CANCELLED by CDC late June 17: Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meeting on Covid vaccine side effects, Friday June 18

Will anthrax vaccine eventually become part of the childhood vaccine schedule?  When we are now vaccinating children for many diseases that they have less than a million in one chance of catching, why not add anthrax vaccine? Those diseases American children aren’t being exposed to are diphtheria, rubella, and polio.  There were only 8 meningitis…

From Dr. Heath A. Kelly, head of the epidemiology unit at Victoria’s Infectious Disease Reference Laboratory, comes this well-documented and clearly reasoned piece reviewing Australia’s experience with swine flu. Here are the main points: From the recognition of the swine flu pandemic in late April 2009, health professionals, politicians and the public needed to know…

Jim Binns, chairman of VA’s Research Advisory Committee on GW Veterans’ Illnesses since its inception, authored a detailed memo, with supporting documents, to show how Congress’ statutory charge to the IOM was changed to exclude animal studies and raise the bar for granting presumptive disabilities to ill Gulf War veterans. Jim deserves enormous thanks for…

        Hi MERYL NASS, MD,  Your account, @NassMeryl has been locked for violating the Twitter Rules.  Specifically for:  Violating the policy on spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19.  We understand that during times of crisis and instability, it is difficult to know what to do to keep yourself and your loved ones…

In a nutshell:  Yesterday CDC asked its advisory committee to “recommend” the Comirnaty vaccine for 16 and 17 year olds. And it agreed, unanimously. Or pusillanimously. The vote may seem silly or superfluous, because it had already been recommended for this age group as an EUA. But this vote was anything but superfluous. This seemingly…