My interview with Mickey Zee on the Post-Woke podcast. 48 mins

The Capitol Hill rag Roll Call is just as flummoxed as I am over the Janssen/ Johnson and Johnson Covid vaccine being produced by Emergent BioSolutions.  The FDA told them to ask J and J about it, but J and J declined to answer.  Below is the first part of a long article that in…

The NEJM published a piece written primarily by Medicins Sans Frontieres clinicians who have worked in Liberia, describing the clinical course of Ebola patients, and concluding with the paragraph below, acknowledging the need to provide more comprehensive care than MSF was able to provide earlier in the outbreak. I believe we are now arriving at a…

I did not have to look far to find the source of that meaningless little factoid used by the Goshen hospital spokesperson and the British Columbia chief medical officer:  “Influenza is the most frequent cause of death from a vaccine-preventable disease in the United States.”   It was the very first sentence in a flu vaccine…

Read it yourself.  Thank Lee Fang at The Intercept for providing this transcript of Pfizer’s recent phone call with investors.  The quote I used in the title is from page 4: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20514141-pfe-usq_transcript_2021-03-11  In case you haven’t figured it out, the worse current vaccines do against viral variants, the more frequently new vaccines can be sold…

William Broad and Scott Shane have written a very useful NYT piece on the anthrax letters.  It discusses a new academic paper by Martin Hugh-Jones, Stuart Jacobsen and Barbara hatch Rosenberg, which explores the meaning of the tin and silicon found in the anthrax spore preparation of the anthrax letters. A decade after wisps of anthrax…

From tha Associated Press and Washington Post: GENEVA — An expert panel investigating the World Health Organization’s response to last year’s swine flu outbreak said Wednesday it wants to see confidential exchanges between the U.N. body and drug companies. The 29-member panel will seek WHO records and correspondence from before and after the H1N1 strain…