There are many questions about the Israeli study demonstrating that “natural immunity” to CoVID was more protective than that induced by vaccination. As screengrabs of this headline circulate across social media, it is important to point out several things. First, this study is a pre-print and has not yet been peer-reviewed. That said, we know that for many diseases, natural immunity CAN be more protective than that induced by vaccination. So the conclusions are not necessari

This has been a very busy time for scientific publication. Every few days, a large-scale trial yields some important data on a hotly debated topic. A few days ago, researchers from Stanford and Yale released the results of the first randomized-controlled study on mask wearing. (If you read until this point and said to yourself, “Stanford? Yale? What do they know?” no need to continue, you won’t like the rest.) Enrolled in the study were 350,000 subjects in Bangladesh, and the