Israel’s leaders sold the country to Pfizer, giving the company the medical records of everyone in Israel. Now Israel will be the first country to test booster doses, generating data so the rest of the world can follow. Is the information coming out of Israel accurate? Who knows? https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/coronavirus-delta-variant-is-50-percent-more-infectious-israeli-top-official-says-1.10068650 Israelis have found “evidence that there…
NPR tells us influenza vaccine comes in twelve flavors this year. You can pick 3 antigens or 4. With or without a squalene adjuvant? (Fluad is the first US vaccine to use the MF59 squalene adjuvant, though its manufacturer worked to get it into the US market for almost 2 decades.) High dose or regular strength? Made in…
Here is my live blog. I was trying to converse with another watcher at the same time–something I had not done before while live-blogging–and the result is more errors and typos than usual. Sorry. Authorizing vaccine for the 6 months up to 5 year group was never mentioned. Can it be that FDA is finally…
From MedPageToday: Maybe you will need those 6-monthly boosters Netanyahu promised if you lack natural immunity… “neutralizing activity in the older groups declined approximately 10-fold at 6 months from the peak 14 days after the second vaccine dose; in those 18-55, activity was down by roughly half. But activity levels in the older groups remained…
Dr. Petrovsky, of Flinders University, Australia, was asked his opinion on the origin of SAR-2 and wrote the following: “An extremely important but still unanswered question is what was the source of COVID-19 virus. While COVID-19 has close similarities to SARS and other bat viruses no natural virus matching to COVID-19 has been found in…