! Just like that, the symptoms...
This write-up has been a long time coming, but my inertia (laziness) towards actually writing anything was finally broken by the recent spate of posts (from well-meaning individuals) proudly announcing their vaccination and celebrating a path to normalcy, hopefully in...
Part 2: The snapshot of immunity So, my last post on the perception around Covid vaccines (and the basics of the immune response) seems to have generated a fair amount of interest, and consequently a number of follow-up queries. The primary topic in the messages that...