Category: Medical Ethics
Washington Post reports “Bogus Oklahoma ivermectin story was just too good to check”
After the story went viral, two hospitals in eastern Oklahoma — Northeastern Health System-Sequoyah and Integris Grove Hospital — issued statements denying that they had been overrun by ivermectin users. During an interview, Scott Schaeffer, managing director of the Oklahoma Center for Poison and Drug Information, said that during August, his program had a total of 13…
Today reports “Evidence grows stronger for COVID-19 vaccine link to heart issue, CDC says”
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…
WBUR reports “Poll Finds Public Health Has A Trust Problem”
Overall, the poll found that only 52% of Americans have a great deal of trust in CDC. Other health agencies were even lower — only 37% of Americans said they had a lot of trust in the National Institutes of Health or the Food and Drug Administration. https://www.wbur.org/npr/996331692/poll-finds-public-health-has-a-trust-problem
Organic Consumers Association reports “The Vaccine Passport Dilemma: How the Vaccine Passport Exacerbates Existing Inequalities In Society”
During the pandemic, the government public health institutions promised us solutions that failed to meet expectations. Based on faulty Imperial College models, we were promised lockdowns as a short-term solution that would contain the pandemic.We were promised that mask mandates would stop COVID-19 despite their ambiguous evidence for efficacy and the later evidence that showed less than promised benefits. Now we are…
IPAK reports “The Lies Vaccinologists Tell Themselves: VAERS Receives Due Scrutiny on Rating and COVID-19 VAERS Patterns Require Explanation”
Two articles in Volume 2 address the question of detecting signals in the US Vaccine AdverseEvents Reporting System (VAERS). Co-managed by the US CDC and the US FDA, VAERS is represented as having the strengths of containing national data, being able to “rapidly detect ‘safety’ signals” and “detect rare adverse events”, and that the VAERS…
Mercola reports “More Good News on Ivermectin”
Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug that may be even more useful against COVID-19 than hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). However, like HCQ, use of ivermectin has been globally suppressed, discouraged and even warned against, despite decades of safe use for other ailments In the U.S., the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) has been calling for widespread adoption…
The Federalist reports “6 Reasons College Vaccine Passports Are Absurd And Legally Objectionable”
For a year and half now, most college students in America have been barred from in-person learning. We have taken out student loans for already over-priced institutions only to be subjected to vastly inferior remote learning. For students who choose to remain on campus, rather than move back into their high school bedrooms, universities have…
BMJ reports “Covid-19 vaccines: In the rush for regulatory approval, do we need more data?”
After rollout under emergency authorisation, manufacturers of covid-19 vaccines now have their sights on regulatory approval. But what’s the rush, asks Peter Doshi, and is just six months of data from now unblinded trials acceptable? In April 2021, Pfizer and Moderna announced efficacy results at the six month mark from the phase III trials of their…
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…