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Making the unacceptable “legal” (in this case, indefinite detention without trial) via Executive Order (but it’s still unconstitutional)/ HuffPo
Bill Quigley (Loyola University Law Professor) and Vince Warren (both associated with the Center for Constitutional Rights) discuss Obama’s newest Executive Order: one designed to uproot the 5th Amendment’s requirement for due process and the 6th Amendment’s rights of the accused, including the right to a speedy trial. Here is their report on Huffington Post:…
CDC’s Weasel Words and Weasel Employees Force Flu Vaccinations on Healthcare Workers
In the last post, I explained that CDC was the source of the plan to investigate rates of healthcare worker flu vaccinations. CDC collaborates with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to use staff (and patient) flu vaccination rates to calculate hospital “quality” — and the “quality” number determines up to 4% of acute…
Cores Damaged at 3 Reactors/ WSJ
Partial meltdowns of three reactors and breaches of the containment vehicles are finally acknowledged by TEPCO on May 15. From the WSJ: Substantial damage to the fuel cores at two additional reactors of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex has taken place, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday, further complicating the already daunting task of…
Providing you background facts on smallpox and monkeypox so you can evaluate what you are hearing
You can relax now, says WHO, as it releases a clever statement to introduce the idea of mass monkeypox vaccination: The World Health Organization (WHO) maintains that the growing monkeypox outbreak remains “containable,” and that there’s no immediate need for mass vaccination against the orthopoxvirus; since May 7, a total of 131 confirmed cases and 106 suspected cases…
Doubt of anthrax suspect’s role resurfaces in lawsuit/ Palm Beach Post
Bob Stevens’ family’s attorney has filed papers disputing the role of Bruce Ivins (in a much delayed lawsuit against the federal government), regarding the wrongful death of Bob Stevens, a photo editor at the National Enquirer who died after exposure to an anthrax letter in 2001. From the Palm Beach Post: Maureen Stevens’ attorneys originally…
Experts Tell Congress We Really Need High-Containment Facilities for Ebola (as I’ve been saying)/ NBC
From NBC News: … Although the CDC initially said any U.S. hospital should be able to care for an Ebola patient, Gold (Chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical School, where 3 victims were treated) argued that it really often does require a special biocontainment unit. There are only four in the country: at Nebraska,…