In Search of the Anthrax Attacker, February 2002
A friend put this article into HTML and added some links to the references. I think it is valuable background for understanding the letters case.
And another story about an inexplicable contracting decision regarding a biodefense product, in today’s WaPo: Last year, a Silicon Valley start-up came close to producing what government scientists considered a breakthrough technology — a device the size of a ski boot that could test for tiny microorganisms at rapid speed, helping to safeguard the nation…
50 talks! It takes 3 days to watch them all.
Do you ever get the feeling that no matter what the news, the punchline is always “get vaccinated”? In this case, the killed polio vaccines used in the US are less effective than the live vaccines (which are cheaper) but the cheaper vaccines can revert to virulence and be spread through fecal-oral contact (swimming pools,…
PHARMACOVIGILANCE: the practice of monitoring the effects of medical drugs after they have been licensed for use, especially in order to identify and evaluate previously unreported adverse reactions. Pages 34-35 of the FDA review of Pfizer’s data for the 5-11 year olds provides the pretense of truly caring about identifying and quantifying adverse events from…
I will be live blogging the next ACIP meeting on July 19, 2022. The federal agencies seem to be gun shy now–they won’t even announce what the meeting is about! Just that it has to do with adult vaccines. We must be scaring them. So we will shine more light on them. Please tune in. …
The problem of highly restricted testing in the US The COVID-19 virus is quite deadly (mortality appears to be between 2 and 10% as discussed in my last post) though since we don’t know how many asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic cases there are, we still can’t be sure of this. Why don’t we know the…