It’s a debate that’s roiling boardrooms around the world. Depending on the poll you read, 40 to 50 percent of Americans say they will not get a coronavirus vaccine when it first becomes available to them. In a survey of firefighters in New York City, who are essential workers at high risk of infection, 55 percent said…
Category: Covid-19
John Hopkins reports “Covid-19 Deaths: A Look at U.S. Data”
The MS in Applied Economics hosted a friendly conversation on a morose topic on November 11, 2020. This presentation was led by Dr. Genevieve Briand, MS in Applied Economics Assistant Program Director. Genevieve went over where the data could be accessed and downloaded. Together with her, event attendees were invited to think critically about the…
Natural Blaze reports “Should You Take A COVID19 Vaccine?”
Rushing these experimental, new technology SARS-CoV-2 vaccines to market makes no sense based on the actual COVID19 lethality. As of this writing, the fatality from COVID19 is only .09% of the total US population, and .02% of the world population! How do ridiculously low death numbers like these, justify life-destroying lockdowns and rush to market…
Zero Hedge reports “Ex-Pfizer Exec Demands EU Halt COVID-19 Vaccine Studies Over ‘Indefinite Infertility’ And Other Health Concerns”
Former Pfizer vice president and scientific director Dr. Michael Yeadon and German lung specialist and parliamentarian Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg have filed an urgent application with the European Medicine Agency calling for the immediate suspension of all SARS-CoV-2 vaccine studies – particularly the BioNtech/Pfizer study on BNT162b (EudraCT number 2020-002641-42). Yeadon and Wodarg say the studies should be halted until a design study…
Lifesite News reports “Bishop Strickland: I will not accept a COVID vaccine derived from aborted babies”
‘I’m not going to accept a vaccine that has the DNA of aborted children in it,’ His Excellency said in his latest interview with Terry Barber. As many COVID vaccines are beginning to be rolled out or have already, His Excellency continued to caution Catholics in his diocese and elsewhere to look into these morally objectionable vaccines. In the…
Evolution of Medicine reports “Covid Antifragility: Trusting Our Strength in Uncertain Times”
Are we as vulnerable to Covid as public health authorities want us to believe? Instead of focusing on our weakness, we should be focusing on becoming more resilient and antifragile. In various states in America, governors have placed stringent restrictions upon the celebration of holidays, going so far as to dictate how long our celebrations…
Jerusalem Post reports “Could mRNA COVID-19 vaccines be dangerous in the long-term?”
‘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…
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…