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 […]
Over $80M BARDA Prize to Create New H5N1 Vaccines to Prepare for “Future” Bird Flu Pandemic
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has launched an $80+ million multi-stage competition for “vaccine developers and researchers, biotech companies, and other innovators” to develop vaccines for pandemic influenza A, or A(H5) bird flu, which includes highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1). The name of the competition is Single Shield Prize, and it “calls […]
Tamiflu Found to Be Ineffective, May Increase Mortality in Patients Critically Ill With Influenza
A randomized clinical trial posted as a preprint on July 27, 2026, found that treatment with oseltamivir, commonly known by the brand name Tamiflu, is not only ineffective, but highly likely to increase 90-day mortality in critically ill patients with influenza. Researchers enrolled 442 critically ill patients aged 12 and older with laboratory-confirmed influenza between […]
Splitting Up the Combination Vaccines
President Trump announced on Sept. 18, 2026 that his administration plans to recommend that certain childhood vaccines be split up into separate shots. The policy proposal is apparently a follow-up to an Executive Order the President signed on Aug. 10 that calls for recommending the number of diseases for which children should be vaccinated be […]
Connecticut Changed Its Law to End a Vaccine Religious Exemption Case
Superior Court Judge Edward T. Krumeich dismissed the last remaining claim in a four-year legal challenge to Connecticut’s removal of the religious belief vaccine exemption from state laws requiring school attendance. The judge’s decision did not address whether the ban on religious vaccine exemptions violated the law. Rather, the decision was based on the fact […]
Government Investigation Examines Potential Link Between COVID Shots and Troop Deaths
Army Lieutenant Colonel Theresa Long said in a Virginia federal court that she is reviewing 55,000 troop adverse-event reports and 2,544 troop death reports to determine if any were linked to COVID-19 shots.1 Dr. Long, a board-certified aerospace medicine physician and flight surgeon who holds a master’s degree in public health, said in an Aug. […]