Pharma Developing Bird Flu Vaccine for Humans As Animals Get Sick
Pharmaceutical companies GSK (formerly known as GlaxoSmithKline), Moderna and CSL Seqirus announced that they are developing and ready to test human vaccines against avian influenza H5N1 (also known as bird flu) as a precautionary measure to prepare for what they believe may be a future pandemic.1 Now that certain strains of H5N1 have infected not […]
Government Buys 1.5 Million More Doses of Novavax’s COVID Vaccine
Biotechnology company Novavax announced that it has made a modification to an existing contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Defense (DoD) to provide up to 1.5 million more doses of its Nuvaxovid COVID-19 vaccine (also known as “NVX-CoV2373” and “Covovax”), in addition to the 3.2 million […]
Millions Harmed by Medical Misdiagnosis in U.S. Hospital Emergency Rooms
A new study published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on Dec. 15, 2022 estimates that about six percent of the approximately 130 million people (about one in 18 individuals) who seek medical care in emergency departments (ED) in the United States each year are […]
CDC Advisory Panel Recommends Adding COVID Shots to Child Vaccination Schedule Without FDA License for Use in Children Under 12
On Oct. 20, 2022, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 15-0 to add the mRNA COVID-19 shots to the list of vaccines recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for children as young as six months old, even though no COVID vaccine has been officially licensed by the U.S. […]
Getting a Flu Shot and COVID Bivalent Booster Together
Despite President Biden’s recent admission that the COVID-19 pandemic is over, the White House is making another big push to encourage Americans to get yet another COVID booster shot. This time, the Biden administration is marketing the COVID Bivalent versions of messenger RNA (mRNA) Comirnaty and Spikevax biologics developed by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna/NIAID respectively.1 2 […]
Compulsory Vaccination of U.S. Armed Forces Remains Controversial
In 1777, George Washington led the first mandatory military vaccination program when he directed soldiers of the Continental Army to be inoculated against smallpox. Soldiers had the option of voluntarily exposing themselves to the smallpox pustules either by scratching their arms or inhaling it through their noses.1 The story of George Washington being the first […]