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Europeans sniff at flu outbreak threats/ Financial Times
A Financial Times article tells us that Europeans are unlikely to want much flu vaccine this year. But companies will do well regardless, in part because they will be able to use stocks of influenza antigen (made under contract for last season) in the coming season’s flu vaccines.
COVID vaccine injury claims mount, but recourse is lacking for those harmed/ Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/covid-vaccine-injury-claims-mount-recourse-is-lacking-those-harmed-2021-10-19/ (Reuters) – As the Biden administration puts the final touches on an emergency COVID-19 vaccine mandate for companies with 100 or more employees, a crucial piece seems to be missing for the unlucky few who experience serious side effects: meaningful legal recourse. More than 1,300 COVID vaccine-related injury claims are now pending before an…
Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratory (BL4) March to Irrelevance/ HuffPo
While millions of gallons of oils are spewing from under the earth’s mantle in the Gulf of Mexico, and no one has a sure-fire idea of how to stop the river of oil, we have the perfect backdrop for a discussion of Boston’s Highest-Containment (BL-4) biodefense lab. The lab has been built but is still…
Flu shots may interfere with broad immunity developed after natural infection / Vaccine
From a public health standpoint, a true pandemic flu–a la 1918–is what might cause really large mortality and morbidity. Seasonal flu causes a few hundred deaths in healthy people, and perhaps a few thousand in the frail elderly in the US each year. (We don’t have a good count of cases, and rely on modeling…
The vial the FBI destroyed, or why there will always be a spore on a grassy knoll
Does this case hinge on the first samples Ivins gave to the FBI, of which one was sent to Dr. Paul Keim in Arizona? Why does that sample matter, if the flask the FBI later confiscated had the same strain and genetic variability? Furthermore, if Keim’s sample is critical to the case, one must ask,…
The Mask Distraction/ Brownstone institute
This is a very sensible article on the usefulness of masks in preventing COVID. The newly formed Brownstone Institute has hired a top notch team of leaders (including Martin Kulldorf) and they are writing and curating articles like mad. Please consider signing up for their feed. And remember that heat pumps are extremely effective in…