Here are my live blogs for the CDC’s ACIP meeting of Oct. 19-20

I happened to stumble across this Congressional website tonight. It includes my answers to additional questions posed by the Committee after I testified on GWS in July 2007. It also includes my Senate testimony on GWS of September 2007. However, of special interest is a list of statistical analyses and informal studies conducted by the…

December 24, 2001Dr. D.A. Henderson, Health and Human Services’s director of public health preparedness, said, “If this were a vaccine which… had no associated reactions [and] would work very well, that would be one thing, but this vaccine does have reactions associated with it, so there’s a negative side to it.”

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm64e1218a1.htm?s_cid=mm64e1218a1_w FIGURE 2. Drug overdose deaths* involving opioids,†,§ by type of opioid¶ — United States, 2000–2014 Source: National Vital Statistics System, Mortality file. * Age-adjusted death rates were calculated by applying age-specific death rates to the 2000 U.S. standard population age distribution. † Drug overdose deaths involving opioids are identified using International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision underlying cause-of-death codes…

OPINION   COMMENTARY https://www.wsj.com/articles/too-much-caution-is-killing-covid-patients-11606238928 Doctors should follow the evidence for promising therapies. Instead they demand certainty. By Joseph A. Ladapo Nov. 24, 2020 12:28 pm Fear and panic are central impediments to competent decision-making during a crisis. As Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations rise around the country, creating an atmosphere of crisis, political leaders are reaching for last spring’s…

From Eric Lipton in the Aug 9 NY Times: “There was a real threat, the former colleagues acknowledged, that the anthrax vaccine Dr. Ivins had worked on during that period, known as Anthrax Vaccine Absorbed or AVA, might be pulled from the market Most troubling were problems at the Michigan manufacturing plant, which had been…