Officials recall more swine flu vaccine/ SF Chronicle
In a previous post, I cited literature that showed the nasal vaccine had been only 29% effective in adults in a previous year, even when fully ‘potent.’
In a previous post, I cited literature that showed the nasal vaccine had been only 29% effective in adults in a previous year, even when fully ‘potent.’
Excerpts from Global Security Newswire: The U.S. Army should fine-tune its procedures for determining safety risks in its projects following slip-ups in plans for the new site of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md., a National Academy of Sciences committee said in a report issued Thursday (see GSN,…
And here is the URL for the leaked slide deck–it was hard to find. https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/documents/54f57708-a529-4a33-9a44-b66d719070d9/note/753667d6-8c61-495f-b669-5308f2827155.#page=1 These are CDC’s slides. They don’t always tell the truth. Occasionally they do. And here is an article giving you other interesting numbers from the CDC’s Provincetown data, which were released after the leak: CDC study shows 74% of people…
Today’s Guardian discusses a draft report by UK MP Paul Flynn on the European response to the swine flu epidemic. Titled “WHO accused of losing pubic confidence over flu pandemic,” it includes the following: In Britain, says Flynn, the discrepancy between the estimate of the numbers of people who would die from flu and the…
How the newly released US military files reveal an instruction to ignore detainee abuse by Iraqi authorities; what that meant on the ground; and just how far up the chain of command the order went, from the Guardian.
Why is the country practically bankrupt and mired in corruption? Can the parts of our economic culture that enable huge government giveaways be identified? We certainly don’t know about how most decisions are made at the federal level, nor do we have any idea how much money changes hands and how. But there are some…
My friend Mark Crispin Miller has urged me to be more specific about why I am concerned about the safety of swine flu vaccines in the US. In a nutshell: 1. Newness I am always concerned about new drugs and vaccines. A former FDA Commissioner, Dr. Jane Henney, once said she did not use drugs…