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Holy moly, it’s hard getting swine flu vaccine to people who might need it overseas/ NY Times
WHO’s Dr. Fukuda still isn’t making sense, only now he is discussing WHO’s work getting vaccine to poor nations. Swine flu cases began falling rapidly in the US in October. Countries have been trying to give away much of their vaccine stockpile since December. Yet WHO has only managed to get vaccine to two countries….
Does a leopard change its spots? CDC grabs the headlines with positive news about monkeypox vaccine, just before the truth outs
2 days later the JAMA publishes better data questioning its benefits. CDC never tells us what its own monkeypox vaccine trial in Congo learned about the vaccine. And always admits…nothing Meryl Nass Oct 3 STAT in an October 3 email only: “Last week [September 28] the CDC released heartening preliminary data on how much protection people who…
The emperor is marching around buck naked/BMJ
The validity and quality of research underpin the entire research enterprise worldwide. However, a number of studies have shown that many researchers take “shortcuts” and that perhaps 1-3% of research is grossly false, fitting into the category of research misconduct. Research misconduct has been defined in US federal law as fabrication, plagiarism and/or falsification. Identified…
GPs must return flu vaccine over narcolepsy fears/ Independent
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…
CDC anthrax story keeps getting weirder
Latest update claimed that CDC scientists put anthrax into a chemical bath to inactivate it for 24 hours, but after only ten minutes took out a sample for plating and culturing to determine if viable spores remained. They failed to plate the anthrax that was transferred, after 24 hours in a chemical bath. And it…
1300 cases of vaccine-related brain damage compensated in US courts/ CBS News
From CBS News in September: … occasionally, vaccines cause injury or death. Very rarely, patients are left with what’s known as “encephalopathy”, the medical term for brain damage. In fact, CBS News has found nearly 1,300 cases in which vaccine-related brain damage has been compensated in court over the past 20 years. The debate over…