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White House to SHARE its Emergent BioSolutions, unusable Astra-Zeneca vaccine with other nations
From today’s WaPo: Of Americans not yet vaccinated, fewer than 1 in 4 people said they would be willing to get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, a Washington Post-ABC News poll found. Confidence in the other two vaccines remained high. Emergent Solutions, which has been beaten and bloodied by the Washington Post and NY Times over the…
Polish PM: Poland not buying swine flu vaccination unless it has been properly tested/ Canadian Press
Funny that I was only able to find one US news source (a Texas TV station) that carried this AP story. From the Canadian Press: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Friday that his government won’t buy vaccines for swine flu that have not been properly tested or from producers who won’t take responsibility for…
Nature Medicine publishes Scottish study in which unvaccinated pregnant women had worse outcomes when they got COVID than vaccinated women. The authors did not study the 95% of pregnant women without COVID to see what their outcomes were, although they had access to these data.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01666-2 The issue is not whether there is some vaccine efficacy for the first two shots, especially with the early variants—there is some efficacy. The vaccines provided good protection briefly, which lasted longer the younger you were, which began falling within weeks of vaccination. Unvaccinated pregnant women in this study from Scotland had more severe…
Monkeypox name change due to Biden administration–not African nations–to “reduce stigma and racism.” New cases down to 5% of the new case rate in August
The Biden administration pushed the WHO to change the name of monkeypox to reduce racism. Hello? Are we stigmatizing monkeys? https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/who-lands-on-new-name-for-monkeypox.html The World Health Organization will rename monkeypox “MPOX” in an effort to destigmatize the virus amid growing pressure from senior Biden administration officials, Politico reported Nov. 22. The name change could be announced as…
Mike Yeadon interview with Willem Engel on the pandemic, April 5
Below is a quick summary of Yeadon’s thoughts. Here is a link to his April 5 interview.
Walensky, asked about her decision to scrap the ACIP recommendation on boosters, gets way down with the weasel words
https://www.statnews.com/2021/10/07/cdc-director-defends-decision-to-overrule-expert-panel-on-covid-booster-shots-for-health-workers/ Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Thursday defended her decision to overrule an expert panel on whether health care workers and other frontline workers should be offered Covid-19 booster shots, saying it was based on how she would have voted, had she been able to cast a vote….