California to require booster shots for health care workers

The people who are in a position to know the most about the Covid vaccines, the staff at the federal health agencies, are less likely to be vaccinated than the general public. Furthermore, none of the 3 agency heads (Tony Fauci, Peter Marks and Rochelle Walensky, sadly all MDs) were willing to perjure themselves, and…

from the UMinn’s CIDRAP: “… It will be several more years before we are able to wean ourselves away from egg-based vaccine, but we are committed to moving ahead with 21st century vaccine development,” Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a taped opening statement. Federal investments made since 2005 should improve…

Virus Res. 2014 Jun 12;189C:254-261. doi: 10.1016/j.virusres.2014.06.001.  A highly immunogenic fragment derived from Zaire Ebola virus glycoprotein elicits effective neutralizing antibody.  Wang Y1, Liu Z1, Dai Q2. In order to produce polyvalent vaccines based on single rVSV vector, we investigated the immunogenicity, antibody neutralizing activity, and antigenic determinant domain of Zaire Ebola‘s fragment MFL (aa 393-556) that contains furin…

From the LA Times blog: Since the outbreak this spring of the novel H1N1, public health officials have treated the new so-called swine flu as if it were a replay of the devastating 1918 Spanish flu, which claimed tens of millions of victims and was particularly devastating to people who were otherwise young and healthy……

 America’s COVID-19 Data Problem https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/97938 Tracking the pandemic in the U.S. has proven a task beyond the country’s capabilities, one that’s been defined by incomplete data and disjointed systems, FiveThirtyEight reported. Beginning with the federal government’s initial insistence on developing a CDC-made test that had contamination issues and took too long to roll out, data from testing…