Japan should aim to eliminate covid -19

“Letter to Editor” Should women postpone childbearing during the COVID-19 pandemic?

It is not clear whether women can decide to become pregnant during the COVID-19 pandemic or whether they are at risk, because examining the long-term consequences of the virus, especially in the first months of pregnancy, requires further time and research(1). The COVID-19 virus has not been found in the semen and testicles of men infected with the virus in the acute phase or during the recover...

Relaxed Lockdown in Bangladesh During COVID-19: Should Economy Outweigh Health?

Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?

Paleoclimate d ata show that climate sensitivity is ~3°C for doubled CO2, including only fast feedback processes. Equilibrium sensitivity, including slower surface albedo feedbacks, i s ~6°C for doubled CO 2 fo r the range o f cl imate states between glacial conditions and ice-free Antarctica. Decreasing CO2 was the main cause of a cooling trend that began 50 m illion yea rs a go, the pl anet b...

Why we should eliminate personal belief exemptions to vaccine mandates.

We argue that personal belief exemptions to the mandate for childhood immunizations should not be allowed. Parents who choose not to immunize their children put both their own children and other children at risk. Other children are at risk because unimmunized children go to school or day care when they are contagious but asymptomatic, exposing many more children to potentially dangerous infecti...

Should Pneumococcal Vaccines Eliminate Nasopharyngeal Colonization?

Streptococcus pneumoniae remains an important human pathogen. For more than 100 years, there have been vaccine efforts to prevent pneumococcal infection. The pneumococcal conjugate vaccines have significantly reduced invasive disease. However, these vaccines have changed pneumococcal ecology within the human nasopharynx. We suggest that elimination of the pneumococcus from the human nasopharynx...