CDC’s criminally inadequate testing for Covid starkly reflected in CDC graph

CDC posts its latest stats for flu on Fridays.  See how, despite the pandemonium over flu, things are improving, and it looks like this season is less severe than 2003-4, 2007-8, and 2009-10. UPDATE #1:  January 12:  Aetna said this week it has seen a spike in flu cases this year but it is not…

Including the misdirection, sloppiness and impaired memory of Dr. Faust, the part-time ER doctor and pundit/ expert witness The fifth day of my board hearing was May 30, 7.5 months after it began and 16.5 months since I was suspended for charges that the board dropped prior to litigation. No one can remember the details…

Joel Zinberg November 27, 2022 https://www.city-journal.org/end-the-vaccine-mandates One year ago, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an interim final rule requiring 15 types of health-care facilities that receive Medicare or Medicaid funding to ensure that their more than 10 million employees were vaccinated against Covid-19. This was one of multiple Biden administration mandates…

Excerpts from the AP’s Mike Stobbe: The recall is for about 800,000 pre-filled syringes intended for young children, ages 6 months to nearly 3 years. The shots, made by Sanofi Pasteur, were distributed across the country last month and most have already been used, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Doctors were…

The Hypnotized Masses Two book reviews Josh Mitteldorf Jun 26 Listen to the author reading this review The Psychology of Totalitarianism, by Mattias Desmet, Chelsea Green, 2022 The Coronation, by Charles Eisenstein, forthcoming from Chelsea Green July 28 (earlier draft essays available online) In medicine, there is the pathogen and the terrain. Do we get sick when we are…

From Jacob Goldstein at the WSJ blogs: Swine-flu shots are going begging in Germany, and the government is selling some of its vaccine on the foreign market, NPR’s Shots blog notes. Only 5% of the overall population and 15% of doctors have gone to the trouble of getting vaccinated.