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‘Held to ransom’: Pfizer plays hardball in Covid-19 vaccine negotiations with Latin American countries/ Stat News
By Madlen Davies, Ivan Ruiz, Jill Langlois, and Rosa Furneaux — The Bureau of Investigative Journalism Feb. 23, 2021 Republished by Stat, this report includes many of the details missed in the video published earlier. COURTESY ADRIAN JOHNSON Pfizer has been accused of “bullying” Latin American governments during negotiations to acquire its Covid-19 vaccine, and the company has asked some countries…
It is medically illogical to wait until someone is very sick before treating them
Here’s the thing. For the first week of clinical illness, disease is primarily in the respiratory tract, and viral titers are rising. After a week, you start making detectable antibodies, and usually viral titers decline. But other processes are at work making you sick, especially an inappropriate immune response. And you are still dealing with…
Swine flu vaccine is safe, they say: but I am seeing nasty coincidences
Real data is important, and anecdotes are just anecdotal. Yet during the past 3 weeks I have been personally involved with 3 events that have me concerned. I am a doctor on an island of 13,000 people, where hundreds received swine flu vaccine. Coincidence 1: several hours after getting the swine flu vaccine, a man…
US and World Swine Flu Statistics/Xinhua and CDC
Xinhua, September 5, 2009: Total US swine flu deaths are at 593; this is confirmed by CDC. Total US hospitalizations are 9,079. California has had 144 deaths. New cases at 165 US universities totalled 1,640 last week. No college students have died. WHO reported total global deaths of 2,837. The MMWR mortality in children report…
NY Post: Scientists Slam FBI ‘Thrax Probe In Bid To Clear Buddy ‘Dr. Doom’
Susannah Cahalan’s NY Post story provides a needed counterpoint to last week’s Washington Post puff piece on the Bruce Ivins case. Who would have expected to find higher journalistic standards at the NY Post than at its Washington namesake? New information in this story includes the fact that the FBI was renting the house next…
In Sweden, 5.4 million swine flu jabs saved six lives/ The Local
An estimated five lives were saved in Sweden by swine flu shots–while 170 Swedish children have developed narcolepsy as a result, and no one has any information on how many other severe side effects were due to the vaccine. (Sarcoidosis, for example: see below.) Add in the cost of the vaccinations (about $100 million was…