The agency’s decision to limit its reporting of breakthrough cases has prompted wide variation in how states keep tabs on them. The Centers for Disease Control’s limited tracking of Covid-19 cases in vaccinated people is hindering public health officials’ attempts to stem the nationwide surge of the highly transmissible Delta variant. The agency said in…
Category: Vaccine Failure
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…
Forbes reports “Covid Surges In 4 Of 5 Most Vaccinated Countries—Here’s Why The U.S. Should Worry”
Countries with the world’s highest vaccination rates—including four of the top five most vaccinated—are fighting to contain coronavirus outbreaks that are, on a per-capita basis, higher than the surge devastating India, a trend that has experts questioning the efficacy of some vaccines (especially China’s Sinopharm) and the wisdom of easing restrictions even with most of the…
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…
NBC reports “Covid-19 booster shot likely needed within 12 months, Pfizer’s CEO says”
People will likely need a third dose of a Covid-19 vaccine within a year of getting fully vaccinated and may subsequently need annual shots to protect against the coronavirus, Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla said Thursday. Moderna is similarly studying an upgraded version of its Covid-19 vaccine that is specifically designed to target the South African variant, which…
CNN reports “5,800 fully vaccinated people have caught Covid anyway in US, CDC says”
Thu April 15, 2021 About 5,800 people who have been vaccinated against coronavirus have become infected anyway, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells CNN. Some became seriously ill and 74 people died, the CDC said. It said 396 — 7% — of those who got infected after they were vaccinated required hospitalization. https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/14/health/breakthrough-infections-covid-vaccines-cdc/index.html
Nakim reports “The uncovering of the vaccination data in Israel reveals a frightening picture “
Our reanalyses of these data explain why during the massive vaccination project initiated mid-December 2020 during a confinement, daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases failed to decrease as they do during confinements, and, more importantly, why numbers of serious, critical and death cases increased during that period that covered at least one month. From mid-December to…
Israel National News reports “Inside Israel 4,500 people diagnosed with COVID after getting 1st vaccine dose”
Health Ministry official warns one vaccine dose is not enough to prevent COVID-19 infection as morbidity continues to rise. The head of the public health services at the Health Ministry, Dr. Sharon Elrai-Price, warned Tuesday during a briefing that a single dose of the coronavirus vaccine does not provide sufficient protection against infection from the…