Are AI Clinical Protocols A Dobb-ist Trojan Horse?
By MIKE MAGEE
For most loyalist Americans at the turn of the 19th century, Justice John Marshall Harlan’s decision in Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905). was a “slam dunk.” In it, he elected to force a reluctant Methodist minister in Massachusetts to undergo Smallpox vaccination during a regional epidemic or pay a fine.
Justice Harlan wrote at the time: “Real liberty for all could not exist under the operation of a principle which recognizes the right of each individual person to use his own, whether in respect of his person or his property, regardless of the injury that may be done to others.”
What could ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Abortion AI Dobbs Forced Sterilization Mike Magee racial bias SCOTUS Vaccination Source Type: blogs
The inflection point
Okay, pretty correct answers from our two commenters on the previous post. Not just chlorination, but clean water generally, i.e. sewage treatment and separating sewage from drinking water sources. Also pasteurization of milk was very important. But the story is a bit more complicated. Pre-industrial people were mostly rural, obviously drank their milk fresh and didn ' t have a lot to fear from waterborne diseases since their population was sparse. Obviously they did suffer greatly from other plagues -- the Black Death killed something like half the population of Europe in the mid-14th Century, and plague recurred in lesse...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 20, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Inexplicable irrationality
For mysterious reasons, there have been anti-vaccination movements since vaccination was invented.* The eradication of smallpox from the earth; the near eradication of polio (which terrified the population in the 1950s); and the near elimination of measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, typhus and other diseases which formerly maimed and killed many children; and many other triumphs ought to have convinced people that vaccination was an unalloyed benefit to humanity. But somehow it ' s profitable to deny this obvious reality.The near miraculous success of the Covid 19 vaccines turns out to be one more opportunity for charlat...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 25, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Why We Can ’ t Eradicate Poliovirus
by Gertrud U. Rey In 1988 the World Health Organization, Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention passed the initiative to eradicate polio globally by the year 2000. We are now 23 years past this deadline, and it is increasingly clear that this goal will likely never be achieved. Smallpox … Why We Can’t Eradicate Poliovirus Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - July 6, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Gertrud U. Rey Tags: Basic virology Gertrud Rey Albert Sabin asymptomatic infection childhood vaccination eradication fecal-oral route gut immunity inactivated poliovirus vaccine IPV jonas salk local immunity nOPV2 oral poliovirus vaccine paralysis Source Type: blogs
Why We Can ’ t Eradicate Polio
by Gertrud U. Rey In 1988 the World Health Organization, Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention passed the initiative to eradicate polio globally by the year 2000. We are now 23 years past this deadline, and it is increasingly clear that this goal will likely never be achieved. Smallpox … Why We Can’t Eradicate Polio Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - July 6, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Gertrud U. Rey Tags: Basic virology Gertrud Rey Albert Sabin asymptomatic infection childhood vaccination eradication fecal-oral route gut immunity inactivated poliovirus vaccine IPV jonas salk local immunity nOPV2 oral poliovirus vaccine paralysis Source Type: blogs
Myocarditis update from Sweden
BY ANISH KOKA
The COVID19/vaccine myocarditis debate continues in large part because our public health institutions are grossly mischaracterizing the risks and benefits of vaccines to young people.
A snapshot of what the establishment says as it relates to the particular area of concern: college vaccine mandates:
Dr. Arthur Reingold, an epidemiology professor at UC-Berkeley, notes that UC also requires immunizations for measles and chickenpox, and people still are dying from COVID at rates that exceed those for influenza. As of Feb. 1, there were more than 400 COVID deaths a day across the U.S.
“The arg...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Anish Koka covid19 myocarditis Sweden Source Type: blogs
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Outbreaks of Injustice Linked by Two Different Dobbs.
BY MIKE MAGEE
Under the definition for the noun, epidemic, there are two main (and distinctly different) definitions. I know this fact because it was the beginning point of my preparations earlier this summer for a Fall course on “The History of Epidemics in America” at the Presidents College at the University of Hartford.
