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Herd Immunity Is Near, Despite Fauci’s Denial/ WSJ
His estimate that it’ll take a 70% to 85% vaccination rate ignores those who have already been infected. by Marty Makary, MD Anthony Fauci has been saying that the country needs to vaccinate 70% to 85% of the population to reach herd immunity from Covid-19. But he inexplicably ignores natural immunity. If you account for…
How is it possible that Rochelle believes in the sausage when she oversees the sausage-making machinery?
For Immediate Release Monday, October 31, 2022 Contact: CDC Media Relations (404) 639-3286 Update on CDC Director and COVID-19 CDC Director Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky experienced mild symptoms from her recent COVID-19 infection, completed a course of Paxlovid, and, after a period of isolation, tested negative for the virus. On Sunday,…
NY/NJ/IL impose health care worker quarantine after NYC doctor and unidentified heallthcare worker at Newark Airport hospitalized for potential Ebola/ WaPo
A quarantine will help stop cases appearing in the US in the near-term, but may mean that fewer medical professionals will volunteer to work in Africa, making control of Africa’s epidemic harder, thus making things worse for the US in the long-term. (Only 0.5% of MSF staff or less have developed Ebola.) From today’s WaPO:…
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….
Mandates, wow. Look what can be accomplished when the president lacks a brain/ NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/29/us/politics/biden-vaccine-mandates.html “If you want to do business with the federal government, get your workers vaccinated,” the president said bluntly… Numerous businesses — including Netflix, Saks Fifth Avenue, The Washington Post, Ascension Health, Lyft, Google and Morgan Stanley — all announced get-tough policies that require their workers to get shots as a condition of employment…”
Vaccine Delays: limited info on the problems/Science Insider
From Jon Cohen and Martin Enserink, excerpts: For proprietary reasons, Lurie would not name the delay issues at each manufacturer, but said “one company was just really overoptimistic” in its delivery predictions to HHS. Initially, all of the makers of inactivated vaccine had trouble with the “potency assay” used to ensure that 15 micrograms of…