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ACIP: Flu vaccine shot for everyone, every year/ LA Times
The LA Times reports that what I expected to occur has now happened. The CDC’s ACIP used the swine flu pandemic to gin up flu anxiety and activity. They don’t seem to care that Tamiflu was found to be an “Emperor’s New Clothes” story, nor that the data to support vaccinating everyone (let alone the…
CDC says there were 269 separate, reported incidents of lost or escaped ‘select agent’ microbes in 2010/ Reuters
Not to put too fine a point on it, but today’s Reuters story has even more bad news on safety at our highest containment labs: According to a 2012 report by CDC scientists, there were 16 incidents of lost or escaped microbes from select-agent labs in 2004, meaning everything from misplaced samples to an infected…
Coming Clean. The best and most touching meander on the vaccine wars. Don’t miss it.
This article happens to have been written by the son of a friend, but I read it all the way through because it is amazing. I think it can spark a conversation that will help mend our families–Meryl Coming Clean My experience of the pandemic in South Africa and the case for a more inclusive…
U.K. variant isn’t linked to more severe disease or death, study finds/ Lancet Infectious Disease
NBC News reported on this important Lancet Inf Disease study: People infected with the more contagious coronavirus variant first identified in the United Kingdom did not experience more severe symptoms and were not at higher risk of death, according to a new study published Monday. The study, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, looked at data…
White House Makes a Big Deal of New Heroin Efforts–But Says Nothing about Stemming the Flow or Why We’re Still at War in Narco-State Afghanistan
On March 29, 2016 the White House issued a press release on its new heroin initiative. The Washington Post described how much Obama proposed to do. The long list of fixes and new public-private partnerships address addiction treatment almost exclusively, with a sop to law enforcement. The 1 billion dollars spent, Obama said, will treat…
Why would you design a vaccine that may cause serious neurologic symptoms that mimic those of the disease? / Cell Reports Medicine
This article from Yale authors supports the idea of homology between antigens in the brain and spike protein, thus autoimmune effects on the brain may be due to SARS-CoV-2 infection or to vaccination-induced Spike protein: Divergent and self-reactive immune responses in the CNS of COVID-19 patients with neurological symptoms https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(21)00116-6 Summary COVID-19 patients frequently develop neurological…