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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/17/lancet-covid-pandemic-failure-reforms/ “The ability of the public health system to identify cases, trace contacts, and isolate infected individuals can be overwhelmed in just a few weeks of uncontrolled community transmission,” the report says. Right, so you stop doing contact tracing when you know if doesn’t work. Instead, contact tracing was started after it was known to…
How much does vaccine efficacy drop over 6 months? The VA and CDC duke it out: whose data are better? Whose study was peer-reviewed? Who got published in Science magazine?
CDC is always finding ways to massage its data or use estimates instead of real numbers to “prove” the veracity of whatever narrative it is currently pushing. In this case it selected 5 VA Medical Centers and came up with numbers that are too good to be true. But I think CDC did not reckon…
CDC, NY and CA data from 30 million Americans proves that natural immunity provides 3 times the protection of vaccination against infection, and a slight benefit against hospitalization, contrary to claims by public health officials
As I was browsing CDC reports from January 2022 in the MMWR yesterday, I came across a study of cases and hospitalizations in the vaxxed and unvaxxed from the Departments of Health of California and New York, plus CDC scientist coauthors. There are several reasons why this paper is very important. The data came from…
F.D.A. Panel Votes to Restrict Avandia/ NY Times
Gardiner Harris @ the NY Times follows up on the FDA Avandia review: A federal medical advisory panel recommended Wednesday that Avandia, a controversial diabetes drug, should either be withdrawn from the market or have sales severely restricted because it increases the risks of heart attacks. The panel’s votes, taken after two days of intensive…
Certain Hip Replacement Failures Zoom, but Getting the Data Nearly Impossible/ NY Times
The following excerpts from today’s NY Times article point to serious failures of data collection, analysis, and commitment to safety at FDA. The failures follow lax, politically-driven regulations, which allow products to be licensed without data if they are substantially like other licensed products. There is no good guideline for how alike the products must…
Can it be? Study finds that college students who had been vaccinated against flu were more likely to excrete flu virus / Proceedings National Academy of Sciences
It is only one study. But it was carefully done, used interesting methods, and it tried to explore issues that have rarely been studied. Researchers from the University of Maryland studied students who had new symptoms of influenza to see if infectious flu virus spread during coughs, sneezing, or regular breathing. They looked at nasal…
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Tells the story in 2 minutes, Great!
I believe it was Paul Dukas, The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Apt music, nicely done.
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