US CDC and WHO helped wipe out COVID in Uttar Pradesh, India using ivermectin, zinc, Vitamin D3 and doxycycline last spring

Here is the first half of a wonderful piece by Professor Donald Light on the mess at FDA, which misguides the process of drug evaluation and approval.  The entire piece can be found here: A forthcoming article for the special issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (JLME), edited by Marc Rodwin and supported by the Edmond J….

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…

From the Infectious Diseases Society of America annual meeting comes this [WHO] discussion of how novel adjuvants affect the immune response, and how we can expect to see more of these adjuvants added to vaccines in the US: … Martin Friede, PhD, who heads the Technology Transfer Team within the Department on Innovation, Information, Evidence…

FDA’s VRBPAC advisory committee meets Tuesday, October 26 to advise FDA on the authorization of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine for children between 5 and 12 years old. One week later, On November 2-3, the CDC’s advisory ACIP committee will meet to approve a rollout of the vaccine for this age grooup. We anticipate that plenty of…

Nature Medicine ran a 3 page article that claimed to explain why the novel coronavirus is not a lab construct.  USA Today wrote a summary piece explaining it: “If someone were seeking to engineer a new coronavirus as a pathogen, they would have constructed it from the backbone of a virus known to cause illness,”…

And another story about an inexplicable contracting decision regarding a biodefense product, in today’s WaPo: Last year, a Silicon Valley start-up came close to producing what government scientists considered a breakthrough technology — a device the size of a ski boot that could test for tiny microorganisms at rapid speed, helping to safeguard the nation…