The Committee on Government Reform issued a report on the anthrax vaccine program in 2000 titled “Unproven Force Protection”

From Charlie Savage at the NY Times: WASHINGTON – Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone. Essentially, officials want Congress to require all…

 What does $60 billion buy in terms of enhanced security?  From CIDRAP we get a detailed look at what our government’s bioterrorism establishment has been shopping for: If someone tried to kill Americans with Bacillus anthracis spores today, the nation would have a better medical tool chest for treating the sick and those potentially exposed than it…

There are so many questions.  But so few answers.  So little to go on.  No workable Plan B in sight. When to reopen the economy?   When to send children back to school?   Will there be a second wave, or even a third wave, as occurred with the 1918 swine flu pandemic? Those questions demand answers,…

Eric Feigl-Ding@DrEricDing Europe and US are mostly all on the same path. Note log Y-axis (linear=exponential; steeper line is more exponential). Japan also has limited testing. Only SK, Singapore and HK have it under control or improving. #COVID19 Twitter Ads info and privacy

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From Fierce Pharma: AstraZeneca was humming right along with its partnered COVID-19 vaccine with the University of Oxford before a sudden trial hold threw its plans into disarray. So what does that uncertainty mean for AstraZeneca’s expectant manufacturing partners on the shot? For at least one, it could be no issue at all.  Despite a…