VA to Reconsider Benefits for Ill Gulf War Vets/ WP

I have to give the WHO editors kudos for being brave enough to commission commentaries on WHO’s pandemic planning. Peter Doshi wrote about WHO’s waffling over the definition of pandemic, which morphed into a meaningless definition that allowed even the common cold to be called a pandemic, since severity was missing from the definition. Bonneux…

Until Stew Peters asked me about the possibility of being locked up on a psychiatric ward, it had honestly never occurred to me that such a thing could happen. Which just goes to show how much in denial I could be.  Because I happen to know a cardiologist in Switzerland, Thomas Binder, who got locked…

 https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/risk-of-nurses-leaving-too-high-to-mandate-vaccine-says-ballad-health-ceo.html Many healthcare workers are vaccinated against COVID-19, but others are refusing to do so as part of their employers’ requirements. As a result, hospitals and health systems have lost employees, and one healthcare executive said a mandate could cost his 21-hospital system too many nurses. “We have about 6,000 nurses in our system,” Alan…

The feds have done a lot right in terms of swine flu vaccine production. While they are receiving criticism right now, it’s only fair to note the things that have been done well. At the beginning of the epidemic, with lots of deaths in Mexico, the government decided to procure enough vaccine for all who…

Only companies and individuals dealing with “Covered Countermeasures” have their liability waived.  Below is the definition of a covered countermeasure. For a drug or vaccine to be a covered countermeasure, it has to be designated as an Emergency Use Authorized product.  Licensed products, being used for their licensed indication, are not permitted to be authorized…

From Jerry Markon at the Washington Post: A panel of prominent scientists is casting new doubt on scientific evidence that was a key part of the FBI’s case against Bruce E. Ivins, the deceased Army scientist accused of carrying out the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks. The National Research Council, in a report issued Tuesday, questioned…