Reply to Questions Posed by the House Veterans Affairs Committee regarding Gulf War Illnesses
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FDA issued a license today for COMINATY, Pfizer’s Covid vaccine. There are caveats. It does not apply to the 12-15 age group. It does not apply to any vaccine currently located in clinics. Until vaccine appears on shelves with the COMINATY label, it is authorized and remains experimental, buying people a few days, I guess. …
From yesterday’s Scientific American: Despite government recommendations, there is little evidence that flu vaccines help individuals older than 65 or younger than two. Every year around this time, 120 million Americans roll up their sleeves to get their annual flu shots. Since 2010, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended yearly jabs…
Last week, live-blogging the ACIP meeting, I learned to my dismay that CDC wanted its advisory committee to sign off on frequent Covid vaccine booster doses–in the absence of supportive data! Perhaps the CDC was anxious to avoid data because the data suggest that boosters are unnecessary? Here are excerpts from a June 28 NYT article describing…
Bradley Manning spent nearly a year in solitary, being tortured with ploys like forced nakedness (perfected in Iraq as a torture method?). He is unlikely to ever be free. Julian Assange got the honeypot treatment and is likely to spend much of his remaining life incarcerated. Yet we were told those leaked cables had…
The anthrax letters did not test anyone’s vaccine. For people exposed to the anthrax letters, anthrax vaccine was given in three doses over 4 weeks. It takes about 4-6 weeks after vaccinations start before recipients develop levels of antibodies to anthrax that may be protective. The vaccine’s label even points out that anthrax vaccine is…
The WHO will shortly convene nations and tech companies to work on an international standard for the so-called health passports, according to Politico: BUILDING A ‘TRUST FRAMEWORK’ — The World Health Organization will convene member states and leaders of Covid-19 immunization credential technology groups to recognize different vaccine certificates across nations and regions, a top Vaccination…