Operation Warp Speed Covid-19 vaccines have recently received emergency use authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. These novel coronavirus vaccines were developed and approved in less than one year’s time, making them among the fastest vaccines ever made and mass-deployed to the public. Given the breakneck speed of their development and approval, it…
Day: January 18, 2021
Reuters reports “Gut bacteria tied to [Covid] disease severity, immune response; high mental health toll seen in ICUs”
The microscopic organisms living in our intestines may influence the severity of COVID-19 and the body’s immune response to it, and could account for lingering symptoms, researchers reported on Monday in the journal Gut. They found that the gut microorganisms in COVID-19 patients were very different from those in uninfected individuals. “COVID patients lack certain…
Global Times reports “Why were US media silent on Pfizer vaccine deaths?: Global Times editorial”
Twenty-three elderly Norwegian people died after receiving Pfizer vaccines. Thirteen of them have been assessed and common side effects may have contributed to severe reactions in them, according to the Norwegian Medicines Agency. Norway is a small Northern European country and only about 25,000 people have been vaccinated with Pfizer vaccines. Twenty-three deaths are a…