Author Archives: Robert K Stephen (CSW)

Israel Awaits Approval from FDA Before Administering PFIZER COVID Vaccination According to Jerusalem Post

FDA announces deaths of two Pfizer vaccine trial participants Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center’s director-general said the hospital was planning to vaccinate staff even before FDA approval. By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN   DECEMBER 8, 2020 18:52 A refrigerated truck leaves the Pfizer plant in Puurs, Belgium December 3, 2020.(photo credit: YVES HERMAN/REUTERS)AdvertisementAt least 110,000 doses of the Pfizer coronavirusContinue reading “Israel Awaits Approval from FDA Before Administering PFIZER COVID Vaccination According to Jerusalem Post”

COVID-19 Vaccine: Not Perfect But the Odds Appear Fair: FDA December 8th Briefing Document Shows the Risk of “Fatal Outcomes”

Fatal COVID Vaccination fatalities are on many minds except those that blindly believe a fast tracked FDA or Health Canada approval acts like a magic protective bubble. Yet a December 8th FDA briefing paper for a December 10, 2020 meeting of the Vaccine and related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) on page 41 reveals fatalContinue reading “COVID-19 Vaccine: Not Perfect But the Odds Appear Fair: FDA December 8th Briefing Document Shows the Risk of “Fatal Outcomes””

Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 2: (A Serialized Novel By Robert K. Stephen)

CHAPTER 2 It all started out not too badly at my first largecorp My first legal job was in the mid eigthies with an up-and-coming insurance company in downtown Toronto by the name of Canadian Reassurance Assistance Providers Ltd. or as many referred to it simply as CRAP. CRAP was initially a regional insurance companyContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 2: (A Serialized Novel By Robert K. Stephen)”

The FDA’s Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee Meeting of October 22, 2020: An Overhead Reveals Possible Adverse Side Effects of COVID-19 Vaccine

FDA Safety Surveillance of COVID-19 Vaccines :DRAFT Working list of possible adverse event outcomesSubject to change Guillain-Barré syndrome Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis Transverse myelitis Encephalitis/myelitis/encephalomyelitis/meningoencephalitis/meningitis/encepholapathy Convulsions/seizures Stroke Narcolepsy and cataplexy Anaphylaxis Acute myocardial infarction Myocarditis/pericarditis Autoimmune disease Deaths Pregnancy and birth outcomes Other acute demyelinating diseases Non-anaphylactic allergic reactions Thrombocytopenia Disseminated intravascular coagulation Venous thromboembolism ArthritisContinue reading “The FDA’s Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee Meeting of October 22, 2020: An Overhead Reveals Possible Adverse Side Effects of COVID-19 Vaccine”

Don’t play with fire or you might get burnt; Revenge of American Thanksgiving (USA Today)

A very, very dark place’: Hospitals brace for crisis-care mode with too many patients, not enough staff Ken AlltuckerUSA TODAY0:190:49https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.427.1_en.html#goog_1634236857 COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations are at record levels, and the rising case toll from Americans’ holiday travel has created an unprecedented surge with no relief in sight. The problem is especially ominous in the nation’s intensive care units – specializedContinue reading “Don’t play with fire or you might get burnt; Revenge of American Thanksgiving (USA Today)”

“The Plague” by Albert Camus: Passage for Reflection: The Fight Against the Plague

” Fledging moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow down to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be putContinue reading ““The Plague” by Albert Camus: Passage for Reflection: The Fight Against the Plague”

Passage for contemplation: Albert Camus: “The Plague”: Pleasure in the Peril!

“In the early days, when they thought that this epidemic was much like the other epidemics, religion held its ground, But, once these people realized their instant peril, they gave their thoughts to pleasure. And all the hideous fears which stamp their faces in the daytime are transformed in the fiery, dusty nightfall into aContinue reading “Passage for contemplation: Albert Camus: “The Plague”: Pleasure in the Peril!”

Albert Camus “The Plague”: The Inevitably of Plagues

“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world: yet somehow we find it hard to believe in the ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history. Yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.” Albert CamusContinue reading “Albert Camus “The Plague”: The Inevitably of Plagues”

“The Plague” by Albert Camus: Passage for Contemplation; The Quiet Before the Plague

“The Plague” (La Peste) is a fictional work dealing with a plague in Oran, Algeria. It was first published by Camus (1913-1960) in 1947. In the following passage before the plague hits he described the nature of Oran which might very well be Toronto or New York. “Perhaps the easiest way of making a town’sContinue reading ““The Plague” by Albert Camus: Passage for Contemplation; The Quiet Before the Plague”

“Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International”: A Serialized Novel By Robert K. Stephen: Chapter 1

CHAPTER 1 A little about myself I suppose the veracity of this book will no doubt be filtered through some psychological analysis of the author. So that is why he was so bitter, angry, frustrated, insightful, mad or immature! Let me give you some fodder which might afford you an opportunity to better understand meContinue reading ““Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International”: A Serialized Novel By Robert K. Stephen: Chapter 1″