Trials of Oxford University’s coronavirus vaccine have been put on hold after a British volunteer was rushed to hospital with suspected swelling in their spinal cord. UK drug giant AstraZeneca, which owns the rights to the vaccine, announced last night that all studies of the jab had been paused indefinitely while it investigates whether the…
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NY Post reports “AstraZeneca halts COVID-19 vaccine trial after possible serious side effect”
Drug giant AstraZeneca has put its coronavirus-vaccine testing on hold after a study participant suffered a possible serious side effect, a report said Tuesday. The pharmaceutical manufacturer has been testing a potential vaccine it developed with the University of Oxford in Britain, and a UK participant’s suspected negative reaction to it prompted what the company called…
Associated Press reports “UN says new polio outbreak in Sudan caused by oral vaccine”
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…
CNN reports “Past vaccine disasters show why rushing a coronavirus vaccine now would be ‘colossally stupid'”
Vaccine experts are warning the federal government against rushing out a coronavirus vaccine before testing has shown it’s both safe and effective. Decades of history show why they’re right. Their concern that the FDA may be moving too quickly heightened when FDA Commissioner Dr. Steven Hahn told the Financial Times that his agency could consider…
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…
Physicians for Informed Consent reports “Aluminum in Vaccines: What Parents Need To Know”
“The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that the public is very interested in weighing the risks of infectious diseases versus the risks of vaccines,” said Dr. Shira Miller, PIC founder and president. “Parents and the public must become knowledgeable about aluminum in vaccines because even though it is used as an adjuvant in many vaccines,…
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
Dr. Tetyana Obukhanych reports “Do scientists tell us what science tells us about Covid-19 vaccines?”
In 2012, Tseng et al. published a seminal paper in PLoS One describing the effects of several SARS-CoV vaccine candidates on subsequent challenge of research animals with SARS virus. Vaccinated mice developed anti-SARS antibodies and were protected from viral infection upon challenge. However, their lung showed a serious type of immunopathology in response to post-vaccinal virus exposure – pulmonary eosinophilic…
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…