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Flu Vaccine/ UpToDate
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…
Flu: What are the Stats?/ CDC data
The 2010-11 flu season is now over. Where do we stand in terms of vaccination and deaths from flu? The influenza vaccine is said to have been a good match to the majority of strains that circulated during this flu season. One hundred two (102) pediatric deaths were reported to CDC from the entire US for the flu…
In depth discussion of anthrax case by Glenn Greenwald/ Salon
Glenn Greenwald (Salon) talks about the origins of this story. He covers the media response to the FBI’s case in 2008, when calls for an independent investigation came from … the editorial pages of The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal). Mainstream scientific sources were equally skeptical; Nature called for an independent investigation and…
China worries swine flu vaccine campaign faltering
BEIJING (Reuters) – “China’s vaccination campaign against the H1N1 flu strain is not proceeding as fast as it should be partly because people are needlessly worried about the safety of the vaccine, officials said on Friday…”
The Europeans showed chloroquine worked against SARS-1 in 2004. CDC confirmed their findings the next year
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006291X0401839X In vitro inhibition of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus by chloroquine Author links open overlay panelElsKeyaertsLeenVijgenPietMaesJohanNeytsMarc VanRanst https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.08.085Get rights and content Abstract We report on chloroquine, a 4-amino-quinoline, as an effective inhibitor of the replication of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in vitro. Chloroquine is a clinically approved drug effective against malaria. We tested…
Nature and NYT say Covid mRNA vaccine boosters are not necessary, despite the CDC push to start them in the absence of supportive data
Last week, live-blogging the ACIP meeting, I learned to my dismay that CDC wanted its advisory committee to sign off on frequent Covid vaccine booster doses–in the absence of supportive data! Perhaps the CDC was anxious to avoid data because the data suggest that boosters are unnecessary? Here are excerpts from a June 28 NYT article describing…