We seem to have turned the corner on this latest wave, with cases and hospitalizations trending down

WHO’s Strategic Group of Experts Working Group on Avian Flu (H5N1) Vaccine is working on “evidence-based recommendations” for using up stockpiles of avian flu vaccine that are reaching their expiration date. From WHO’s website: “Facilitate a SAGE review and decision on potential evidence-based recommendations on the use during the current inter-pandemic period of: H5N1 influenza…

From the NY Times, Sept. 21, 2005 – Just as governments around the world are stockpiling millions of doses of flu vaccine and antiviral drugs in anticipation of a potential influenza pandemic, two new research papers published today have found that such treatments are far less effective than previously thought. “The studies published today reinforce…

Real data is important, and anecdotes are just anecdotal. Yet during the past 3 weeks I have been personally involved with 3 events that have me concerned. I am a doctor on an island of 13,000 people, where hundreds received swine flu vaccine. Coincidence 1: several hours after getting the swine flu vaccine, a man…

Reuters’ Sharon Begley has to be one of the very best science journalists in the US.  She always gets to the meat of the matter.  Here she gives us the highlights of what scientists said remains unknown about Ebola transmission, at an IOM meeting November 3.  The full article is below, and it confirms what…

The Boston bombing case was horrific and unexplainable, unpardonable.  Yet the public lacks much evidence about it and no trial has taken place. Where is the evidence the brothers made the bombs?  What is Dzhokhar’s side of the story?  Have you heard it?  One brother is dead and the other has been under wraps since…

Moderna data yield hope for better Covid boosters, but highlight complexity of figuring out how to give them/ STAT News  By Matthew Herper   April 19, 2022 https://www.statnews.com/2022/04/19/moderna-data-yield-hope-for-better-covid-boosters-but-highlight-complexity-of-figuring-out-how-to-give-them/ New data from Moderna offer hope that booster shots against Covid-19 could become at least somewhat more effective than they already are. But the data also point to how…