Dr. Julie Gerberding doesn’t want you to miss a dose: she ran CDC, now she is president of Merck Vaccines

Let’s do a back-of-the-envelope risk-benefit calculation on swine flu vaccine: In 2009-10, 44 Finns of all ages died of swine flu.  [With 5.3 million Finns, this is one death per 120,000 people of all ages.] About half the population of Finland received Pandemrix.  Had the vaccine been given before the pandemic struck (a near impossibility)…

One big contributor to ridiculously high administrative costs of medicine in the US is the federal government. Constantly changing federal rules seem to aim for complexity.  Compliance is nearly impossible for small medical practices, because Medicare changes its rules every few months. Doctors have to play by its rules, but it is very difficult to…

From an exclusive interview with the WSJ: BAGHDAD—Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ruled out the presence of any U.S. troops in Iraq after the end of 2011, saying his new government and the country’s security forces were capable of confronting any remaining threats to Iraq’s security, sovereignty and unity. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sat down for…

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 All the MSM covered it, which in itself is a magic trick. Maybe his voice will get through… Tickets ($5 so they weren’t scarfed up by Bots) were sold out. Security was maximal, and very serious. Loads of old friends attended, including doctors Pierre Kory, Ryan Cole and his wife, Robert and Jill Malone, Liz…

Today’s Science Magazine  describes how the NIH is seeking information on the specific SARS-Coronaviruses held at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) prior to the Covid-19 pandemic.  NIH had funded the Wuhan lab using the ‘non-profit’ EcoHealth Alliance (EHA,whose CEO Peter Daszac earned $400,000 yearly).  The complete role of EcoHealth Alliance has yet to be…