Over 200 Scientists & Doctors Call For Increased Vitamin D Use To Combat COVID-19

From infectious disease MD Judith Stone at Scientific American comes this comprehensive look at what is behind the push to keep buying anthrax vaccine and even give it to children: In my last post, we began to play “Follow the Money” to better understand the history of the anthrax vaccine and the current proposal to…

So much for the scary death rates. Ignore mortality rates of 1%, 10% and all the other numbers plucked from thin air.  From Stat: Pressed yesterday, a WHO official said she didn’t think the outbreak outside Africa would lead to a pandemic, Reuters reported. “We don’t know but we don’t think so,” Rosamund Lewis said….

I will be live blogging the next ACIP meeting on July 19, 2022. The federal agencies seem to be gun shy now–they won’t even announce what the meeting is about!  Just that it has to do with adult vaccines.  We must be scaring them.  So we will shine more light on them.  Please tune in. …

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…

Very nice summary article by Helen Branswell regarding assumptions scientists have made about influenza, and how many of these assumptions have had to be discarded, as swine influenza furnished plenty of surprising facts.

The following is the text of Professor Harvey Risch’s opinion piece in yesterday’s issue of Newsweek. As professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, I have authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and currently hold senior positions on the editorial boards of several leading journals. I am usually accustomed to advocating for positions within…