A higher-than-usual number of cases of a type of heart inflammationhas been reported following COVID-19 vaccination, especially among young men following their second dose of an mRNA vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. Teenagers and people in their early 20s accounted for more than half of the myocarditis cases reported to the…
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Forbes reports “Covid Surges In 4 Of 5 Most Vaccinated Countries—Here’s Why The U.S. Should Worry”
Countries with the world’s highest vaccination rates—including four of the top five most vaccinated—are fighting to contain coronavirus outbreaks that are, on a per-capita basis, higher than the surge devastating India, a trend that has experts questioning the efficacy of some vaccines (especially China’s Sinopharm) and the wisdom of easing restrictions even with most of the…
Bloomberg reports “CDC Limits Reviews of Vaccinated but Infected, Spurring Concerns”
Federal health officials this month decided to limit how they monitor vaccinated people who have been infected with Covid-19, drawing concern from some scientists who say that may mean missing needed data showing why and how it happens. At the start of May, the CDC shifted from monitoring all reported breakthroughs to only those that…
Fox News reports “Former HHS COVID advisor warns against children getting the COVID vaccine”
“These vaccines are Emergency Use Authorization, so they’re investigational. They’re experimental use. Normal vaccines, from inception, from the thought process all the way to bringing it to market, to putting it in arms could generally take 8 to 10 to 12 years. In this case, they’re going to try and rush through vaccines in a…
Engineering News Record reports “OSHA Imposes New Guidance For Employer-Required COVID-19 Vaccines”
New guidance from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is causing contractors to change their COVID-19 vaccine requirements, and many of them criticize the guidance as diametrically opposed to the Biden administration’s stated desire to increase vaccinations. This is the actual text of the new question and answer on the OSHA website: “If I…
Medical Xpress reports “SARS-CoV-2 spike protein alone may cause lung damage.”
“Our findings show that the SARS-CoV2 spike protein causes lung injury even without the presence of intact virus,” said Pavel Solopov, Ph.D., DVM, research assistant professor at the Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics at Old Dominion University. “This previously unknown mechanism could cause symptoms before substantial viral replication occurs.” The researchers found that the genetically modified mice injected…
ABC reports “Children as young as 6 months old now in COVID-19 vaccine trials.”
As nearly 140 million American adults have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and we inch closer to herd immunity, vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna have moved on to the next phase of the fight against the virus: studying to see if the vaccine will be safe and effective for children. “Children under 18…
NY Post reports “Herpes infection possibly linked to COVID-19 vaccine, study says”
Herpes infections may be a side effect of a COVID-19 vaccine, experts have revealed. Scientists in Israel identified six cases in a new study of patients developing a skin rash known as herpes zoster — or shingles — after receiving the Pfizer vaccine, according to a study in the Rheumatology journal. Out of 491 patients, six people or 1.2 percent…
GreenMedInfo OpEd “A Vaccine Discussion for All of the People: An Open Letter”
In recent years, our local health boards have become heavily invested in advancing legislation and imposing ordinances geared toward restricting the rights of citizens in the name of public health. This is particularly true when it comes to vaccine mandates and our right to refuse. Aggressive top-down vaccination campaigns have hijacked public health discussions, making it increasingly…
NBC reports “Covid-19 booster shot likely needed within 12 months, Pfizer’s CEO says”
People will likely need a third dose of a Covid-19 vaccine within a year of getting fully vaccinated and may subsequently need annual shots to protect against the coronavirus, Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla said Thursday. Moderna is similarly studying an upgraded version of its Covid-19 vaccine that is specifically designed to target the South African variant, which…