Reposted from 2014

Finland’s National Narcolepsy Task Force released its preliminary report today, and GSK’s swine flu vaccine is implicated.  From the Associated Press: The National Institute for Health and Welfare, which published the findings, said that 60 children and adolescents contracted narcolepsy in Finland in 2009 and 2010. Fifty-two of them — or almost 90 percent —…

 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01557-z nature   news & views   article NEWS AND VIEWS 14 June 2021 A long-term perspective on immunity to COVID Determining the duration of protective immunity to infection by SARS-CoV-2 is crucial for understanding and predicting the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Clinical studies now indicate that immunity will be long-lasting. “The good news is that…

From Bryan Bender at the Globe: Former officers and specialists say the defense industry’s political might is getting a new boost from an accelerating flow of retired generals and admirals. The Department of Defense… runs an exclusive job service to teach soon-to-retire generals how to land jobs in the defense industry. And military firms routinely…

From FierceBiotech: “Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to grant Gilead Sciences’ experimental COVID-19 drug remdesivir a special, speedy approval, despite it failing to show any definitive clinical signs that it works. The report, from Japanese news site Kyodo, could make Japan the first country in the world to approve the med, which was…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/post-abc-poll-coronavirus/2021/09/04/94add942-0cde-11ec-aea1-42a8138f132a_story.html …Currently, just under 2 in 10 American workers say their employer requires people who come into work be vaccinated (18 percent). Among workers whose employer lacks a mandate, about 3 in 10 are unvaccinated. Asked what they would likely do if their employer imposed a mandate, 16 percent of that group say they would get…