A new blog series This is my introduction of a new blog series. The blog series will first cover the three major vaccine decisions made by the committee during their meeting that spanned Thursday, September 18 and Friday, September 19. Then, I will cover how we assess vaccine safety, because a primary strategy of thoseContinue reading “What to Know About This Week’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (CDC) Meeting”
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Making Sense of the COVID-19 Vaccine Recommendations and Guidance
A concise and simplified approach Answer: Ask for the 2025 – 2026 Updated COVID-19 Vaccine. Answer: There are four vaccines that will be available in the U.S.: (Company/Brand name/Vaccine type/Age approval) Answer: Spikevax is the same type and dose of vaccine that Moderna has offered throughout the pandemic, though the formulation has been updated overContinue reading “Making Sense of the COVID-19 Vaccine Recommendations and Guidance”
COVID-19 Vaccines Truth or Fiction?
If you are confused about COVID-19 vaccines, whether they are “good” or “bad”, effective or ineffective, safe or unsafe, causing more deaths than COVID-19 itself, resulting in a new epidemic of “turbo cancer” or not, and whether you should consider getting an updated vaccine when they roll out around the country next month, this blogContinue reading ” COVID-19 Vaccines Truth or Fiction?”
Science Is Under Attack
There is no question that science is under attack, and in a systematic and coordinated fashion. I have been studying this in the context of the pandemic for the past 5 years, and there were many recurring signs and patterns I could see that were tip offs that the person spreading disinformation was doing soContinue reading “Science Is Under Attack”
A (fairly) Comprehensive Review of What We Know, What We Think We Know and What You Should Consider about COVID-19.
A (fairly) Comprehensive Review of What We Know, What We Think We Know and What You Should Consider about COVID-19. My intention here is to provide you with information. With this information, you can make your own decisions about your health care. Any recommendations that I make are just that – you can choose whetherContinue reading “A (fairly) Comprehensive Review of What We Know, What We Think We Know and What You Should Consider about COVID-19.”
A Note to My Readers
I’m back, and I want to thank everyone for their patience. As faithful readers of my blog know, I lost my wife – my best friend, my soulmate, and the person who kept me grounded – of nearly 45 years, suddenly and unexpectedly on May 5 due to a sudden cardiac arrest. She was 71Continue reading “A Note to My Readers”
A Loving Tribute to My Wife
Mary Lynette Pate November 2, 1953 – May 5, 2025 Our Love Story I knew that I wanted to be a doctor from an early age. The problem is that anytime I went to the hospital for a visit, I would pass out. It wasn’t that I was squeamish about blood, it was that IContinue reading “A Loving Tribute to My Wife”
The Loss of Control of Measles in the U.S.: A Harbinger of Bad Things to Come
For the past five years, we have been seeing the impacts of decades of coordinated anti-vaccine, and more generally and more recently, anti-science campaigns on a grand scale. When writing the previous sentence, I initially used the phrase “we have been seeing the end results,” but then I replaced “end results” with “impacts.” That isContinue reading “The Loss of Control of Measles in the U.S.: A Harbinger of Bad Things to Come”
A Comprehensive Review and Update on Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) in the U.S.
I have been writing about avian influenza since April 1st a year ago in a large number of blog posts. To understand why I have written so much about this virus and why it remains a concern to me, let’s first review information I have previously provided and then let’s discuss an update and whyContinue reading “A Comprehensive Review and Update on Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) in the U.S.”
A mystery may have been solved
Long-time followers of my blog may remember the perplexing occurrence and significant number of cases of hepatitis (liver infection/inflammation) in 2022, first noted in the U.K. occurring in COVID-19-unvaccinated children under the age of 16 years that we have since referred to as acute hepatitis of unknown origin (AHUO) at a time when fewer mitigationContinue reading “A mystery may have been solved”
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