The entry reads:
Epidemic nounep·i·dem·ic | \ ˌe-pə-ˈde-mik \Definition of epidemic (Entry 2 of 2)1: an outbreak of disease that spreads quickly and affects many individuals at the same time : an outbreak of epidemic disease2: an outbreak or product of sudden ra...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 31, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Bioethics and Law Medical Practice Buck vs. Bell Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
Microparticle Vaccine Provides Boosters Automatically
Researchers at MIT have created a microparticle vaccine that can provide booster doses automatically. The hollow microparticles resemble a coffee cup with a lid, and are made using poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid), otherwise known as PLGA. The polymer breaks down over time in the body, releasing the contents of the hollow particles. By changing the composition of the polymer and the chemical groups attached to it, the researchers can tweak the release time, allowing them to deliver an assortment of particles that release at different times.
This would allow them to deliver the particles subcutaneously, and then as the par...
Source: Medgadget - July 27, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Medicine Public Health covid mit vaccines Source Type: blogs
TWiV Special: Monkeypox clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In this special episode, Dr. Griffin answers questions about the recent cases of monkeypox including their origin, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and overall risk. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 27, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology monkeypox smallpox vaccine viral virus viruses zoonosis Source Type: blogs
The next plague
Here ' s a discussion by Kelly Piper of the ominous implications of the Omicron variant of Covid-19. Most people are thinking that in the long run, it ' s good news that we have this highly contagious, but less virulent strain of the virus. Once we get past the surge and the problems of overwhelmed hospitals and too many people out sick, we ' ll have a degree of herd immunity and it will be comparable to flu and other respiratory viruses that we already live with.That may be true, although it ' s too soon to tell. Another more dangerous variant may yet emerge. But it also points to a danger -- this highly contagious virus ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 28, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
TWiV 832: Heavy metal flu fighters
TWiV reviews the vials labeled smallpox that were not, re-emergence of enterovirus D68 in Europe, efficacy of inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, and cellular correlates of protection for an oral influenza virus vaccine. Click arrow to playDownload TWiV 832 (77 MB .mp3, 128 min)Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Show notes at microbe.tv/twiv (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - November 21, 2021 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology adenovirus vector adjuvant correlate of protection Covaxin COVID-19 inactivated vaccine influenza influenza oral vaccine mass cytometry pandemic SARS-CoV-2 smallpox vaccine efficacy vaccinia virus viral Source Type: blogs
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I think that in the present political climate, a small history lesson may be in order. The first safe and effective vaccination was discovered by the English physician Edward Jenner in 1796. It depended on the lucky coincidence that infection with the cowpox virus, which causes only mild disease in humans, confers cross-immunity to smallpox, a terrible scourge which had afflicted humanity for thousands of years. (That ' s why we call it vaccination, by the way, from the Latin vacca for cow. Modern vaccination used killed virus and caused no disease.) Nobody knew at the time what a virus was or why this worked, so it would ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 9, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Vaccine Brawl – A Legal Battle in Process
By MIKE MAGEE
The power to mandate vaccines was litigated and resolved over a century ago. Justice John Marshall Harlin, a favorite of current Chief Justice Roberts, penned the 7 to 2 majority opinion in 1905’s Jacobson v. Massachusetts. Its impact was epic.
In 1905, Massachusetts was one of 11 states that required compulsory vaccinations. The Rev. Henning Jacobson, a Lutheran minister, challenged the city of Cambridge, MA, which had passed a local law requiring citizens to undergo smallpox vaccination or pay a $5 fine. Jacobson and his son claimed they had previously had bad reactions to the vaccine and refused to...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 6, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Public Health Biden Code Blue COVID vaccine COVID-19 vaccine covid19 Joe Biden Mike Magee the First Amendment vaccines Source Type: blogs
This is your brain on religion
A Providence TV news reporter tells us the sad story of health care workerswho are losing their jobs because they refuse the Covid-19 vaccine. I ' ll quote two of them." It goes against all of my religious beliefs to the core of my existence. " " I have not infected one patient that I know of. Who knows what [the vaccine] is going to do [to our bodies] years from now. I have my own God-given antibodies against this virus. " (She says she has been infected and recovered.)The first speaker is a phlebotomist. The second speaker is a registered nurse who works in a hospital. There is no major religious denomination -- Chr...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 1, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
