FDA Won’t Add “Black Box” Warning to COVID-19 Shots
News outlets have recently reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was considering adding a box warning (known for many years as a “Black Box” warning) to COVID-19 shots. A boxed warning appears prominently at the top of a drug’s prescribing information and represents the FDA’s strongest safety alert. The agency uses it […]
Flip-Flopping Religious Exemptions for West Virginia School Children
West Virginia government officials have been at war over religious exemptions to vaccine mandates for school-aged children. In November 2025, a district court issued a permanent injunction against a vaccine mandate that refused to allow for religious exemptions for school-aged children. Raleigh County Circuit Court Judge Michael Froble found that it was a violation of […]
U.S. Stillbirth Rates 17 Percent Higher Than CDC Reporting
A significant number of stillbirths are happening in pregnancies the medical system labels as safe and at a higher rate in the U.S. than previously reported, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Mass General Brigham. The study, published in JAMA on Oct. 27, 2025, […]
University of Colorado Medical School Settles COVID-19 Shot Lawsuit for $10.3 Million
The University of Colorado’s Anschutz School of Medicine will pay $10.3 million to 18 former employees who lost their jobs after refusing to take the COVID-19 shot. The medical school agreed to the settlement after an Appellate Court found that their policy of denying employee’s religious exemptions to the COVID-19 mandate were unconstitutional.1 2 The […]
Tens of Millions of Americans Experienced COVID-19 Shot Side Effects
It has been nearly five years since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fast-tracked the COVID-19 mRNA biologic and distributed it under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommending the COVID shot for every American. This was followed by many workplaces and universities across the […]
FDA Official Ties Deaths of 10 Children to COVID-19 Shots
On Nov. 28, 2025, Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer and Director of FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), issued an internal memorandum to FDA staff regarding an FDA investigation into child deaths associated with mRNA COVID-19 shots. The FDA concluded that federally recommended COVID shots have been related to […]