Conflicts of Interests or Crooked Deals with Taxpayer Dollars? Do they make Democracy a pipe dream?

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…

 The vaccine-induced protection provided by Covid vaccines starts fading within months. In late July, Israel’s Minister of Health said vaccine protection had dropped to 39%.  It is not preventing severe illness in Israel and the UK either, though the US CDC changed its collecting methods for breakthrough cases on May 1 to disguise this fact….

Why is the country practically bankrupt and mired in corruption? Can the parts of our economic culture that enable huge government giveaways be identified? We certainly don’t know about how most decisions are made at the federal level, nor do we have any idea how much money changes hands and how.  But there are some…

 The Superiority of Natural Immunity to SARS-CoV-2: Introduction The public health establishment has been claiming that people who’ve recovered from SARS‑CoV‑2 infection still need to get a COVID‑19 vaccine because natural immunity is inferior, but that is a lie. https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/2021/09/02/the-superiority-of-natural-immunity-to-sars-cov-2-introduction/   The Official Ignorance of Natural Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 To push the political agenda of…

Excerpts from this Aug 15, 2009 story from the AP: In Europe, Glaxo is testing vaccines with an adjuvant, a chemical compound used to stretch a vaccine’s active ingredient and boost the body’s immune response. In Canada and the United States, Glaxo is testing vaccines both with and without adjuvants. Neither country has ever licensed…

I have been talking about how one might improve clinical care of Ebola patients, and the need for trials to identify the best treatments, best empiric iv fluids, etc.  This is necessary both to improve survival rates and also to give Ebola patients a reason to come to Ebola treatment centers, which many perceive to be…