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

From MEDSCAPE: Like all flu seasons, mortality in the elderly was highest from swine flu during the 2009-10 season Preexisting antibodies were common in the elderly:  present in 88% of those aged 90-99, present in 27% of those aged 79, and present in 4-5% in those younger than 60. Six studies from Canada consistently found…

Most Americans who got flu vaccine last year don’t need it again.  But CDC and manufacturers are confident of their maarketing prowess, and manufacturers are making 170 million doses for the US market.  Go figure.  From the Associated Press: ATLANTA (AP) — Vaccine makers said this month they plan to make a record amount of…

A federal appeals court in Cincinnati rejected the Biden administration’s request to move up deadlines in the legal challenge to its emergency shot-or-test rule that would accelerate consideration of lifting an order that froze the rule. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit didn’t explain why it turned aside the administration’s petition to…

Scientist’s Working Group on Chemical and Biologic Weapons  Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation  February 17, 2014  Introduction: The danger to world or regional public health from the escape from microbiology laboratories of pathogens capable of causing pandemics, or Potentially Pandemic Pathogens (PPPs) has been the subject of considerable discussion1,2,3,4 including mathematical modeling of the…

And why would Tedros declare a Public Health Emergency of international Concern (PHEIC) for moneypox?  Because $money [pox] talks, and that declaration enables WHO to call for more funding.   Turns out that the first PHEIC was declared in 2009 for the low severity swine flu epidemic. PHEICs were first defined in the International Health Regulations,…

From the Irish Herald: We need a jab inquiry The link between the Pandemrix swine flu vaccination and narcolepsy in at least 16 children has to be scrutinised. Manufacturers GlaxoSmithKline were indemnified by the State from any liability for side effects as the vaccine was rushed through. We need a full explanation from the Irish…