DOD’S Current Policy on Exemptions from Anthrax Vaccine
This slide is from a DOD presentation to medical providers.
Hepatitis B is a serious disease. It is highly prevalent in many countries in Asia (nearly 10% of Chinese carried the illness in 1992), but fortunately is of low prevalence in the US. Per CDC, the overall reported US incidence rate for 2013 was 1.0 case per 100,000 population. After adjusting for under-ascertainment and under-reporting,…
In very early 2020 there was a lot of chatter about where the virus, later named SARS-CoV-2, actually came from. In an excellent, detailed article for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, former NY Times science writer Nicholas Wade describes how two short pieces published in The Lancet and Nature Medicine in Feb-March 2020 determined…
Having dissected the false claims made for Tamiflu, which the US government stockpiled to the tune of $1.5 Billion dollars, Peter Doshi and Tom Jefferson draw some important conclusions about drug data and regulation in this NY Times Op-ED of April 10: IN the fall of 2009, at the height of fears over swine flu, our…
Why are Super PACs different than all other PACs? [No, we are not discussing Passover tonight.] See what the NY Times has to say. But here is a quick summary: Super PACs can accept and spend donations throughout the year, not just during election periods Super PACs have few or maybe only one donor, and…
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 By Dan Herbeck BUFFALO NEWS STAFF REPORTER The medical director for seven Western New York skilled nursing facilities says he has been using Ivermectin to help elderly patients fight Covid-19. Dr. Paul Shields is not ready to call Ivermectin ? which has not been approved as a Covid treatment by the…
The Lancet’s H1N1 Flu Resource Center includes this interesting article on the provenance of the swine flu virus. CDC submitted a first set of completed coding sequences (8 gene segments) for the 2009 swine flu virus to GenBank on April 27, 2009. Drs. Hong Zhang and Ling Chen of Zunyi Medical College, China, compared the…