Ebola is killing 60-70% of those affected, even with treatment. Manufacturers say it will take quite a while to produce sufficient supplies of a vaccine, and that bulk manufacturing will only begin after one of several vaccine candidates is chosen. This makes no sense. The US government spent $440 million to help 3 companies develop…
Professor David Salisbury, the Director of Immunisation for the UK Department of Health, wrote to colleagues/stakeholders on March 16 suggesting that routine pneumococcal immunisation in the over-65 age group be ended, and asking for their views before making a final decision on the program. Ending routine vaccinations in the elderly is the recommendation of the…
It’s probably a coincidence. Like all those California fires. It got extremely hot, like the Sahara Desert, in British Columbia. And then there was a wildfire. There seems to be nothing left of Lytton, B.C., where Dr. Charles Hoffe worked as a family practitioner for the past 28 years. He began speaking out when his…
Potential vaccine recipients are very fortunate that Sheryl Gay Stolberg is still on this beat at the NY Times, after twenty years. Emergent BioSolutions is a biodefense boondoggle barely pretending to be a pharmaceutical firm. No one in their right mind would want to be injected with one of their products. A friend reminded me…
In a prior post (titled “Shameless manipulation!“) I explained a variety of ways CDC can manipulate the Covid statistics. It seems they may be using at least one of these ways to crank up the number of new cases. From today’s Washington Post come these comparisons of the 7-day averages for this week and the…
Let’s start with tetanus, the disease we think of when scratched with something rusty or dirty, and develop an abscess. This is a terrible illness, because tetanus bacteria produce a nerve toxin that takes months to recover from. First, how much tetanus disease is there is the US? Second, does it spread from person-to-person? There are…