German Health Ministry admits one serious side effect per 5,000 doses, advises those suffering to seek care

Here is the letter from OMB detailing the Obama Administration’s objections to the Intelligence Authorization Act passed by the House on February 26, 2010. (Thanks to Steven Aftergood at the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists for posting it, and for his insightful discussion.)

One third of the Italian supply of swine flu vaccine (8 million doses) will be distributed mid November to mid-December. The other two thirds will be distributed after January 31, 2010. Italy is taking a Christmas vaccine break. They don’t feel the need to get everyone vaccinated by Halloween or Thanksgiving, thank goodness. How civilized….

<img width=”1″ height=”1″ src=”http://s.clickability.com/s?19=990&14=0&6=92807664&7=400599&18=0.3629032722800133″> From Helen Branswell at the Canadian Press: It might seem counterintuitive but it also appears to be true:  Parents with more education were less likely to get their daughters vaccinated against HPV during the first year of British Columbia’s free school-based program, a new study shows.   The finding of the study,…

Johns Hopkins is keeping track of COVID-19 cases internationally, in real time, here. There have been 51,171 recovered cases and 3,254 deceased, for a 6% mortality rate.  This number should drop, I hope considerably, as we begin to identify more asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic cases. Update 3/16/20:  Chinese mortality estimate is around 5.8%. One hopeful…

DHHS tells Bloomberg/WaPo it made a mistake about giving that Ebola drug contract to the anthrax vaccine manufacturer. Crayton HarrisonJul 16, 2015 4:40 pm ET (Source retracts statement cited in July 15 story.) “This release was sent in error as the contract has not been signed by all parties,” the agency said in a separate…

From 2003: Click here to learn about 3 unusual licensing decisions, which circumvented liability for injuries caused by the following drug and vaccines: Example 1: Pyridostigmine bromide (aka PB or NAPS tablets). Example 2: Smallpox vaccine. Example 3: Anthrax vaccine. “Fully licensed” for the first 520,000 military recipients