My interview with Christine Dolan on how nothing about the Novavax vaccine is traditional

Thanks to Merrill Goozner: FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee meets on Tuesday, September 9. It will consider the safety and efficacy of an HPV vaccine for girls from GlaxoSmithKline called Cervarix.  In an earlier post, I noted that the safety of Cervarix (which includes the squalene-containing adjuvant ASO4) was controversial.  No US…

In light of the Eric Cantor defeat in Virginia’s Republican primary, that fact that more Nevada voters cast votes for a “None of the Above” option than for a candidate is interesting.  Voters are fed up in both the east and west.  From the Washington Post blog: “And the winner is — no one. More…

I do not have the background on this, but Rand Paul said that Kentucky’s governor had defied the legislature on the lockdown issue.  A Kentucky business brought suit against the Governor for the continued lockdown, and won. The judge ordered that the lockdowns would end at 5 pm Thursday, June 10.  We’ll see what happens….

The scope of this epidemic does not fit all the data we have been given. The Rzero number has to be greater than 2.2, much greater, to get so many cases so quickly in Wuhan and Lombardy, if the earliest case occurred in November-December, and the doubling time of the epidemic is 6 days.  The…

Israel National News reports below that new side effects are discovered when you vaccinate 2.5 million people at once with an experimental vaccine.  Funny, even before one Israeli was vaccinated it was reported in this blog on December 17 that the mRNA vaccines caused Bell’s Palsy. Don’t you think Pfizer and Moderna knew it too? What…

Not sure why this is still a subject for debate.  Animal models establish that Ebola can be transmitted via aerosol secretions under lab conditions.  The question remaining is how often this happens in humans. Maybe it does; maybe it doesn’t. Despite CDC protestations regarding airborne spread, the new guidelines for personal protective equipment issued by…