My earlier posts on this case: highlights

While CDC has not committed to a strategy beyond Tamiflu (to which some viral strains in Hong Kong have resistance), Australia faces a major H1N1 outbreak, as the southern hemisphere winter just began. But mathematical modelling suggests the US has already experienced 1 million H1N1 cases. On May 17, Australia moved to a new national…

 https://www.nature.com/articles/ja201711.pdf Someone wrote this in 2017.  Some people thus knew ivermectin had antiviral properties.  In fact, the drug has all kinds of possibly miraculous effects.  It is just missing the important one:  patentability.  (It was patented but the patent expired in 1997.)  Recent research has confounded the belief, held for most of the past 40…

From US News and World Report: Relatively few cases reported, experts say, but that doesn’t mean a surge can’t happen… One barometer of flu activity, the percentage of visits to hospitals or doctors’ offices linked to influenza, also suggests a mild season so far. For example, just 1.4 percent of outpatient visits during the week…

According to HHS, BARDA “determined that none of the vaccine developers submitting proposals could meet the Project BioShield statutory requirements of having a product ready for licensure within 8 years. In response to this development, BARDA will modify its approach to the advanced development of a next-generation anthrax vaccine.” It is unclear why this happened,…

https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2021fwcfb6015.htm.   dated 9/27/21 Here is a description of the Fair Work Commission:  https://www.fwc.gov.au/about-us I misunderstood this document, which it seems is properly explained by Australia’s Channel 7 News. The document is a MINORITY decision, by the Deputy President of the Commisssion, regarding a decision made by the other two commissioners.  The Deputy President took a…

After decades of discussion, the most important step has been taken by FDA to reduce the emergence and spread of multidrug-resistant bacteria. From the WaPo: “We have the regulatory mechanisms, and industry knows that,” he said. “We also think things can be done voluntarily. We’re not handcuffed to the steering wheel of a particular strategy,…