Excellent Seattle Times poster on Covid-19 and prevention

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/17/lancet-covid-pandemic-failure-reforms/ “The ability of the public health system to identify cases, trace contacts, and isolate infected individuals can be overwhelmed in just a few weeks of uncontrolled community transmission,” the report says. Right, so you stop doing contact tracing when you know if doesn’t work. Instead, contact tracing was started after it was known to…

This is a very long article from Politico, but the meat is below and it is worth your attention.  For those who ask why the US data show few breakthrough cases, and reasonable vaccine efficacy, while the data from the UK and Israel show practically no vaccine benefit at this point in time, and possibly a…

It is not a question whether vaccines are safe, the real question is how safe?  8 weeks ago a famous cancer specialist died hours after receiving a yellow fever vaccine.  For him, they were clearly not safe enough.  From CNN: “(CNN)  “A leading cancer expert, who was described as a “pioneer” in his field by…

Science 22 August 2008:Vol. 321. no. 5892, pp. 1026 – 1027 excerpted from the body of the article: (my apologies that a free link is not available) …The FBI disclosed earlier that only eight samples had all four mutations; on Monday, it said that all but one of these came from USAMRIID. And all eight…

Who is the person in the Obama administration who has been most firmly pro-consumer and staunchly in favor of strict banking regulations?  Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law School professor/consumer economist. Professor Warren is trying to clean up the marketplace so consumers will understand what it is they are buying.  She has acknowledged that when reading…