California to require booster shots for health care workers

The vaccine/bioterrorism industry is expert at making silk purses out of sows’ ears. Novartis, the company that failed to get its 50% share of swine flu vaccine out in a timely manner, and has a long history of vaccine failures, received a $400 million grant to open a vaccine plant in the US.However, the University…

Thanks to CDC for these weekly influenza stats

Written by Alan Cassels, a British Columbia drug policy researcher, via Lown Institute Weekly: “Normally, the flu vaccine is between 50 to 60 percent effective”— Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) How effective is the flu shot?    That’s an important question that generates many headlines across North America…

Most Americans who got flu vaccine last year don’t need it again.  But CDC and manufacturers are confident of their maarketing prowess, and manufacturers are making 170 million doses for the US market.  Go figure.  From the Associated Press: ATLANTA (AP) — Vaccine makers said this month they plan to make a record amount of…

1. Omitting one dose, and injecting the vaccine deeper into muscle was widely reported to reduce adverse effects. But only brief local reactions at the skin are reduced, as one might expect with a deeper shot. The occurrence of the more consequential systemic adverse events was “not significantly influence[d]” by route of administration. 2. Women…

Sasha Latypova did the first thirty minutes and I did the second thirty minutes. I unpack the new booster authorization and approval of the rollout.   Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech versions of the new boosters contain the old vaccine and a new vaccine that contains mRNA coding for a BA.5 omicron spike. Neither vaccine has had any…