Keeping Things in Perspective

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…
The Lancet’s H1N1 Flu Resource Center includes this interesting article on the provenance of the swine flu virus. CDC submitted a first set of completed coding sequences (8 gene segments) for the 2009 swine flu virus to GenBank on April 27, 2009. Drs. Hong Zhang and Ling Chen of Zunyi Medical College, China, compared the…
ABC News reports that a new strain of influenza has appeared in several states. CDC officials are worrying that it might become the predominant strain this flu season. Based on modelling, CDC thinks Tamiflu might help. (However, Tamiflu only shortens bouts of flu by one day, according to the package insert. It is probably a…
… Recently at the World Governments Summit Tedros said: “Countries set themselves a deadline to complete the agreement in time for adoption at the World Health Assembly in May of this year. That’s now just 15 weeks away. However, there are currently two major obstacles to meeting that deadline. The first is a group of…
So, Biden promises you won’t have to take the Covid vaccines…that is, until the government tells you that you have no choice. Then the rulers will try to pick off all members of society, using gifts, lotteries, cajoling, coercion, loss of livelihood, jail… However, the vaccines don’t work well, so you will have to keep taking…
From Dr. Stephen Frost, one of the doctors making this request of the Attorney General: I am one of the doctors who have been fighting for an inquest into the suspicious death of Dr David Kelly in July 2003, pointing out that due process of the law has been subverted by four successive UK governments,…