Flu "hype", vaccinations and tin foil hats
Category: Media
It wasn't "hype."
Posted by revere at 6:41 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and practitioners. Paul Revere was a member of the first local Board of Health in the United States (Boston, 1799). The Editors sign their posts "Revere" to recognize the public service of a professional forerunner better known for other things.
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Pandemic preparedness:
Fire in the hole: Wolfgang Wodarg and WHO
Category: WHO
The Council of Europe is anal retentive.
Posted by revere at 6:26 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New data on how much infection in the first wave of the pandemic
Category: Swine flu
Much more infection in the young than was apparent, less in those over 15.
Posted by revere at 6:21 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Another swine flu virus
Category: Swine flu
This time it's swine origin H3N2.
Posted by revere at 3:32 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
WHO prepares to don a hair shirt
Category: WHO
Politicians get into the finger pointing act. How surprising!
Posted by revere at 6:58 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Swine flu 2009: what went right and tip of the hat
Category: Swine flu
As Ed Koch would say, "How we doin'?"
Posted by revere at 1:48 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Swine flu: (unfinished) story of the year
Category: Infectious disease
Story of this year. What about next year?
Posted by revere at 6:40 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
CDC's 2009 flu wrap up presser
Category: CDC
Where we are at this point.
Posted by revere at 6:28 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The chutzpah of Senator Collins
Category: Pandemic preparedness
Collins and Lieberman at Homeland Security and the definition of gall.
Posted by revere at 6:27 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mild pandemic? Bite your tongue.
Category: Swine flu
No such thing as a mild flu pandemic.
Posted by revere at 6:44 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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