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…
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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…
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…
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…
Organic Consumers Association reports “COVID-19: Restoring Public Trust During A Global Health Crisis”
‘This Is Not Okay’ – A COVID Story Last year, the fear of God was put in my 80-year-old mother’s mind. She was babysitting for my brother and had a routine doctor’s visit during which she was told that she needs to stop babysitting immediately. “I don’t think you understand. If you get this virus,…
New York Post reports “FDA, CDC rules Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine pause can be lifted”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration said Friday that vaccine providers should resume their use of the Johnson and Johnson jab — after the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended it was safe to do so. The CDC and the FDA said J&J’s one-dose shot should be made available as…
GreenMedInfo OpEd “A Vaccine Discussion for All of the People: An Open Letter”
In recent years, our local health boards have become heavily invested in advancing legislation and imposing ordinances geared toward restricting the rights of citizens in the name of public health. This is particularly true when it comes to vaccine mandates and our right to refuse. Aggressive top-down vaccination campaigns have hijacked public health discussions, making it increasingly…
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
Stand for Health Freedom reports “CDC Data Disaster”
In March 2020, the CDC abruptly changed how death certificates were recorded. While this might seem like a mere formality, the CDC only made this change for one type of death — COVID-19 — and circumvented multiple federal laws to do so. Join our panel of experts — researchers, doctors, lawyers, medical ethicists, educators and…
Swiss Policy Research reports “Are Face Masks Effective? The Evidence.”
An overview of the current evidence regarding the effectiveness of face masks. So far, most studies found little to no evidence for the effectiveness of cloth face masks in the general population, neither as personal protective equipment nor as a source control. A May 2020 meta-study on pandemic influenza published by the US CDC found that face…