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 […]
Data on Myocarditis Risk from COVID-19 Shots Hidden
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH recently said in a prepared statement that the Biden administration withheld data on heart inflammation risks from the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. The statement was made less than a week after the FDA’s top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH confirmed that at least […]
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, […]
U.K. School Lockdowns Return Amid “Super Flu” Surge Reports
A “super-flu” strain is being reported across the United Kingdom, prompting several schools to close and increasing admissions to hospitals as influenza infection rates rise.1 The outbreak involves a mutation of the influenza A virus known as either H3N2 or as subclade K, emerging earlier in the winter than usual and contributing to disruption across […]
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 […]