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More Novel Adjuvants for the Swine Flu stockpile
HHS Purchases Additional H1N1 Vaccine Ingredients–July 13, 2009 (Thanks to Bloomberg News) Manufacturer Bulk Vaccine Antigen Bulk Virus Concentrate/FFF Bulk Oil and Water Adjuvant Sanofi Pasteur $61,425,000 0 0 GSK $0 0 $71,400,000 Novartis $346,334,450 0 $343,810,470 CSL $0 0 0 MedImmune $0 $61,020,000 0 TOTAL $407,759,450 $61,020,000 $415,210,470 That means the Department of Health…
The FBI’s Anthrax Case/ NYT
From the February 27 NY Times … More problematic is the investigative work that led the F.B.I. to concludethat only Dr. Ivins, among perhaps 100 scientists who had access to the sameflask, could have sent the letters. The case has always been hobbled by a lack of direct evidence tying Dr. Ivins to the letters….
What do we know about omicron, vaccinations and recovered immunity? Here is what the NYT said on December 23
The story doesn’t hang together very well, but if you got two doses of vaccine AND you were also recovered from infection, you had pretty good protection, says the Times. https://www.nytimes.com/article/omicron-coronavirus-variant.html#link-5bd4faf7 How much do vaccines protect against an Omicron infection? Several studies indicate that full vaccination plus a booster shot provides strong protection against infection…
Log graph of what happens if you don’t immediately stop transmitting virus–you run out of everything and people will die in the streets
Eric Feigl-Ding@DrEricDing Europe and US are mostly all on the same path. Note log Y-axis (linear=exponential; steeper line is more exponential). Japan also has limited testing. Only SK, Singapore and HK have it under control or improving. #COVID19 Twitter Ads info and privacy
Americans in need of N95 masks go without so money could be spent on $2.8 billion sweetheart deal for anthrax vaccine manufacturer/ WaPo
A spectacular Washington Post article of May 4 connected the lack of protective respirators (aka N95 masks) with Emergent BioSolutions (the anthrax vaccine manufacturer). Emergent received incredible insider contracts from the current Assistant DHHS Secretary of Preparedness and Response (ASPR), Robert Kadlec, who early in life attended the Air Force Academy and DOD medical school,…
So much for the dread delta variant/ Public Health England
Here is what the government experts in the UK had to say last week about the delta variant. Below is my summary: 1. We think it is more transmissible that the initial Covid variant. However, since the original Covid variant was extremely transmissible, it is unclear how much difference this will make, especially in the…