Better Info on H1N1: Cidrap at U. Minnesota
Here is a compendium of very useful info on H1N1, both for clinicians and the public. It appears to be regularly updated. Cidrap has gathered its information from WHO, CDC and other sources.
In early January, Ireland’s Health Service Executive advised doctors to use the Pandemrix (GSK) brand of swine flu vaccine only in the event they ran out of seasonal flu vaccine. This is the brand linked to narcolepsy cases. Apparently that warning was not sufficient. On April 3 Ireland’s Health Service informed doctors that they would…
In light of the Eric Cantor defeat in Virginia’s Republican primary, that fact that more Nevada voters cast votes for a “None of the Above” option than for a candidate is interesting. Voters are fed up in both the east and west. From the Washington Post blog: “And the winner is — no one. More…
From the Telegraph: The safety of a swine flu vaccine is to be investigated by European drugs regulators (EMEA, the European Medicines Agency) after it was linked to a rare condition that causes people to fall asleep suddenly. The investigation has been prompted after health officials in Finland announced they were suspending the vaccination programme there…
The entire court filings can be found here. My statement begins on page 23, so if you go to this website, the charts from my testimony are included. STATE OF MAINE SUPERIOR COURT KENNEBEC, ss. CIVIL ACTION DOCKET NO. CV-21-158 COALITION FOR HEALTHCARE ) WORKERS AGAINST MEDICAL ) MANDATES, et al, )…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/dube-update-health-services-plan-1.6208975 The article claims 93% are fully vaccinated. I am skeptical of that number. I doubt that would lead to a staffing crisis. I could be wrong. My guess is 20-30%–Nass Quebec delays vaccine mandate for health-care workers by one month, fearing staffing crisis Risk of staff shortages ‘too high,’ health minister says, as deadline…
At the 12/2008 FDA-NIH meeting on how to study novel adjuvants, Novartis scientist (Novartis owns the MF59 adjuvant) Dr. Novicki made the following statement: “Carcinogenicity–we have done no testing for the carcinogenicity of MF59 adjuvant or any of our preventive vaccines. We haven’t done it and we don’t plan to.” (See page 391.) And if…