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Maine pharmacists flag ivermectin prescriptions from people seeking drug for COVID-19/ Portland Maine Press Herald
https://www.pressherald.com/2021/10/01/pharmacists-flag-ivermectin-prescriptions/ The drug is intended to target infections caused by some parasitic worms in humans and animals, but many are seeking prescriptions because they believe it can ward off or treat COVID-19. BY EDWARD D. MURPHYSTAFF WRITER Maine’s Board of Pharmacy said this week that there’s been an increase in the number of prescriptions for ivermectin…
Seasonal flu risk–benefit/IBT Australia
Why so many reactions following seasonal flu vaccination? Some have suggested it is due to children who had had earlier, subclinical flu infections. Such silent infections would have left them with robust immunity. They may then have responded to vaccination with an excessive response, triggering fever, convulsions and potentially death. This idea remains a theory at…
Draining the swamp: moving in the right direction/ Reuters
From Reuters came a short piece on a new Executive Order, without much commentary to put it into perspective re how things worked in former administrations. President Donald Trump on Saturday put restrictions on the kind of lucrative lobbying gigs his White House aides and other administration officials can accept after they leave government. Trump,…
Former BMJ editor spells out irresistable conflict of interest for medical journal editors/ BMJ Blog
From the BMJ blog comes this gratifying discussion of an important paper in the PLOS: … an important and fascinating paper in PloS Medicine shows how editors can be exposed to dramatic conflicts of interest. The paper is suitably po faced, as is the accompanying editorial, but, as a blogger and ex-editor, I can spell out…
Turkey’s premier hospital mortality for Covid under 1%; NYC’s hospital mortality 20%/ BBC
Turkey started testing early, with rapid results. They did case-finding and quarantines, and they used hydroxychloroquine as soon as someone got sick. Mortality in a premier hospital in Turkey for Covid-19 is under 1%. Mortality in New York hospitals for Covid-19 cases has been reported here and here as 20%. The BBC goes into depth…
US and World Swine Flu Statistics/Xinhua and CDC
Xinhua, September 5, 2009: Total US swine flu deaths are at 593; this is confirmed by CDC. Total US hospitalizations are 9,079. California has had 144 deaths. New cases at 165 US universities totalled 1,640 last week. No college students have died. WHO reported total global deaths of 2,837. The MMWR mortality in children report…