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Denmark suspends national Covid-19 vaccination programme till fall, and then what? / The Local
A Danish health worker prepares a Covid-19 vaccination in Aalborg in January 2021. The country suspended its general Covid vaccination programme on April 26th 2022. Photo: Henning Bagger/Ritzau Scanpix Noting that the epidemic was under control and that vaccination levels were high, the Danish Health Authority said the country was in a “good position.” “Therefore…
Hysterical Takedown of Bioethics and Bioethicists/ Richard John Neuhaus
Neuhaus got in so many great jabs in this piece I was nearly rolling on the floor. Though published in 2002, it is as timely today, and the players are the same, too! Enjoy. The Best BioethicistsThat Money Can Buy Richard John Neuhaus “A bioethicist is to ethics what a whore is to…
Peter Daszak. ‘Oh what a tangled web we weave/When first we practice to deceive.’ Sir Walter Scott was right
1. In February 2018 Science magazine ran a long puff piece about the Global Virome Project. Its nine authors included Peter Daszak and his associates Jonna Mazet and Dennis Carroll. Carroll is a former official at the CDC and USAID, an agency that funded Daszak extremely well. Carroll left USAID to found and lead the…
Walensky, asked about her decision to scrap the ACIP recommendation on boosters, gets way down with the weasel words
https://www.statnews.com/2021/10/07/cdc-director-defends-decision-to-overrule-expert-panel-on-covid-booster-shots-for-health-workers/ Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Thursday defended her decision to overrule an expert panel on whether health care workers and other frontline workers should be offered Covid-19 booster shots, saying it was based on how she would have voted, had she been able to cast a vote….
Jean Duley redux
Bloggers Larisa Alexandrovna (Raw Story.com) and Glenn Greenwald (Salon.com) beat the major press on Jean Duley’s background. Seems she has an extensive police record including two arrests for DUI since 2006 and a remote drug paraphernalia charge. I suspected as much, having read that she was involved in treating addicts with Suboxone. Many substance abuse…
As the midterms approach, Republicans club Dems using the Health Care Worker vaccine mandate/ The Hill
Healthcare workers comprise a huge chunk of employees. They are the only group for which a national COVID vaccine mandate had stood. Many are extremely unhappy about this mandate–especially when some states or employers have announced they must also get boosters. Facing close races in November and predictions that the Republicans will take over the…