I will be live-blogging the FDA’s VRBPAC advisory meeting on new COVID booster vaccines for CHD all day on June 28

We are 2 months into the outbreak with H1N1 (swine) influenza, a variant not previously identified in humans. However, data suggest it was circulating unnoticed in pigs for years. It has two characteristics of concern: it spreads from person to person a bit more readily than older flu strains, and it seems to keep on…

Excerpts from another excellent Gardiner Harris piece: In a report expected to be made public on Thursday, Daniel R. Levinson, the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, said 90 percent of universities relied solely on the researchers themselves to decide whether the money they made in consulting and other relationships with…

From the Palm Beach Post: … While he is legally prohibited from revealing much of what he learned and many of the court documents are sealed, Weisser said he was stunned by the lack of security at the lab. In court papers, the government conceded that before the attacks, Fort Detrick didn’t have cameras to…

Below, I am including a complete article from the Daily Beast, because I meant to blog more about it when it came out but didn’t, and because it is extremely important in understanding the methods used by our public health agencies, especially CDC, to avoid collecting information, so they won’t have to deal with it. …

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/02/archdiocese-new-orleans-johnson-vaccine/ On Tuesday, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops urged Catholics to avoid taking the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine and to choose alternatives from Pfizer or Moderna instead because Johnson & Johnson used cells derived decades ago from an abortion to create the vaccine. The bishops’ recommendation follows a similar one from the Archdiocese of New Orleans last…