My earlier posts on this case: highlights

According to the Business Standard: Later on Wednesday the President of the European Commission said the EU was in talks with Pfizer and BionTech for a new contract for 1.8 billion doses, confirming a Reuters report from last week. “We need to focus on technologies that have proven their worth. mRNA vaccines are a clear…

From Gallup:  Americans’ Ratings of CDC Down After Ebola Crisis No other agencies measured showed a decline in ratings PRINCETON, N.J. — Americans’ ratings of the job being done by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are down significantly from last year, from 60% saying it is doing an “excellent” or “good” job to 50%….

This long piece meanders from the H1N1 pandemic and the billions spent to save us from a flu much less malign than usual, to the marketing of Tamiflu (a dangerous drug for influenza whose efficacy may be zero) to the problems with industry control of research on all drugs in our pharmacopeiea.  The points may…

  HOT! Today Dutch Parliament Votes to Instruct the Government to Demand a Delay in both WHO votes–and if no delay, to vote against the proposals This motion got a majority vote of the Dutch Parliament ! MOTION BY MEMBER of the Dutch Parliament Mona KEIJZER ET AL. Proposed April 10, 2024. A majority voted…

By Madlen Davies, Ivan Ruiz, Jill Langlois, and Rosa Furneaux — The Bureau of Investigative Journalism Feb. 23, 2021  Republished by Stat, this report includes many of the details missed in the video published earlier. COURTESY ADRIAN JOHNSON Pfizer has been accused of “bullying” Latin American governments during negotiations to acquire its Covid-19 vaccine, and the company has asked some countries…

Deborah Rudacille of the Baltimore Examiner has two more excellent articles exploring the underside of anthrax vaccine; its manufacturer Emergent Biosolutions (formerly named Bioport); and how the anthrax attacks provided life support to both the vaccination program, which was about to be cancelled, and to Emergent, which produced only one product: anthrax vaccine. Exhaustively researched,…