CDC Adds COVID Shots to Recommended Vaccine Schedules for Children and Adults
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated recommended vaccine schedules for children, adolescents and adults to include the COVID-19 biologics. The move is consistent with recommendations made by the agency’s Advisory Committee on Vaccine Practices (ACIP) in October 2022.1 2 3 4 5 The update of the recommended vaccination schedules was […]
Rhode Island Supreme Court Issues Temporary Stay Protecting Children from COVID Vaccination
The Rhode Island Supreme Court sided with a father who does not want his daughter to be vaccinated for COVID-19 in the first case of a parental disagreement over a COVID-19 shot to reach the highest court in a state. The court issued a temporary stay preventing the mother from giving the party’s two daughters […]
Florida Reports 1,700 Percent Increase in Vaccine Adverse Reactions Reported to VAERS
The Florida Department of Health (DOH) and the State Surgeon General of Florida Joseph A. Ladapo, MD, PhD announced that the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) showed a significant increase in reports of COVID-19 vaccine adverse reactions in Florida in the years since the introduction of COVID biologics.1 According to the DOH, since the […]
Study Shows mRNA Can Persist in the Body Up to 28 Days
A new study from Denmark shows that the messenger RNA (mRNA) genetic material, which instructs the body’s cells to make the SAR-CoV-2 spike protein, can be found in the blood as long as 28 days after vaccination with Pfizer/BioNTech’s Comirnaty or Moderna/NIAID Spikevax mRNA COVID1-9 biologics. These findings stand in direct contrast to claims by […]
Health Care Staff Shortages a “National Emergency”
Hospitals and other health care facilities in the United States are suffering a workforce shortage, a crisis that was brewing before the COVID-19 pandemic but has only been amplified since then. The American Hospital Association (AHA) calls the shortages a “national emergency” and, although it is most acute in the nursing field, the effects are […]
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 […]
