COVID-19 Vaccine Concerns After 23 Deaths in Norway
Australia is urgently seeking answers from the Norwegian government after at least 23 deaths in aged care residents who’d received the Pfizer [COVID-19] vaccine. … Has a clear link been established between the vaccine and the deaths? Investigations are still underway, but Norwegian health authorities believe common adverse reactions to the vaccine such as fever […]
Employers Do Not Have Appetite to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccine
Corporations are looking ahead to what might come next year with the COVID pandemic still out of control. There are many challenges ahead. Among the questions CEOS will need to answer… Should employees be required to take the vaccine before returning to work? According to a recent poll by the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute, […]
Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Causes Painful Side Effects in Patients Who Have Facial Fillers
And an unusual side effect of the Moderna COVID vaccine… But you only have to worry about it if you’ve had certain cosmetic procedures. The FDA advisory committee reviewing the new Moderna vaccine has noted a specific side effect involving several trial participants who had cosmetic facial fillers. … In these cases, the patients all […]
Alaska Health Worker Has Serious Allergic Reaction to Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine
There’s a report from The New York Times that there’s been a severe reaction from a health care worker in Alaska after receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. Now, they report that the person is in stable condition. But the person had been hospitalized after this allergic event. They are citing three people familiar with this event. […]
Coronavirus Vaccine: Why It’s Important to Know What’s in the Placebo
Some researchers conducting clinical trials on a COVID-19 vaccine have not revealed to the public what the placebo contains, but they should. This is because the placebo ingredients influence how effective or harmful the active treatment, with which the placebo is compared, appears. Our new guideline published in PLOS Medicine remedies this problem by providing a […]
Frontline Health Care Workers to Get Coronavirus Vaccine First
Who gets the [COVID-19] vaccine first? It’s the frontline health care workers—the final guidelines for vaccine distribution coming out from the National Academies today. Here’s how they break it down into essentially four groups. First, of course, high-risk workers in health care, first responders… Phase 1b includes high-risk individuals with underlying conditions, also older adults. […]