Physician-investigators at King Fahad University Hospital in Khobar, Eastern Province Saudi Arabia recently conducted a study, the largest of its kind, linking rare COVID-19 vaccine-related injuries and incidence of new onset of autoimmune disease, including systemic...
Georgia Congressman Advocates for COVID-19 Vaccine Injured Constituents
Mainstream media now intensifies not only its willingness to start reporting on COVID-19 vaccine injuries but active investigational efforts to report on the mounting crisis. Take WXIA-TV, a local Atlanta-area television station and NBC affiliate owned by Tegna...
Who Should Get a Covid Booster Now? New Data Offers Some Clarity.
If you are high-risk, the answer is straightforward. If you are low-risk, there is less consensus. By Dana G. Smith Three years into the pandemic, it has become evident that Covid-19 isn’t going anywhere, and neither are vaccine boosters. Last week, an advisory...
F.D.A. Outlines a Plan for Annual Covid Boosters
In advance of a scientific meeting on Thursday, officials proposed offering new shots to Americans each fall, a strategy long employed against the flu. By Apoorva Mandavilli Americans may be offered a single dose of a Covid vaccine each fall, much as they are given...
NEW EMAILS: Biden White House Behind Facebook Censorship of The BMJ’s Pfizer Investigation
Months before The BMJ released investigation, Facebook emailed the White House they would take action against “true content” on vaccines. By Paul D. Thacker Late 2021, I wrote a bombshell BMJ investigation that found data integrity problems in Pfizer’s...
Bivalent Covid-19 Vaccines — A Cautionary Tale
By Paul A. Offit, M.D. In November 2019, a bat coronavirus made its debut in humans in Wuhan, China. Two months later, the original strain of SARS-CoV-2, called the Wuhan-1 or ancestral strain, was isolated and sequenced. It was now possible to make a vaccine. All the...
How Will Pharma Allies Discredit Former Head of Australia Medical Association After She Testified On COVID-19 Vaccine Harms and Physician Censorship?
Medical groups and “disinformation reporters” have silenced those speaking up about vaccines side effects, so what tactic will they take with Dr. Kerryn Phelps? By Paul D. Thacker Ask any doctor or researcher even vaguely connected to vaccines to identify the third...
NFL Player Damar Hamlin’s Cardiac Arrest Triggers Unfounded Social Media Claims
By Jessica McDonald SciCheck Digest Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field and suffered a cardiac arrest moments after taking a hit to his chest during a tackle. While it’s not yet known why his heart stopped, some experts say his condition is...
Will 2024 Be a Vaccine Election?
By Paul Krugman, Opinion Columnist Will Republicans once again nominate Donald Trump for president? Or will they turn to Ron DeSantis instead? I have no idea. What I do know is that anyone imagining DeSantis as a more sensible, saner figure than Trump — a right-wing...
A Covid-19 Milestone Attained — A Correlate of Protection for Vaccines
By Peter B. Gilbert, Ph.D., et al. The rapid identification of a correlate of protection (CoP) for Covid-19 vaccines — on the basis of several harmonized randomized phase 3 trials using common validated assays — constitutes an important success in vaccinology. A CoP...
The End of Vaccines at ‘Warp Speed’
Financial and bureaucratic barriers in the United States mean that the next generation of Covid vaccines may well be designed here, but used elsewhere. By Benjamin Mueller Operation Warp Speed, the Trump-era program that poured billions of dollars into developing...
Will Covid Boosters Prevent Another Wave? Scientists Aren’t So Sure.
The shots may help vulnerable Americans dodge serious illness or death. But some experts believe boosters must be improved and are calling for a new strategy. By Apoorva Mandavilli As winter looms and Americans increasingly gather indoors without masks or social...
Moderna Says New Covid Booster Strengthens Immune Response Against Subvariants
A study suggested that the updated booster shot produced higher levels of neutralizing antibodies against the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 than the first booster, the company said. By Sharon LaFraniere A new study by Moderna suggests that its updated coronavirus...
COVID booster may lower protection against omicron reinfection, study finds. Here’s why
BY JULIA MARNIN A COVID-19 booster, specifically a third vaccine dose, may lower protection against getting infected with the omicron variant again for some people — and there’s a reason why, new findings suggest. In contrast, two vaccine doses, followed by an initial...
New Booster Shot Targets Covid Variants More Effectively, Pfizer Says
Federal officials are hoping that encouraging new findings will spur more Americans to get an updated booster before a feared surge in coronavirus cases this winter. By Sharon LaFraniere A new study by Pfizer and BioNTech suggests that their updated coronavirus...