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Damn the Data! Full Speed Ahead
There are many federal advisory panels, often comprised of those with vested interests. This panel did as expected, calling for precipitous vaccine approval. The Wall Street Journal reports: In the U.S., a federal advisory panel said the FDA should move ahead to approve or license the new H1N1 vaccine without waiting to receive data from…
Most parents won’t have kids get H1N1 flu shots, study finds/LA Times
From the LATimes: In a poll of 1,678 U.S. parents conducted by the University of Michigan’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, 40% said they would get their children immunized against the H1N1 virus — even as 54% indicated they would get their kids vaccinated against regular seasonal flu.
Make your own mask, as good as an N95, and washable too/ Consumerlab.com
The following discussion comes straight from consumerlab, which is a subscription service. This is the best information I have found for producing a washable, highly effective mask that can protect both the user and everyone else nearby–Meryl Here is their August 2020 update. Question: How can I make a mask that is as good as…
80 year old woman improves on ivermectin in ICU, taken off ventilator, then new doctor refuses to continue it while she worsens
https://buffalonews.com/news/local/after-judge-orders-hospital-to-use-experimental-covid-19-treatment-woman-recovers/article_a9eb315c-5694-11eb-aac5-53b541448755.html “The patient’s son, Michael Smentkiewicz, said hospital officials had told him and his sister, Michelle Kulbacki, on Dec. 31 that their mother’s chance of survival – as an 80-year-old Covid-19 patient on a ventilator – was about 20%. He said doctors at the hospital also told the family that Smentkiewicz would probably be on…
White House Makes a Big Deal of New Heroin Efforts–But Says Nothing about Stemming the Flow or Why We’re Still at War in Narco-State Afghanistan
On March 29, 2016 the White House issued a press release on its new heroin initiative. The Washington Post described how much Obama proposed to do. The long list of fixes and new public-private partnerships address addiction treatment almost exclusively, with a sop to law enforcement. The 1 billion dollars spent, Obama said, will treat…
Reversible blindness in bilateral optic neruritis associated with nasal flu vaccine
Flu vaccines would be fine for everyone to take each year if the benefit exceeded the risk plus cost. The cost in a drug store to be vaccinated is about $25. No benefit can be demonstrated in those over 65 or in younger children, where 90% of flu deaths occur. (See several posts from earlier…