The Story of Influenza Antivirals: Part 22
Council of Europe Statement from Tom Jefferson (March 2010)
The first part of this post is the best exposé I have ever come across of the vital differentiation between influenza and influenza-like illnesses, which tend to all get lumped together erroneously under “flu”, hence I am reStacking here.
My personal comments on this:
1 My GP grandmother, whom I have mentioned before, used to get very irate when patients came to her with the “flu”, when in fact they had something in the influenza-like illness set of symptoms. She would get even more irate when colleagues, who should know better, especially the so-called specialists, did the same thing. This was 40-odd years ago. Seems nothing much has changed. So much for the “progress” of science and medicine.
2 My Middle Ages were supposedly a time of superstitious stagnation in all the sciences, espec -
Tom’s statement of evidence to the Council of Europe concludes with, “I cannot predict the future, but if it repeats the past, it will be full of continuous alarms and possible declarations of pandemics.
Given how relevant the information is to the pandemic and the Covid Inquiry, we've reposted it with a few minor edits for clarity. The evidence makes …
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