The real truth. Some links omitted as they are included in earlier articles by me. Monkeypox is a real virus that spreads due to skin contact, almost exclusively. If you don’t want to call it a virus, that is okay with me. It is a contagious something that spreads person to person or rarely between…
Re: Clinical trial data for all drugs in current use 31 October 2012 Dr. Godlee’s editorial (BMJ 2012; 345 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e7304) underscores the importance of the GlaxoSmithKline decision to allow access to anonymized patient level data from its clinical trials. Meta-analysts can now work more efficiently in summarizing knowledge relating to the benefits and risks of…
From MedPageToday: Maybe you will need those 6-monthly boosters Netanyahu promised if you lack natural immunity… “neutralizing activity in the older groups declined approximately 10-fold at 6 months from the peak 14 days after the second vaccine dose; in those 18-55, activity was down by roughly half. But activity levels in the older groups remained…
Excerpts from Global Security Newswire: The U.S. Army should fine-tune its procedures for determining safety risks in its projects following slip-ups in plans for the new site of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md., a National Academy of Sciences committee said in a report issued Thursday (see GSN,…
UPDATE: I was reminded that a fellow named Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor (formerly of Blackwater/Xe) shot two Pakistanis on motorcyces to death in February. President Obama claimed he was “our diplomat”and insisted Pakistan grant him immunity under the Vienna Convention on diplomatic immunity of 1961. Davis had a car full of weapons, disguises and…
Check out CISA, the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency within the Department of Homeland Security https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/15/politics/us-government-hit-cybeattack/index.html Several US federal government agencies have been hit in a global cyberattack by Russian cybercriminals that exploits a vulnerability in widely used software, according to a top US cybersecurity agency. https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-government-hit-in-global-hacking-campaign_5336379.html Eric Goldstein, the executive assistant director for…