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CDC: Flu Season Is Here Already With Over 6,900 Hospitalizations, 360 Deaths
The cumulative hospitalization rate for influenza this past week—the 42nd week of 2022—-has been higher than the rate for the 42nd week of any year since 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
FDA: Here’s Yet Another Blood Pressure Medication Recall For Cancer Concerns
This time the potential cancer-causing contaminant is Nitrosamine Drug Substance Related Impurity (NDSRI), N-Nitroso-Quinapril.
Is New Senate GOP Covid-19 Pandemic Origin Report More About Politics Than Science?
The report from the office of Richard Burr (R-NC) claimed that “the COVID-19 pandemic was, more likely than not, the result of a research-related incident.” But what evidence did the report actually provide?
USDA: Bob Evans Farms Recalling Over 7,500 Pounds Of Italian Pork Sausage
Here’s how to check if your sausage may have been contaminated and is part of the recall.
#COVIDIsAirborne #BringBackMasks Trend, Questioning CDC Director’s Tweet on Covid-19 Precautions
Folks on Twitter have wondered why the Biden Administration hasn’t been emphasizing face mask wearing and air filtration/purification more.
Robert Malone’s New Claims About Seasonal Flu Vaccines, Manufacturing, And Markets
Robert Malone, MD, MSc, who’s made a lot of questionable Covid-19 vaccine claims during the pandemic, asserted that people are being coerced to get the annual flu vaccine in order to “maintain warm base manufacturing in case something like 1918 ever ha…
CDC: Surge In Young Kids Hospitalized With Respiratory Illnesses Like RSV, Flu
Hospitalizations due to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections, influenza, and other respiratory illnesses are already pushing children’s hospitals to capacity in different parts of the U.S.
Novavax Covid-19 Booster Gets FDA Authorization, Does This Deserve More Attention?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, has also signed a decision memo “allowing Novavax monovalent Covid-19 boosters for adults.”
Tucker Carlson Incorrectly Claims CDC Mandating Kids Get Covid-19 Vaccine For School
On Carlson’s show, Dr. Martin Makary also leapt to some “kangaroo” conclusions about the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
New Lab-Made Covid-19 Coronavirus At Boston University Raises Questions
A preprint describes how a research team created a new hybrid version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that killed 80% of the mice that it had infected. But is this being misinterpreted?
