We seem to have turned the corner on this latest wave, with cases and hospitalizations trending down
I have been referring to these slides all week. Today they “refuse to load”: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2021-06/03-COVID-Shimabukuro-508.pdf But although one commenter said they could not find it on the wayback machine, another reader did find a link to the June 23 capture of the slides by the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20210623151109/https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2021-06/03-COVID-Shimabukuro-508.pdf
From the LA Times blog: Since the outbreak this spring of the novel H1N1, public health officials have treated the new so-called swine flu as if it were a replay of the devastating 1918 Spanish flu, which claimed tens of millions of victims and was particularly devastating to people who were otherwise young and healthy……
Freedom of Speech must never again be shuttered, trampled on or blasphemied as the crime of “Misinformation, Disinformation or Malinformation” Judge Doughty used 721 footnotes. He must have amazing young clerks. And on page 3 the good Judge included the following quotes to remind us why July 4 and our nation’s principles are so important…
Hat tip to Dr. Mercola for this tidbit. Is this the dirty secret of measles outbreaks in the USA today? That many cases are actually due to vaccines? In 2016 the following paper was published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, authored jointly by staff from the Canadian Public Health Agency and the US CDC. …
And another story about an inexplicable contracting decision regarding a biodefense product, in today’s WaPo: Last year, a Silicon Valley start-up came close to producing what government scientists considered a breakthrough technology — a device the size of a ski boot that could test for tiny microorganisms at rapid speed, helping to safeguard the nation…
The Trump administration arranged on March 28 for 30-60 million tablets of hydroxychloroquine and certain (unapproved, unlicensed) chloroquine tablets to be donated by manufacturers to the National Strategic Stockpile (NSS) under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). The official who signed the EUA is the FDA’s Chief Scientist, Denise M. Hinton. Denise Hinton is a nurse with a master’s degree,…