Two senior FDA officials have resigned — “giants who helped bring us many safe and effective vaccines over decades of public service,” according to a former FDA scientist — reportedly in protest of political meddling in the work of the … Continue reading →
Would the course of Covid-19 in this country have been different if Medicare had covered routine dental exams and cleanings? Possibly. But the studies have not been done that could tell us with confidence, and they probably won’t be. Determining … Continue reading →
There has been a lot of noise regarding the news reports that Congressman Stephen Lynch tested positive even though he had received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine. There is nothing newsworthy there — here‘s why. Despite some clumsy reporting … Continue reading →
Merck announced today that it is abandoning two Covid-19 candidates that it had been working on. The Phase I trials showed poor stimulation of antibodies, both neutralizing and non-neutralizing, in their trial subjects. The company said it will focus efforts … Continue reading →
Many people do not want to be associated with anything that has to do with abortion. Of specific interest here is Covid-19 vaccines that involve use of human cells derived from an aborted fetus. Now, we should be clear that … Continue reading →
Late last September, a conservationist group called Shark Allies got the press riled up about the possibility that “half a million” sharks could be killed to obtain squalene for use in Covid-19 vaccine adjuvants. NPR covered it, National Geographic covered … Continue reading →
I spent about 50 years doing software development, and one constant was that management always reported that projects were going to be finished in less than half the time than they were actually going to take, even if all went … Continue reading →
