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Vaccine Is On Its Way, But Public Still Wary. Swine Flu Campaign Faces Key Barriers: Unease, Ambivalence
Excerpts from the Washington Post: As the federal government launches the most ambitious inoculation campaign in U.S. history, several surveys indicate the public is decidedly ambivalent. “Safety is our top priority,” said Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. “What I want people to know is that no corners…
Nineteen years ago, I warned of the broad power grab that proposed legislation would bring when a pandemic or bioterrorism was declared. We are now living through the results of this usurpation of the citizens’ authority.
https://web.archive.org/web/20030205134856/www.redflagsweekly.com/nass/2002_april08.html The Model Emergency Health Powers Act Creates Its Own Emergency THIS IS NOT A HEALTHY PIECE OF LEGISLATION Meryl Nass, MDApril 8, 2002 – One year ago, the Centers for Disease Control began negotiations for a model piece of legislation that would help states deal with a bioterrorism epidemic. Why focus on the…
DPT vaccine: Is your child at risk from unvaccinated children?/ CDC
Let’s start with tetanus, the disease we think of when scratched with something rusty or dirty, and develop an abscess. This is a terrible illness, because tetanus bacteria produce a nerve toxin that takes months to recover from. First, how much tetanus disease is there is the US? Second, does it spread from person-to-person? There are…
Alex Berenson today on Pilots not showing up for work
Get ready for turbulence ahead. Yesterday American Airlines had almost 300 of its flights canceled, almost 10 percent of its total schedule, far more than ANY other carrier in the United States (Southwest remains second), and another 673 delayed. It is no doubt purely coincidental that I have heard from multiple pilots at American this…
217 Congress members who voted NOT to rein in the NSA’s phone spying dragnet received double the defense industry campaign contributions as those who voted to rein in/ WIRED
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Howard McKeon, (R-California), speaks to reporters following a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, May 21, 2013. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta From Wired: An excerpt, but suggest you read the whole story and see where your rep fell. The numbers tell the story — in votes and…
The ACIP members sleepwalked through their meeting and voted unanimously in favor of vaccinating all comers aged 5-11. My live blog is below.
merylnass:The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is CDC’s advisory committee that determines which groups should receive vaccinations merylnass:Dr. Chen acknowledged his conflict, being paid by Emergent Biosolutions, which makes the J and J vaccine for the US and the anthrax, smallpox, typhoid and cholera vaccines. It is a famously crooked company. The FDA stopped them…