Understanding the COVID Vaccine: As explained in Snapchatisms
If you’re not already impressed by the COVID19 vaccine, you should be.
Let me take one moment to clear something up before we start.
If you follow me regularly, you know that talking about food and eating, and attempting to systematically dismantle diet culture from my cozy home office is my usual zone of genius.
I much prefer chatting about hunger cueing, braising a pork shank, or intuitive eating to conversations about spike proteins and standard errors of the mean.
However, as a physician and a public health professional, I felt moved to have this conversation with you about the COVID19 vaccines that were rolled out this week because it very well may stand as one of the most extraordinary clinical science achievements that we witness in our lifetime.
A lifetime that hopefully will not be prematurely extinguished in the grips of this vicious disease like it has unfortunately now ended for 310,000 fellow Americans to date.
That doesn’t count the suffering of hundreds of millions who have lost a loved one, lost a job, lost their health, lost their…
