‘There is a race to get the public vaccinated, so we are willing to take more risk.’ Israelis celebrated on Friday when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the country had signed a deal with Pfizer Inc. to buy its novel coronavirus vaccine. But the fact remains that if Pfizer succeeds – or Moderna, with whom Israel…
Category: Covid-19
New York Times reports “Quarantine May Negatively Affect Kids’ Immune Systems”
Keeping children masked and separated is necessary. It could also undermine their bodies’ ability to learn how to fight pathogens. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the world is unwittingly conducting what amounts to the largest immunological experiment in history on our own children. We have been keeping children inside, relentlessly sanitizing their living spaces and their…
Organic Consumers Association reports “Vaccine Fundamentalism―War Metaphors in the COVID-19 Response, Vaccine Policy and Public Health”
The metaphor of war has long been a part of public health. In responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world’s public health agencies mobilized and shut down entire parts of society under the utilitarian goal of stopping the spread of COVID-19. In America, entire states were locked-down, public schools were dismissed, government public services halted…
FEE reports “New Danish Study Finds Masks Don’t Protect Wearers From COVID Infection”
A newly released study in the academic journal Annals of Internal Medicine casts more doubt on policies that force healthy individuals to wear face coverings. Few issues are more contentious in modern American life than mandatory mask orders. And the debate is about to get even more heated. A newly released study in the academic journal Annals of…
NY Times reports “Immunity to the Coronavirus May Last Years, New Data Hint”
Blood samples from recovered patients suggest a powerful, long-lasting immune response, researchers reported. How long might immunity to the coronavirus last? Years, maybe even decades, according to a new study — the most hopeful answer yet to a question that has shadowed plans for widespread vaccination. Eight months after infection, most people who have recovered still…
Children’s Health Defense reports “Leading COVID Vaccine Candidates Plagued by Safety Concerns”
Unproven technologies, unsafe ingredients and inadequate testing — fortunately, current law prohibits mandating unlicensed vaccines approved for “emergency use.” “It works!” trumpeted the normally stoic Nature journal about Pfizer’s early release results in a Phase III trial of its vaccine for COVID-19. Pfizer stated the vaccine was 90% effective when trial participants were exposed to SARS CoV-2, the virus said to cause…
Forbes reports “Antiviral Drug Remdesivir Proves Ineffective In Treating Covid-19, WHO Study Finds”
The antiviral drug remdesivir had little or no effect in treating patients hospitalized with Covid-19, according to a study that has not yet been peer reviewed, but was coordinated by the World Health Organization and released on Thursday, casting doubt on one of the few promising treatments for the coronavirus. Remdesivir is the only specific drug…
Lifesite News reports “Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine trials showed ‘severe’ side effects, ‘fever and aches’”
The company claims its shot is ‘90% effective’ and will be available to the public soon, but serious questions about the vaccine’s safety remain Mere days after Pfizer announced its new “90% effective” coronavirus vaccine, reports have emerged about “severe” side effects volunteers for the vaccine trial experienced, including fevers and headaches. According to the…