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RSV Accounted for 90% of Rhode Island Pediatric “Tripledemic” Hospitalizations in October and November
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Dec 19th 2022 3:52pm ESTAlready by the last week of October, 2022 (here; here; here), continuing through November (here), and early December (here; here), local Rhode Island media were amplifying RI clinician and public h…
Challenging the “Rationale” for UConn’s Covid-19 Vaccine Booster Mandate [with Audio]
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Dec 15th 2022 1:59pm ESTThis past March 30, 2022, the Connecticut State Colleges and University (CSCU) System, which comprises Connecticut’s 17 public colleges and universities, apart from the University of Connecticut (U…
Freedom of Information request filed at UConn for “[s]imple, deidentified raw number tallies comparing students hospitalized for covid-19 lower respiratory tract infection, vs. those hospitalized for a serious adverse event after covid-19 vaccination”
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Dec 15th 2022 7:46am ESTLink to pdf of request: UConn FOI req pdf highlighted
“Decency” Denseness—Educating Rhode Island’s James Woods, and other conservatives, about Joseph Welch, Joseph McCarthy, and Frederick Fisher
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Dec 8th 2022 6:43am ESTFriday night, December 2, 2022, Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk released emails demonstrating the company’s prior explicit collusion with Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign to suppress the Hunter…
Link to full pdf of M. Stanton Evans, “On Not Having Any Decency,” chapter 42 of his magnum opus, “Blacklisted By History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy”
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Dec 6th 2022 2:27pm ESTLink to full pdf of M. Stanton Evans, “On Not Having Any Decency,” chapter 42 of his magnum opus, “Blacklisted By History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy” Evans ch…
New York Times 4/16/1954 story on U.S. Army counsel Joseph Welch’s outing of Frederick G. Fisher as a member of the Communist front National Lawyer’s Guild, & Welch’s relieving Fisher of duty as his assistant counsel
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Dec 6th 2022 9:56am ESTLink to full pdf of NY Times story: Welch Fired Fisher Before ArmyMcCarthy Hearings_nyt_4.16.1954 Highlights of 4/16/1954 NY Times story featuring Fisher’s photograph, and demonstrating how …
AG Herbert Brownell’s 8/27/1953 Speech to the ABA designating The National Lawyer’s Guild as a subversive, Communist front, & the speech’s 8/28/1953 highlighting in the New York Times
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Dec 6th 2022 9:33am ESTKey extract from the speech: “We have been studying evidence that the National Lawyers Guild be included in the list of subversive organizations…I am now prepared to make this determination p…
Authors of just published RCT showing N95 masks are no more “effective” than medical masks in preventing SARS-CoV-2 infection demonstrate how the prevailing iron-fisted, pro-mask bias warps contemporary academic messaging
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Dec 1st 2022 1:40pm ESTA randomized, controlled trial (RCT) among health care workers comparing fit-tested N95 masks (n=507), to medical masks (n=497) just published 11/29/22 in the pre-eminent internal medicine journal …
Seven first trimester miscarriages associated with covid-19 mRNA vaccination among Rhode Island women that merit serious follow-up investigation by RIDOH’s “Covid-19 Vaccine Surveillance Unit”
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Nov 22nd 2022 9:09am ESTSixty-six doctors, scientists and clinical practitioners have just penned an open letter to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) expressing concerns about “ignoring safety signals” … Continue reading →
Small RCT in 1981 showed masking did not prevent RSV among medical personnel
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Nov 17th 2022 4:30pm ESTMurphy D, Todd JK, Chao RK, Orr I, McIntosh K. The use of gowns and masks to control respiratory illness in pediatric hospital personnel. J Pediatr. 1981 Nov;99(5):746-50. doi: 10.1016/s0022-3476(81)80401-5. PMID: 7299552; PMCID: PMC7173004. Full pdf link Downloadable pdf permalink: … Continue reading →
Enormous Rhode Island Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Spike in 2022, vs. 2018-2021
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Nov 17th 2022 1:19pm ESTData from RIDOH data hub for RSV
Current CDC-Determined Connecticut Pediatric RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) Hospitalization Rate (19.8/100K) Exceeds by 63% the Peak Pandemic Covid-19 Pediatric Hospitalization Rate (12.2/100K)
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Nov 4th 2022 5:22pm EDT(See this previous blog about pediatric Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vs. Covid-19 in Rhode Island.) RSV vs. Covid-19 hospitalization rates (per 100,000) as determined by the Centers For Diseas…
Betcha Didn’t Know RIDOH Maintains, “A (Covid-19) vaccine surveillance team within the COVID-19 ‘Epidemiological Operations Unit’ to maintain and review VAERS reports following COVID-19 immunization”
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Nov 3rd 2022 7:41pm EDTDuring a 6/29/22 to 7/1/22 email exchange with the Rhode Island Department of Health’s (RIDOH’s) spokesman, Joseph Wendelken, I pointed to a 6/9/22 published report of 14 RI cases of post-covid-19 …
Never Forget the Original Covid-19 Hysterical Sin in Rhode Island: The April 16, 2020 Raimondo, RIDOH, Brown University “Very Best” Covid-19 Hospitalization “Models”
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Nov 3rd 2022 10:47am EDTFull 4/16/20 presser archived at C-SPAN. Key excerpts: “It’s been a collaborative effort with the (Rhode Island) Department of Health [RIDOH], our own experts, Brown University, and Brown University’s Policy Lab. By the way, I wanna give a huge shout … Continue reading →
(AUDIO) WPRO 10/26/22 Interview: Ashley Kalus Categorically Rejects Potential RIDOH Directed Covid-19 Vaccine Requirement “as a condition to go to school”
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Oct 30th 2022 10:58am EDTFull 10/26/22 interview with WPRO’s Matt Allen available here. Relevant excerpt: Transcript of key portion. Matt Allen: “Would you support a (Rhode Island) Department of Health Director…
More Autopsy Evidence That SARS-CoV-2 Infection, “Covid-19,” Does NOT Cause A Specific Myocarditis Syndrome
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Oct 25th 2022 4:26pm EDTSee this prior blog: “’Covid-19 Myocarditis’” is Not an Actual Syndrome: The Only Controlled Epidemiologic Data, & a Review of Autopsy/ Biopsy Data Support That Conclusion” Reference: Ali Razag…
NY State Supreme Court, Richmond County (Staten Island), reinstates all fired (covid-19) unvaccinated employees, orders backpay, says the state violated rights, acted arbitrary & capricious, notes: “Being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting Covid-19.”
