Hospitals Giving Flu Shots to Unconscious Children Under Anesthesia
Hospitals are now giving children flu shots after they have been given anesthesia and are unconscious. At Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, it is standard protocol for a nurse to ask the health care provider on the day of the procedure whether the child can be vaccinated while under anesthesia.1 The shot has nothing to […]
Federal Appeals Court Questions Judge’s Block of Kennedy’s Vaccine Advisory Committee Appointments
A U.S. federal appeals court has questioned the authority of a Massachusetts judge who suspended 13 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a federal vaccine advisory committee appointed by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit heard […]
Fauci, NIAID Helped Fund Army Experiment With Aerosolized Ebola
Newly released records from a U.S. Senate investigation show that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) paid for and helped plan U.S. Army research in which vaccinated nonhuman primates were exposed to aerosolized Ebola virus.1 The work took place while Anthony Fauci, MD directed the agency, a post he held for 38 […]
Florida AG Sues Pfizer and CEO, Alleging COVID Shot Safety Risks Were Concealed
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed suit against Pfizer, Inc. and its chief executive, Albert Bourla on Oct. 1, 2026. The complaint alleges the defendants violated the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act (FDUTPA).1 2 The 49-page complaint filed in the Circuit Court of the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit in St. Lucie County describes a […]
Ninth Circuit Court Revives Oregon Nurse’s COVID Shot Religious Exemption Claim
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of a religious discrimination lawsuit filed against PeaceHealth by a registered nurse who was placed on indefinite unpaid leave for refusing the COVID-19 shot.1 The Court of Appeals ruled that the district court was required to read the nurse’s written religious exemption letter before concluding her […]
Healthy Volunteers in Canada Paid to Be Infected With Influenza in Government-Funded Research
A new study registered with ClinicalTrials.gov is deliberately exposing healthy adults to a live influenza A(H3N2) virus in Canada. Health Canada’s Biologic and Radiopharmaceutical Drugs Directorate has approved the H3N2 challenge strain for use in humans specifically for the purposes of the study. The study is not evaluating a vaccine or other biologic, rather it’s […]