MSF’s Ebola Clinical Guidelines

The Grey Lady said so, so it must be true. But maybe there have been one or two cases, as detailed later in the article.  NY Times columnist David Leonhardt wrote on May 11: “There is not a single documented Covid infection anywhere in the world from casual outdoor interactions, such as walking past someone on…

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…

Narcolepsy has been in the news the past 10 days.  Severe disabilities in 31 affected Irish children were reported; 70-100 Finnish children were reported with the disorder after receiving Pandemrix; 86 Norwegian claims have been made; now 170 Swedish children are affected, according to Sweden’s health minister.  A Swedish study found the relative risk of…

Thanks to Ed Silverman at Pharmalot for posting on this issue, and for his links. I’ve blogged in the past here and here about how Merck created a complex scheme to market Gardasil vaccine through mandates from state legislatures.  It seemed this was not working, as only one state and the District of Columbia passed such mandates.  After…

Entire article from the Telegraph to save you from its paywall: The number of people who have died from Covid in Britain during the pandemic is impossible to determine because of the inconsistent definitions of what is meant by a coronavirus death, researchers have concluded. Experts from Oxford University discovered that public health and statistics organisations across…