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Is this year’s flu a major killer or an annoyance?/ CDC
Probably the best data on the severity of yearly influenza epidemics comes from deaths in children, because there is mandatory reporting of each death as related to influenza. Flu-related deaths in adults are reported as due to flu (very few), pneumonia (more) or underlying chronic medical illnesses that contributed to death during or after a…
Does a leopard change its spots? CDC grabs the headlines with positive news about monkeypox vaccine, just before the truth outs
2 days later the JAMA publishes better data questioning its benefits. CDC never tells us what its own monkeypox vaccine trial in Congo learned about the vaccine. And always admits…nothing Meryl Nass Oct 3 STAT in an October 3 email only: “Last week [September 28] the CDC released heartening preliminary data on how much protection people who…
More data link increase in narcolepsy cases to Pandemrix vaccine in ADULTS aged 20-64/ AFP
From AFP: HELSINKI — Finnish researchers unveiled new data Thursday to link the Pandemrix flu vaccine to a higher risk of the sleeping disorder narcolepsy in adults. Other studies had already shown a link between the drug used in the 2009-10 “swine flu” outbreak and a higher incidence of narcolepsy in vaccinated children, teens and…
Oklahoma Guard goes rogue, rejects COVID vaccine mandate after sudden change of command, Governor calls mandate “irresponsible”
A nice shot across the bow. With such a peculiar Presidency (demented, but issuing grandiose orders, and flaunting the rule of law, while being incapable of reaching across the aisle) it will be interesting to see how else Republican states may respond. https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2021/11/12/oklahoma-guard-goes-rogue-rejects-covid-vaccine-mandate-after-sudden-change-of-command/ I was told that 26 states have joined actions against federal mandates,…
Hong Kong: 1 in 2700 teenaged males develops a clinical case of myocarditis after the 2nd Pfizer shot/ Clin Inf Dis
About 180,000 adolescents received Comirnaty vaccine in Hong Kong. 33 developed myocarditis. 88% were males and 12% were females. 82% followed the second dose, and 18% followed the first dose. The mean age of these cases was 15. One in 2700 boys got a diagnosed case of myocarditis after their second shot. Epidemiology of Acute…