Why Is FDA Playing Politics with New Warnings on Hydroxychloroquine? Why Would they Put American Lives in Danger?

Excerpt:  By Jim Hoft Published April 27, 2020 at 8:36am 302 Comments Hydroxychloroquine has been used for decades as a prophylactic treatment against malaria for adults and children. It has been widely accepted as a safe way to prevent the disease for adults and children. Ever since President Trump mentioned the highly successful studies of hydroxychloroquine treatments ... Read more

Fact check: Hospitals get paid more if patients listed as COVID-19, on ventilators

Our ruling: True We rate the claim that hospitals get paid more if patients are listed as COVID-19 and on ventilators as TRUE. Excerpt:  Michelle Rogers USA TODAY Network The claim: Hospitals get paid more if patients are listed as COVID-19, and on ventilators Sen. Scott Jensen, R-Minn., a physician in Minnesota, was interviewed by "The Ingraham Angle" host ... Read more

WHO Accused of Conducting Vaccine Trial Without Participant Consent in Three African Countries

Full article:  https://gizmodo.com/who-accused-of-conducting-vaccine-trial-without-partici-1841939166   By  George Dvorsky 2/26/20 7:00PM Health officials prepare to vaccinate residents of the Malawi village of Tomali, where young children are test subjects for the world’s first vaccine against malaria. Image: AP A scathing opinion piece in the BMJ is accusing the World Health Organization of conducting a pilot program in … Read more

Where Did They Go? Millions Left Wuhan Before Quarantine

https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/where-did-they-go-millions-left-wuhan-quarantine SHANGHAI, CHINA – For weeks after the first reports of a mysterious new virus in Wuhan, millions of people poured out of the central Chinese city, cramming onto buses, trains and planes as the first wave of China’s great Lunar New Year migration broke across the nation. Some carried with them the new virus … Read more

The Long Shadow of the 1976 Swine Flu Vaccine ‘Fiasco’

Read entire article:  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-shadow-1976-swine-flu-vaccine-fiasco-180961994/ In the spring of 1976, it looked like that year’s flu was the real thing. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t, and rushed response led to a medical debacle that hasn’t gone away. “Some of the American public’s hesitance to embrace vaccines — the flu vaccine in particular — can be attributed to … Read more

Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens

pbio.1002198 Excerpt:  Andrew F. Read , Susan J. Baigent, Claire Powers, Lydia B. Kgosana, Luke Blackwell, Lorraine P. Smith, David A. Kennedy, Stephen W. Walkden-Brown, Venugopal K. Nair Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens Andrew F. Read, Susan J. Baigent, Claire Powers, Lydia B. Kgosana, Luke Blackwell, Lorraine P. Smith, David A. ... Read more

The history behind the chocolate hoax

Excerpt:  By Damaris Colhoun JULY/AUGUST 2015 aSHARE ON TWITTERbSHARE ON FACEBOOKEMAIL THIS STORY HOW MUCH CHOCOLATE DOES IT TAKE TO FOOL A JOURNALIST? Turns out not much. Earlier this month, Peter Onneken and Diana Löbl, a pair of documentary filmmakers from Germany, and John Bohannon, a biologist and science journalist based at Harvard, revealed that they ... Read more