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U.S. doctors, minorities still wary of shots: official (Sibelius)/ Reuters
Men enter the Arlington Convention Center to receive their H1N1 flu vaccinations in Arlington, Texas November 24, 2009. Credit: Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi From Reuters: Doctors and minorities still have a dangerous mistrust of vaccines that became painfully clear during the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Monday… In…
Shameless, US insists UN report implicates Assad–except it doesn’t / UN
From the BBC: US and UK insist UN chemicals report ‘blames Syria’ The US, UK and France say a UN report confirming a chemical weapons attack in Damascus has vindicated their stance that Syria was to blame. The US and UK ambassadors to the UN said technical details showed only the regime could have been…
Scientists fear MMR link to autism/ MailOnline
UPDATE: This is a 2006 article. Sorry. Too bad we have to get our science from the Mail, but in the era of Conflicts of Interest, maybe it isn’t so strange that we read about the flip side of pharmaceuticals from media outlets that don’t rely on pharmaceutical company advertising to survive. New American research…
Study Prompts Canada to Delay Flu Shots/ WSJ
This Wall Street Journal article provides a fascinating glimpse into what I will call, for lack of a better term, scientific xenophobia. It suggests an unwillingness to grapple with important data originating from another nation, perhaps because the data suggest US public health professionals should consider veering from the federal flu vaccine strategy being followed….
How many H1N1 doses are being wasted?
Many reports in the past week have claimed that 71 million doses of H1N1 vaccine are being wasted in the US. Earlier reports, based on telephone surveys, said 70-80 million doses had been used already. The Wall Street Journal, quoting CDC offical Anne Schuchat, M.D., earlier claimed (along with other media outlets) that 251 million…
Ohio health official estimates 100,000 people in state have coronavirus/ The Hill
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/487329-ohio-health-official-estimates-100000-people-in-state-have-coronavirus A top health official in Ohio estimated on Thursday that more than 100,000 people in the state have coronavirus, a shockingly high number that underscores the limited testing so far. Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton said at a press conference alongside Gov. Mike DeWine (R) that given that the virus is spreading in the community in Ohio, she…