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Oct 25th 2022 12:52pm EDTNYS court opinion: “Being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting Covid-19.” Via Lawyer Marina Medvin: NY State Supreme Court reinstates all fired unvaccinated em…
Rhode Island Pediatric Covid-19 “Delta Wave Hysteria” Last Fall vs. Current Barely Noticed 5X Greater (At Least) Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Hospitalization Rate
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Oct 25th 2022 9:47am EDTToday’s (10/25/22) Projo features medical reporter savant G. Wayne Miller quoting Lifespan spokeswoman Kelly Brennan, that as of Monday (10/24/22) “there are [were] 20 pediatric patients in Hasbro…
Open Schools During Covid-19 in Sweden, Yielding “No learning loss in Sweden during the pandemic” vs. Anti-Scientific, Hysterical Covid-19 “Response” Causing Closed Schools in the U.S., Yielding “historic learning setbacks for America’s children”
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Oct 24th 2022 10:32am EDTSee earlier blog on Sweden, , which includes these data: “No learning loss in Sweden during the pandemic: Evidence from primary school reading assessments” Compare to unnecessarily closed schools p…
Through mid-March, 2022, n=122 fatal myocarditis or pericarditis cases (~0.78% of the total cases) after covid-19 mRNA vaccination, including 5 among those under 18 years old, were recorded in the spontaneous reporting systems of the U.S. and Europe
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Oct 22nd 2022 12:08pm EDTThrough mid-March, 2022, the number of fatal myocarditis or pericarditis cases after covid-19 vaccination totaled 122 (=~0.78% of the total ~15,702 cases documented), as recorded by the spontaneous…
[VIDEO] Dr. Andrew Bostom on CDC ACIP’s disgraceful rejection of evidence-based risk/benefit in recommending covid-19 vaccination be added to routine vaccination schedules: “In low risk (covid-19) populations the risks (of covid-19 vaccination) clearly outweigh the benefits”
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Oct 21st 2022 4:00pm EDTSegment from “In The Dugout,” Dr. Andrew Bostom interviewed by Mike Stenhouse of The Ocean State Current,10/20/22 See backgrounder: “After yet another disgraceful rejection of evi…
Sobering Reminder: Last Year’s Flu Shot FAILURE That EVEN CDC’s Non-Peer Reviewed House Organ MMWR Had To Acknowledge!
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Oct 20th 2022 5:27pm EDTChung JR, Kim SS, Kondor RJ, et al. Interim Estimates of 2021–22 Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness — United States, February 2022. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2022;71:365–370. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7110a1.htm?s_cid=mm7110a1_w “Overall, vaccine effectiveness (VE) against medically attended outpatient ARI associated with influenza … Continue reading →
Has RI Gubernatorial Candidate Ashley Kalus (Albeit Less Emphatically) Joined FL Gov Ron Desantis & AZ Gubernatorial Candidate Kari Lake In Opposing Mandatory Covid-19 Vaccination of Children For School Attendance?
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Oct 20th 2022 4:46pm EDTAfter yet another disgraceful rejection of evidence-based risk/benefit (here; here; here; here; here; here; and especially here), CDC’s ACIP has recommended, unanimously, the addition of COVID-19 vaccines to the routine immunization schedules for children. This both preserves pharmaceutical company immunity from lawsuits, … Continue reading →
Connecticut College Covid-19 Delta Outbreak, Aug.-Sept., 2021: 194/199 students covid-19 infected were fully covid-19 vaccinated, with ZERO hospitalizations, or deaths, regardless of vaccination status
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Oct 16th 2022 9:26am EDTCitation: Stephen M Bart, Christina C Curtiss, Rebecca Earnest, Rachel Lobe-Costonis, Hanna Peterson, Caroline McWilliams, Kendall Billig, James L Hadler, Nathan D Grubaugh, Victor J Arcelus, Lynn …
Pre-Vaccination Global Covid-19 Infection Fatality Ratio (IFR) From Earliest Strains Was Only 0.07% (7/10,000) Among Those < 70 Years Old, i.e., 94% of World’s Population
Dr. Andrew Bostom MD - Oct 15th 2022 9:39am EDT“[I]t is reassuring that even in the wild strains that dominated the first year of the pandemic, the IFR in non-elderly individuals was much lower than previously thought.” Angelo Maria Pezzullo, C…