A long-term perspective on immunity to COVID/ Nature

The problem of highly restricted testing in the US The COVID-19 virus is quite deadly (mortality appears to be between 2 and 10% as discussed in my last post) though since we don’t know how many asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic cases there are, we still can’t be sure of this. Why don’t we know the…

I have been waiting for cases to peak and then go away.  Maybe that is what is happening in Virginia.  It is too bad no one is collecting seroprevalence data to learn how many people have already been affected and are now immune. State health officials say that the H1N1 flu may be peaking in…

The WHO has had a set of international health regulations (IHRs) aka a sanitary code to deal with multi-nation infectious disease outbreaks since 1969. In 2005, developed primarily under WHO Director-General Gro Harlen Brundtland, a major update was adopted, which is called the IHRs (2005). We did not know it then, but Brundtland was quite…

Coverage from USA Today and CBS News.

https://nypost.com/2021/08/27/biden-and-fauci-discuss-covid-19-booster-shots-every-5-months/ President Biden on Friday said he and Dr. Anthony Fauci discussed requiring COVID-19 booster shots every five months rather than every eight as previously anticipated. The shorter timeframe would increase the number of vaccine doses that the US will need to set aside for booster shots — as poorer nations clamor for more US donations. “The…

Nature’s Declan Butler examines and rebuts the claim that WHO experts’ paid consultancies affected the advice they gave WHO on the swine flu pandemic.  Butler correctly notes that many governments ordered some swine flu vaccine before WHO declared a Level 6 Pandemic.  He further reports that scientists said, “severity is impossible to pin down until…