“Unjected” Dating App for Unvaccinated People Faces Backlash for Hosting Singles Meetups
A Denver, Colorado venue canceled an upcoming singles event called The Freedom Mixer for the unvaccinated community due to “safety concerns,” multiple news outlets have reported. The event, organized by Unjected, a dating app launched in 2021 and “built on creating health-conscious relationships with those who share like-minded values and the convictions to remain unvaccinated,” […]
Colorado Appellate Court Sides With Employers Mandating COVID-19 Shots
The 10th Circuit court in Denver, Colorado sided with employers in two lawsuits brought by workers who were fired for refusing to comply with a COVID-19 shot mandate by their employers. The Colorado based Appellate Court had consolidated the two cases challenging health care workplace COVID shot mandates and sided with the employers.1 In the […]
Some States Take Action to Separate Access to Vaccines from Federal Recommendations
As U.S. federal government vaccine policy shifts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the direction of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., some state legislators are proposing legislation that separates access to vaccines from federal vaccine use recommendations.1 Under HHS Secretary Kennedy, sweeping changes have already […]
Young Girl Denied Heart Transplant Over Refusal to Get COVID and Flu Shots
The mother of a 12-year-old girl said an Ohio children’s hospital denied her daughter a spot on an organ transplant list due to her vaccination status, specifically the COVID-19 and flu shots. The mother, Jeneen Deal, who is related to Vice President J.D. Vance’s half-siblings through marriage, adopted Adeline from China when she was just […]
Gates Foundation Awards $8.6 Million to Expand Development of Multi-Dose Pediatric Vaccines Using Novel Adjuvants
On Dec. 5, 2024, formulation technology company VitriVax, Inc. of Boulder, Colorado was awarded a two-year, $3.6 million grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help “fund development of a polio vaccine formulation for possible inclusion in combination pediatric vaccines.” “We are honored to be part of the global drive to protect children […]
Texas Man and Dairy Cattle Test Positive for Bird Flu
A man in Texas has tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu after direct exposure to infected dairy cattle. While this is the second recent case of bird flu identified in humans in the United States, it is the first time the disease has been found in dairy cattle.1 The first case of H5N1 in […]