My interview with Alison Morrow

From UpToDate, the highly regarded online textbook of medicine, on flu vaccine: It has been difficult to demonstrate an improvement in survival after influenza vaccination in elderly patients in randomized controlled trials because mortality is a rare end-point. The systematic review cited above found a significant reduction in death from influenza or pneumonia [46], but…

https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/2022/01/01/louisiana-judge-blocks-another-biden-covid-vaccine-mandate-head-start/9067347002/ A Louisiana federal judge on Saturday blocked President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for the Head Start program in 24 states. It’s Louisiana Western District Judge Terry Doughty’s second injunction against a Biden vaccine mandate. The first blocked a shot requirement for health care workers where government insurance is accepted. The Supreme Court will hear…

The Washington Post calls for Congress to perform a definitive investigation of the anthrax letters attacks, adding to the impact of the NY Times’ editorial asking for the same 3 days earlier: BRUCE E. IVINS has been dead for three years, but questions still abound about whether he carried out the 2001 anthrax attacks that…

1.  A significant number of healthcare workers (HCW) are already immune to new flu strains, due to exposures from previous years, crossover immunity, and high levels of exposure.  Thus a Spanish study found that 25% of its healthcare workers were already immune to swine flu prior to the 2009 epidemic.  Vaccinating those with preexisting immunity…

 The WaPo did a hatchet job on Kamala Harris today.  They didn’t really have much to go on, besides 4 staff members who are leaving. But they managed to get in a “bully” quote, say she burns through staff, she won’t read her briefing books and then blames staff for not briefing her. They managed…

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