A local Maryland paper provides new information from a colleague who worked at USAMRIID with Ivins through 2007, and published USAMRIID’s official response to questions.
McClatchy’s Greg Gordon has written another excellent piece on the anthrax letters. The focus this time is on the silicon and tin added to the spore prep, and how the FBI resolutely failed to investigate them as a means of solving the case: The existence of the silicon-tin chemical signature offered investigators the possibility of…
It is not unreasonable to conclude that surgical and cloth masks, used as they currently are being used (without other forms of PPE protection), have no impact on controlling the transmission of Covid-19 virus. Current evidence implies that face masks can be actually harmful. The body of evidence indicates that face masks are largely ineffective. …
The NY Times has published a graphic with 4 separate graphs on it daily, since close to the start of the pandemic. It received all the information in the graphs (and probably the graphics themselves) from the CDC. The graphs provided the number of cases, ordinary hospitalizations, tests performed and deaths. Months ago, a useful…
Many people have asked me to post my “whole cocktail” of drugs for Covid. I don’t have a whole cocktail because I individualize treatment based on underlying conditions, age, weight, severity and symptoms. However, I recommend that everyone take Vitamin D, about 5,000 IU/day for prevention and treatment. Don’t wait until you get sick. If…
The following is the text of Professor Harvey Risch’s opinion piece in yesterday’s issue of Newsweek. As professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, I have authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and currently hold senior positions on the editorial boards of several leading journals. I am usually accustomed to advocating for positions within…
