We seem to have turned the corner on this latest wave, with cases and hospitalizations trending down

From the Sept. 21 Newsday: Dozens of Long Island nurses – many from Stony Brook University Medical Center – plan to rally with health care workers from across the state next week in Albany to protest a state regulation that mandates they be vaccinated for swine flu or lose their jobs. The New York State…

No proof has surfaced to assign blame for Syria’s sarin attack of August 21.  The US government document that was supposed to lay out the proof was simply a litany of assertions, absent any evidence.  Robert Parry discussed the details, or lack thereof.  He points out that Bush’s Iraq war ‘dodgy dossier’ had a lot…

From CNN: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appears to be backing away from a theory he and President Donald Trump were pushing that the coronavirus pandemic may have originated at a lab in Wuhan, China… Yet he still wants to “punish” China.  What a blustering fellow he is, drunk on power, ignorant of facts (as are we all)…

According to Kalorama Information (which will sell you their research compilation for $1200): Makers of H1N1 vaccines reported sales of $3.3 billion in 2009, according to company reports reviewed for its title, “H1N1 ‘Swine Flu’ Vaccine Market Review.” Kalorama believes the contracting, production and distribution of this vaccine will be a model for future pandemic…

This story, detailed by David Willman in the LA Times (and blogged by me 4 weeks ago) has now been re-reported (in great detail for television) by CNN.  It certainly deserves plenty of scrutiny, especially after SIGA’s stock rose 32% yesterday, supposedly due to board member Fran Townsend’s denying company interference with the contract.  DHHS…

Healthcare is highly valued by our society, yet it seems that many of our pundits and politicians are willing to create a new healthcare system from whole cloth. In other words, let’s consider this or that experiment, and the winner will be the compromise melange that gets passed by Congress. (Definition of melange: a collection…