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  • The COVID Choice

    We’ve received many questions about the various COVID-19 vaccines. Your undecided patients are asking questions and you were not sure what to say. Here is an article to help. We’ll cover…

  • Die Another Day: The Mortality Gambit

    Anyone who has spent time interfacing with the anti-vaccine denizens of major social networks has likely come across an argument such as this: Usually this argument is accompanied by some version…

  • Statistics for deaths from measles in Samoa as of 12-4-19

    Learning from the Tragedy in Samoa

    In 1956, a team of social scientists led by Leon Festinger finished a book called When Prophecy Fails. Sixty years later, this book is still considered a classic in the field.…

  • Measles and the Immune System: The Surprising Truth

    But what’s the truth about the immune system and the measles? How does measles cause infection? What does it do to the immune system during infection?  How does the vaccine help?…

  • Titer Andromedon

    “Why does my kid need a second dose of this vaccine? Can’t we just check his titers? What are titers anyway?” When we talk about titers, we are almost always talking…

  • Measles Update

    On Thursday, I spent a big part of my morning doing something I had hoped I would never have to do in my career. I put in place a set of…

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    Mumps: Why Bother Caring?

    Oh man, mumps! Washington State is in the midst of a mumps outbreak. We weren’t the first (Arkansas has about 2500 cases), but we’re giving it our best effort! So far…