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…
Category: Medical Ethics
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…
National Geographic reports “COVID-19 vaccines could become mandatory. Here’s how it might work.”
YOU WALK TOWARD the arena, ready for a big game, tickets in hand. But what you see is a long line wrapping around the corner of the building and a bottleneck at the entrance as people search their pockets and purses for a small piece of paper. To be cleared to enter, you’ll also need that…
Georgia Institute of Technology reports “The Largest Unethical Medical Experiment in Human History”
This monograph describes the largest unethical medical experiment in human history: the implementation and operation of non-ionizing non-visible EMF radiation (hereafter called wireless radiation) infrastructure for communications, surveillance, weaponry, and other applications. It is unethical because it violates the key ethical medical experiment requirement for “informed consent” by the overwhelming majority of the participants. The…
Science reports “Abortion opponents protest COVID-19 vaccines’ use of fetal cells”
Senior Catholic leaders in the United States and Canada, along with other antiabortion groups, are raising ethical objections to promising COVID-19 vaccine candidates that are manufactured using cells derived from human fetuses electively aborted decades ago. They have not sought to block government funding for the vaccines, which include two candidate vaccines that the Trump…
AE Daily reports “U.K. Scientists Say Hydroxychloroquine May Still Have Promise, No Drug Has Been Politicized Like This”
British scientists have said hydroxychloroquine may still have promise as a preventive treatment for COVID-19 but the drug has become so politicized that studies investigating whether or not it is effective are being hampered. The goal is to investigate whether or not hydroxychloroquine and the related drug chloroquine are effective in preventing or reducing the…
The Hill reports “Why doctors and researchers need access to hydroxychloroquine”
On July 6, a team of doctors from Henry Ford Hospital, supported by physicians from Baylor University Medical Center, submitted an urgent request to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reauthorize use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for early treatment of COVID-19. Since that day, more than 25,000 more Americans have died from the virus as…
Newsweek reports “The Key to Defeating COVID-19 Already Exists. We Need to Start Using It”
As professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, I have authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and currently hold senior positions on the editorial boards of several leading journals. I am usually accustomed to advocating for positions within the mainstream of medicine, so have been flummoxed to find that, in the midst of a…
WDDTY reports “Will a COVID Vaccine work?”
Celeste McGovern investigates the risks vs benefits of a fast-tracked COVID vaccine and the natural alternatives At least they got the name right. “Operation Warp Speed” is the Trump Administration’s code name (from the science fiction series Star Trek) for the colossal government-corporate partnership, with bottomless public funding and satellites across the globe, that boldly aims to be…