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Nutshell version of the boosters, FDA and CDC
Back in June and July, I told you about the charade going on in the media and at CDC to make Americans think a decision on booster doses would be made based only on the Science. Supposedly our public health agencies were pushing back against Pfizer. Below I explain how the charade finally played out….
Large Mumps Outbreak Ongoing in Vaccinated Hasidic Jews
Snippets from Business Week. One solution being used in Orange County is to keep vaccinating with a third dose of the same vaccine, though the MMWR editor notes that no data exist to support this approach. Isn’t the appropriate answer to develop a better vaccine? According to the MMWR, “Among patients aged 7–18 years, the…
Seasonal flu risk–benefit/IBT Australia
Why so many reactions following seasonal flu vaccination? Some have suggested it is due to children who had had earlier, subclinical flu infections. Such silent infections would have left them with robust immunity. They may then have responded to vaccination with an excessive response, triggering fever, convulsions and potentially death. This idea remains a theory at…
Scientific impossibility: Did FBI get their man in Bruce Ivins?
“Bruce Ivins was a cold-blooded murderer, a deranged psycho-killer, who in the fall of 2001, cooked up a virulent batch of powdered anthrax, drove to Princeton, N.J., and mailed letters loaded with the lethal mix to five news organizations and two U.S. senators. At least, that’s what the FBI says. The letters infected 22 people,…
Cellphone carriers responded to 1.3 MILLION requests from law enforcement agencies in the US last year / NY Times
From Eric Lichtblau at the NY Times: WASHINGTON — In the first public accounting of its kind, cellphone carriers reported that they responded to a startling 1.3 million demands for subscriber information last year from law enforcement agencies seeking text messages, caller locations and other information in the course of investigations. The cellphone carriers’ reports,…
Prior Approval for ASO3-Adjuvanted Vaccines?
I was asked if any other vaccines have been approved that contain ASO3. The answer is yes, and no. No licensed US vaccines have ever contained this adjuvant. I am not aware of its presence in licensed vaccines used in any other countries, prior to the H1N1 adjuvanted vaccines. However, ASO3 was approved by the…