Terry Clayton, PhD

Nine months ago the world came to a halt. Returning from a conference in Orlando, I had to quarantine for 2 weeks due to the Covid 19 virus. Soon after non-essential businesses had to close and we all watched the CDC website reporting daily the spread of SARS-Cov-2. Never would I have imagined that 9 months later, my kids are sitting at the kitchen table for Google meetings instead of going to school. A mask mandate is in effect and due to another "surge" businesses are b

1/8/21 Its the new year of 2022 and I was looking at a Christmas ornament from 2020. Its strange how not much has changed in the last 2 years. Alpha, beta, delta, omicron. Its like Jason in a Friday the 13th movie. It just won't die..... I have been told the AstraZeneca vaccine may offer protection from beta as well as delta, but probably not omicron. I have read that omicron is the most contagious but the least pathogenic. Here is a Yale summary (subject to change) o

It is believed that ground zero for the SARS-CoV-2 virus is a fish market in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province, China. Here the virus made the jump from animals to humans. Located around 20 miles away is the Wuhan Institute of Virology. There are reports and allegations that the proximity of the lab to ground zero is not a coincidence. In February, 2020 the institute released the complete genome for the virus made up of 29,903 nucleotides, which although helpful, fueled sus

What an exciting week! Today we learn the FDA has granted "emergency use" to Eli Lilly for a drug called bamlanivimab. Does this compete with the Pfizer drug announced yesterday #Covid19Vaccine? No. In fact, its actually a nice pairing to help the fight against Covid-19. Lets look at this chart: The "not so fun" way of building an immunity to a virus is to get infected (and unpleasantly sick) letting your body build antibodies the old fashioned way. Now, Pfizer and Mo

Everyone is now on the edge of their seats waiting. But for what exactly? How does the Pfizer vaccine #Covid19Vaccine, BNT162b2, actually work? For comparison, here is how a typical flu vaccine is developed: Attenuated virus vaccine A virus is forced to grow in different cell tissue (ex. Chick embryonic cells) The virus is replicated and Isolated 80 + times (virus passaging) As virus replicates over and over it adapts to the chick embryonic cells Adaptation to chicken tiss