A crucial March meeting of vaccine advisors to the Food and Drug Administration has been canceled without explanation, a member of the advisory panel told CNBC on Wednesday. ... CDC data shows the flu has caused up to an estimated 910,000 hospitalizations since October, which puts the season on track to be the most severe in at least a decade. ...
Reported here.
The barbarians are inside the gates.
Sorting for the 100 largest flocks of egg-layers affected by H5N1 bird flu since 2022 which have had to be destroyed, as of this morning I count in excess of 21 million chickens destroyed to stop the spread so far in 2025 alone.
COVID-19 in national US wastewater analysis:
12/28/24: 04.75
12/30/23: 13.28
12/31/22: 10.99
1/1/22: 17.17
Oct 15, 2022: 3.38
Oct 14, 2023: 3.81
Oct 19, 2024: 1.94 (low, approaching minimal)
Reported on Friday, October 11th, 2024:
I couldn't believe it when I saw it, but it's true.
The pandemic emergency ended in May 2023.
Required reporting of hospitalizations expired in April 2024, after which "The number of hospitals regularly reporting data decreased by nearly two thirds."
Are the Feds preparing for the general?
https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-nationaltrend.html
https://www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-new/updated-hospital-reporting-requirements-for-respiratory-viruses.html
https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/fy-2025-hospital-inpatient-prospective-payment-system-ipps-and-long-term-care-hospital-prospective-0
Of all pandemic deaths to date, school age children accounted for about 961 of 1,196,681 or 0.08%, according to the CDC.
Current wastewater surveillance is relatively high but hardly alarming, according to the CDC.
Have we learned nothing?
Yes, of course. We all went to public school.
According to the CDC, obesity is most severe among those of late middle-age, so if you can prevent it before then you are more likely to escape it later:
The prevalence of severe obesity was highest among adults aged 40–59 compared with other age groups.
Peak Baby Boom turned 40 in 1997.
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| Americans worked 32.61 hours per week on average in 1979 and 31.57 hours in 2022 |
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| All countries in 2016 with 30% of population or more obese |
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| 60% of the US population was working in both 1979 and 2022 |
About 70% of cancers in the oropharynx (which includes the tonsils, soft palate, and base of the tongue) are linked to human papillomavirus (HPV), a common sexually transmitted virus.
The CDC says otherwise.
Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death among US children aged 1-17 years since 1999, totaling 126,650. Among those the number one cause is motor vehicle traffic accidents, totaling 67,884. Number two is drowning accidents, at 19,062. In eighth place is firearm accidents, totaling 2,265.
The second leading cause of death is childhood cancer, totaling 36,312.
The third leading cause of death is homicide, totaling 31,690. Among those the number one cause is firearms, totaling 19,306.
The fourth leading cause of death is suicide, totaling 26,653. Among those the number one cause is suicide by suffocation, totaling 12,890. The number two cause is suicide by firearm, totaling 10,934. Believe it, or not.
If you total firearm accidents, firearm homicides, and firearm suicides over the last 22 years for Americans aged 1-17 you still get only 32,505, a distant third place behind motor vehicle traffic accidents and cancer.
Meanwhile Democrats champion abortion on demand, which has killed untold millions upon millions of children since 1973, for which guns is just the smokescreen.
It was May 25, 2018, the Friday morning before Memorial Day weekend, and the tank holding waste from labs working with Ebola, anthrax, and other lethal pathogens had become overpressurized, forcing the liquid out a vent pipe.
An estimated 2,000-3,000 gallons streamed into a grassy area a few feet from an open storm drain that dumps into Carroll Creek — a centerpiece of downtown Frederick, Maryland, a city of about 80,000 an hour’s drive from the nation’s capital.
But as the waste sprayed for as long as three hours, records show, none of the plant’s workers apparently noticed the tank had burst a pipe. This was despite the facility being under scrutiny from federal lab regulators following catastrophic flooding and an escalating series of safety failures that had been playing out for more than a week. ...
Lab inspectors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had apparently failed to recognize the plant was in such disrepair. The CDC offered no explanation of how the problems were missed, but after the incident it created a new policy and task force for overseeing labs’ wastewater decontamination systems.
Samuel Edwin, director of the CDC’s select agent regulatory program, did not grant an interview. Two years before the plant flooded and failed, the CDC had hired Edwin from USAMRIID, where he had spent eight years as the biological surety officer and responsible official in charge of making sure USAMRIID’s labs complied with federal regulations.
The whole story is a comedy of incompetence which would be funny if it weren't so serious, here.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday said it is “very unlikely” the Pfizer omicron booster carries a risk of stroke for seniors after it launched an investigation into a preliminary safety concern detected by one of its monitoring systems.
The CDC, in a statement posted to its website Friday, said a surveillance system called the Vaccine Safety Datalink detected a possible risk for stroke in people ages 65 and older who received the Pfizer booster shot targeting the omicron Covid variant. A CDC spokesperson said this issue was first detected in late November.
By mid-December, the CDC concluded the concern was persisting and launched an investigation into whether seniors are more likely to have a stroke in the first 21 days after receiving the Pfizer booster, the spokesperson said. A similar preliminary signal was not detected for Moderna’s booster.
The VSD monitoring system found that 130 people ages 65 and older had a stroke within 21 days of receiving the Pfizer omicron booster among about 550,000 seniors who received the shot, the CDC spokesperson said. No deaths have been reported. The Washington Post earlier reported the news. ...
The agency spokesperson said investigators hope to have a clearer picture and more data in the coming weeks.
Story here.
Again, notice the limited scope "within 21 days".
Hey, if I don't get sick within 90 days of reception the jab worked, right?
And if I don't have a stroke within 21 days of reception, no problem, right?
Right?
The people have been voting on this with their feet.
From the peak in April 2021, the vaccine uptake rate in the US has collapsed from 1.06% to 0.04%, or over 96%.
The current rate annualized would mean just 48.5 million Americans per year will get a jab, about 14.6% of the 332 million population.
Meanwhile, France, 80.6% of which has received at least one dose of a vaccine to date, ranks 37th to date for deaths per million at 2438.
Germany, 77.8% of which has received at least one dose of a vaccine, ranks 50th at 1975.
The United States, 80.9% of which has received at least one dose of a vaccine, ranks 12th WORST in the world at 3439.
Vaccine coverage doesn't seem obviously correlated with outcomes.
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