Influenza immunization will be required for all children 6 months of age or older who are attending child care, pre-school, K-12, and colleges and universities in Massachusetts, state public health officials announced Wednesday, in an effort to reduce respiratory illness and flu-related sickness during the coronavirus pandemic. https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/08/19/massachusetts-mandates-flu-vaccinations-for-students-of-all-ages/#5b06896c126d
Category: Vaccine Mandates
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…
Dr. Tetyana Obukhanych reports “Is mRNA Vaccination Approach Sane in Post-Covid-19 Era?”
In summary, with serious gaps in published vaccine assessment, Moderna’s mRNA-1273 vaccine will likely fall short of delivering the long-awaited safe and effective reprieve from the COVID-19 fear narrative. https://www.tetyanaobukhanych.com/blog/is-mrna-vaccination-approach-sane-in-post-covid-19-era
Children’s Health Defense reports “Nearly 400 Adverse Reactions Listed in Vaccine Package Inserts”
Package inserts are available online for all vaccines licensed in the U.S. In addition to containing bits of practical information for the clinicians who administer the vaccines, the inserts provide members of the public with one of their only opportunities to learn about a vaccine’s contraindications, warnings, precautions and—perhaps most importantly—potential adverse reactions. The inserts communicate 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…
Children’s Health Defense reports “Vaccine Fundamentalism—War Metaphors in the Covid-19 Response, Vaccine Policy, and Public Health”
Public health officials themselves disseminate the war mentality with the repeated message: We are at war with an invisible enemy that must be eradicated. War mentality emphasizes the need for self-sacrifice in order to stop Covid-19 spread. And the weapons of war are glorified; public health authorities glorify its chief weapon of vaccination. A further examination of the…
USA Today reports “Defeat COVID-19 by requiring vaccination for all. It’s not un-American, it’s patriotic.”
Make vaccines free, don’t allow religious or personal objections, and punish those who won’t be vaccinated. They are threatening the lives of others. To win the war against the novel coronavirus that has now killed over 158,000 people in this country, the only answer is compulsory vaccination — for all of us. And while the measures that…
Axios reports “The NIH claims joint ownership of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine”
The National Institutes of Health may own intellectual property that undergirds a leading coronavirus vaccine being developed by Moderna, according to documents obtained by Axios and an analysis from Public Citizen. The big picture: The NIH mostly funds outside research, but it also often invents basic scientific technologies that are later licensed out and incorporated into drugs that are sold at massive profits….
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…
The Dark Side of Vaccines reports “How to End Vaccine Hesitancy”
Is this decline in confidence responsible for an increase in vaccine hesitancy? And if so, what can be done to remedy this situation? Turning our attention to vaccine policy, there are several areas in which improvements can be made to strengthen vaccine programs and, in doing so, increase public confidence in immunizations in general.