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On compulsory flu vaccinations for medical personnel /Canadian Medical Association Journal
Dr. Flegel, a professor of medicine and senior associate editor of the CMAJ, last week weighed in to support compulsory flu vaccinations on the basis that the following was met: “… there must be an outbreak of serious illness; immunity levels must be low; the vaccine must be effective, safe and available; and vaccine uptake must be low.”…
CDC’s flu stats for this week/ CDC
From CDC’s Fluview:
New review of anthrax case discussed by review committee vice chair, Stanford bioterrorism expert
David Relman, vice chair of the National Academy of Science committee that reported on the FBI’s anthrax letters research last week, did some clearer speaking (compared to the committee report and his statements at the NAS press conference on 2/15) about the committee’s findings for a press release from Stanford University, where he is a…
Costly program with a shady past // Sickening results
Deborah Rudacille of the Baltimore Examiner has two more excellent articles exploring the underside of anthrax vaccine; its manufacturer Emergent Biosolutions (formerly named Bioport); and how the anthrax attacks provided life support to both the vaccination program, which was about to be cancelled, and to Emergent, which produced only one product: anthrax vaccine. Exhaustively researched,…
Swine Flu: One killer virus, three key questions/ Nature
Nature (Brendan Maher & Declan Butler) report from three laboratories scrutinizing the pandemic flu virus.This is an interesting article about basic research on the swine flu virus at CDC Atlanta, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY, and INSERM at Lyon. Plenty of background as in a Laurie Garrett story, but no amazing new insights.
“The Key to Defeating COVID-19 Already Exists. We Need to Start Using It”/ Newsweek/ Harvey Risch, MD, PhD, Yale professor of epidemiology
The following is the text of Professor Harvey Risch’s opinion piece in yesterday’s issue of Newsweek. As professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, I have authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and currently hold senior positions on the editorial boards of several leading journals. I am usually accustomed to advocating for positions within…