My earlier posts on this case: highlights

Data suggest that children may have been hospitalized for post-swine flu vaccination seizures at a rate 2-6 times greater than their rate of hospitalization for swine flu disease.  Data are lacking on other post-vaccination side effects that might also occur.  I suggest you read this short BMJ piece by authors Peter Collignan, Peter Doshi and…

 https://shabnampalesamohamed.substack.com/p/africa-objects-to-us-proposal-on?s=r Africa objects to US proposal on controversial IHR amendments Meanwhile India discovers irregularities in WHO financial audit Africa Day, 25 May, has made an impact. In a rare show of African power and solidarity, several African member states objected to proposed International Health Regulations amendments, discussed at the World Health Assembly 75 this week…

It is not unreasonable to conclude that surgical and cloth masks, used as they currently are being used (without other forms of PPE protection), have no impact on controlling the transmission of Covid-19 virus. Current evidence implies that face masks can be actually harmful. The body of evidence indicates that face masks are largely ineffective. …

Today, CDC admits a lab worker got ill from a salmonella strain being studied. But I cannot tell what the disease was.  Salmonella gastroenteritis?  Typhoid fever?  A complicated bloodborne infection that may affect the heart, joints, etc.? How long was the worker ill? Was this person spreading the infection via the oral-fecal route,  as did…

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…

Excellent discussion of what we know, don’t know, and may be assuming incorrectly–by Marc Lipsitch, PhD, professor at Harvard School of Public Health. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/opinion/coronavirus-immunity.html