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

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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

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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

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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’

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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

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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

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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

Secret Cold War tests in St. Louis cause worry

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Full Article:  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/secret-cold-war-tests-in-st-louis-cause-worry/ October 3, 2012 / 9:58 PM / AP ST. LOUIS Doris Spates was a baby when her father died inexplicably in 1955. She has watched four siblings die of cancer, and she survived cervical cancer. After learning that the Army conducted secret chemical testing in her impoverished St. Louis neighborhood at the … Read more

Reflections on the 1976 Swine Flu Vaccination Program

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https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/1/05-1007_article Abstract In 1976, 2 recruits at Fort Dix, New Jersey, had an influenzalike illness. Isolates of virus taken from them included A/New Jersey/76 (Hsw1n1), a strain similar to the virus believed at the time to be the cause of the 1918 pandemic, commonly known as swine flu. Serologic studies at Fort Dix suggested that … Read more