The usual diagnostic tests may simply be too sensitive and too slow to contain the spread of the virus. Some of the nation’s leading public health experts are raising a new concern in the endless debate over coronavirus testing in the United States: The standard tests are diagnosing huge numbers of people who may be carrying relatively…
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The Failed Experiment of Covid Lockdowns
New data suggest that social distancing and reopening haven’t determined the spread. Six months into the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. has now carried out two large-scale experiments in public health—first, in March and April, the lockdown of the economy to arrest the spread of the virus, and second, since mid-April, the reopening of the economy….
National Health Freedom Action petition: “Stop Government Coercion: States Attempt Forcing Dangerous Flu Vaccines on Students and Faculty”
The right of people to make their own medical decisions as to how they want to promote their own health and survival is at the heart of American values and personal liberty. The importance of the protection of personal autonomy, health choice, and basic human fundamental rights of self-determination are at stake as we move…
Associated Press reports “UN says new polio outbreak in Sudan caused by oral vaccine”
The World Health Organization says a new polio outbreak in Sudan is linked to an ongoing vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad — a week after the U.N. health agency declared the African continent free of the wild polio virus. In a statement this week, WHO said two children in Sudan — one from South Darfur state and the…
CNN reports “Past vaccine disasters show why rushing a coronavirus vaccine now would be ‘colossally stupid'”
Vaccine experts are warning the federal government against rushing out a coronavirus vaccine before testing has shown it’s both safe and effective. Decades of history show why they’re right. Their concern that the FDA may be moving too quickly heightened when FDA Commissioner Dr. Steven Hahn told the Financial Times that his agency could consider…
CNN reports “Experts call for independent commission separate from FDA to review Covid-19 vaccines”
Citing criticism of government agencies and increasing public distrust of vaccines, several prominent physicians and experts are calling for the creation of an independent commission to review data from coronavirus vaccine trials before a vaccine is allowed on the market. The US Food and Drug Administration regulates vaccines, and its OK is all that’s needed…
The Guardian reports “Covid vaccine rush could make pandemic worse, say scientists
The rush to immunise populations against Covid-19 could lead to the rollout of a vaccine that is not very effective and risk worsening the pandemic, leading scientists have said. Politicians and commercial companies are competing to be the first to license a vaccine, but experts say the world would be better served by waiting until…
News Punch reports “Tens of Thousands of Germans Rise Up Against Bill Gates and Big Pharma in Berlin”
Germans are rising up against Bill Gates, demanding humanity wake up and reject the self-styled “world health dictator“, as well as corrupt Big Pharma and the elite who are driving the world towards “global totalitarianism” and “slavery.” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke to an enormous crowd in Berlin on Saturday, as tens of thousands of Germans…
Forbes reports “CDC: ‘No Evidence-Based Data’ That State-Level Quarantines Prevent Coronavirus”
U.S. Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield said Thursday that the agency doesn’t have “evidence-based data” of the effectiveness of the quarantine measures announced Wednesday by New York, Connecticut and New Jersey on travelers from states with high coronavirus infection rates. https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/06/25/cdc-no-evidence-based-data-that-state-level-quarantines-prevent-coronavirus/#7138f48e5e1c
Stat News reports “Moderna failed to disclose federal funding for vaccine patent applications, advocates say”
An advocacy group has asked the Department of Defense to investigate what it called “an apparent failure” by Moderna (MRNA) to disclose millions of dollars in awards received from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in patent applications the company filed for vaccines. In a letter to the agency, Knowledge Ecology International explained that a review of dozens of…