All you need to know about the WHO–Please use this handout
Finally a mainstream article (in the NY Times, no less) redefines the misunderstood notion of rationing and healthcare reform. David Leonhardt’s timely and important article deconstructs (I love that word; here’s one definition of it: textual analysis that can reveal hidden ideological assumptions) rationing. Here is a definition of rationing: the controlled distribution of resources…
NPR tells us influenza vaccine comes in twelve flavors this year. You can pick 3 antigens or 4. With or without a squalene adjuvant? (Fluad is the first US vaccine to use the MF59 squalene adjuvant, though its manufacturer worked to get it into the US market for almost 2 decades.) High dose or regular strength? Made in…
From today’s Independent: … Against a background death toll from seasonal flu of up to 500,000 [worldwide], the new H1N1 strain was invisible [18,036 documented deaths through May 9, per WHO]. Professor Ulrich Keil, a World Health Organisation (WHO) adviser on heart disease, said the decision to declare a pandemic had led to a “gigantic…
If you really want to get down in the weeds about how the FDA controls information and makes sure its advisory committees vote the way it wants them to, this is must reading. It is very long and very detailed, discussing some aspects of how FDA hid information about the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine from its advisers,…
This article from the Bucks County Courier Times doesn’t address how the 25 mcg. mercury-containing doses (in multidose vials) will be handled, since release into landfills and rivers is not safe or acceptable. Most swine flu vaccine used in the US was packaged in multidose vials, including a mercury preservative, with small stocks of single…
This study covered 365,000 vaccinated NY state children and over 900,000 unvaccinated children, aged 5-11, and it revealed in exquisite detail that the vaccine doesn’t work. No wonder CDC’s partner Twitter tried to stop people reading it. No one who understands what this study reveals would ever vaccinate their child. The fact that FDA decided…