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My testimony to the Alaskan Senate Health Committee on COVID vaccine mandates and discrimination by vaccination status
March 1, 2022 Dear Chairperson and Members of the Senate Health and Social Services committee: Thank you for allowing me to present some of the latest information on COVID vaccinations, made public yesterday by New York’s Department of Health and by the United Kingdom’s Department of Health and Social Care, today. The data from over 365,000 children…
Overcounting Covid hospitalizations: Stanford review finds 45% of 117 pediatric “Covid hospitalizations” were not hospitalized for Covid
Four things we know of probably helped drive up the number of hospitalizations coded as due to Covid-19. One was the payment of considerably more funds by Medicare for a hospitalization coded with a Covid DRG than for a comparable illness. Two was an extra federal payment to hospitals that met a certain threshold of…
What a public health agency should be doing now for COVID-19
1. Diagnostic information. Describe the specific features of the disease in the US (symptoms and signs) so doctors will be able to clinically distinguish most COVID-19 cases from other respiratory infections like colds, influenza, pneumonias, allowing them to isolate, quarantine, treat respiratory infections more sensibly. CDC and NIH say they will publish articles on this…
Why Americans Don’t Trust Vaccine Makers: My Op-Ed in the Bangor Daily News, 3/28/19
https://bangordailynews.com/2019/03/28/opinion/contributors/why-americans-dont-trust-vaccine-makers/ Why Americans don’t trust vaccine makers George Danby | BDN By Meryl Nass, Special to the BDN • March 28, 2019 8:39 amUpdated: March 28, 2019 8:53 am Trust in the pharmaceutical business hit a low in 2018. Only 38 percent of those Americans polled by the Edelman Trust Barometer said they trusted the industry. Some of the reasons for…
Drug watchdog halts injections after adverse reaction in patients/ Australian
From the Australian: THE drug regulator has told GPs to stop giving patients a second dose of a vaccine that protects against pneumococcal disease, after more than 80 Australians suffered severe reactions, including severe swelling and abcesses. The Therapeutic Goods Administration said it was investigating what could have caused 178 reports of reactions to the…
MONEY Pox May 28. I explain why the Daily Mail “everything you need to know” claims are unsupportable
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10826157/Q-deadly-monkeypox-cure-treated-worried-be.html SEE MY COMMENTS IN BOLDED BLUE–NASS EVERYTHING you need to know about monkeypox: Strain ‘transmits through sex’ and is about as deadly as the Wuhan Covid variant — but a vaccine does exist Seven cases in UK could be tip of iceberg as health chiefs hunt for common link First time ever spreading in…