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Healthcare deductible costs rose at 16x the rate of inflation since 2006/ NYT
A NYT editorial discussed healthcare costs last week using two simple graphs. In case you still have good insurance, take a look at what has happened to the rest of us. Over seventeen years, the cost of insurance premiums has risen at 6 times the rate of inflation. Over ten years, deductibles rose at 16…
Law chief orders probe into secret files on death of Dr David Kelly/ Mail Online
UPDATE: From the October 18 MailOnline: Ambulance chiefs face renewed pressure to explain the loss of a key medical record relating to the death of Dr David Kelly after the investigating police force said it had no record of ever having received the document. Bosses at South Central Ambulance NHS Trust were criticised last month…
CDC told the world in 2005 it had a cure for SARS. (Sorry I keep repeating this, but it is critically important and people don’t know it)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Canadian government knew in 2005 that chloroquine was almost certain to be effective against SARS (beta) Coronaviruses. Five CDC scientists and 3 Canadian scientists told the world about it in 2005 in a popular medical journal. In 2020 they failed to tell you, and our governments…
Nature Medicine publishes Scottish study in which unvaccinated pregnant women had worse outcomes when they got COVID than vaccinated women. The authors did not study the 95% of pregnant women without COVID to see what their outcomes were, although they had access to these data.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01666-2 The issue is not whether there is some vaccine efficacy for the first two shots, especially with the early variants—there is some efficacy. The vaccines provided good protection briefly, which lasted longer the younger you were, which began falling within weeks of vaccination. Unvaccinated pregnant women in this study from Scotland had more severe…
More monoclonal or polyclonal antibodies recommended for treating Ebola/ Reuters
This type of approach is what I recommended in my Congressional testimony in 2001, for many potential pathogens, following the anthrax letters. What are monoclonal antibodies? The human immune system takes apart microbial pathogens and manufactures antibodies to a variety of sites on the microbe, honing its response as the infection progresses. Nearly 40 years…
Frontline’s ‘Anthrax Files’ takes hard look at FBI role in suicide of Ft. Detrick scientist: Report asks if FBI overstated case against Frederick resident Bruce Ivins/ PBS Frontline
David Zurawik at The Baltimore Sun writes about tomorrow’s important Frontline story on Bruce Ivins and the anthrax letters. This will be the first episode. Nobody does investigative journalism on TV like Public Television’s “Frontline” — nobody, and week in, week out that includes “60 Minutes.” And Tuesday night at 9, the venerable series revisits…