Safety and Effectiveness of New COVID Bivalent Boosters Based on a Study of Eight Mice?
With no safety and efficacy evidence from human clinical trials, on Aug. 31, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amended the Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) for Pfizer/BioNTech’s Comirnaty and Moderna/NIAID’s Spikevax messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 biologics to distribute “bivalent formulations” (two-in-one) of the shots to use as a “single booster dose.”1 2 The […]
Lots of Vaccinated, Boosted San Diegans Die from COVID
San Diego County in California poses a dilemma for the popular narrative that, although the COVID-19 shots may not be prevent infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its variants, the shots will prevent people from developing serious symptoms of COVID and being hospitalized for the disease or dying from it. San Diego confirms in the […]
COVID Shot Requirements in Employment Ads are Decreasing
A new analysis conducted by AnnElizabeth Konkel, an economist at the Indeed Hiring Lab in Austin, Texas, shows that the number of employment advertisements that mentioning a COVID-19 vaccination requirement decreased from 7.1 percent in March 2022 to 5.9 percent in June 2022.1 Konkel said: I believe the downward trend is indicative of whether employers […]
Private Equity Firms Profiting from Increases in Autism
It is no secret that there have been significant increases in the development of autism among children in the U.S. over the past three decades. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) acknowledges that, today, at least one in 44 eight-year-old children have been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)1 and some autism […]
Mercury Project Funds Research to Convince More People to Get COVID Shots
The Mercury Project, a global consortium of researchers dedicated to “combating the impacts of mis- and disinformation on public health,” is being sponsored by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) of Brooklyn, New York. SSRC announced on Aug. 23, 2022 that it will provide $7.2 million in grant funding teams doing behavioral research aimed at […]
Developers of mRNA COVID Shots Spar Over Intellectual Property Rights
Pfizer and BioNTech will have to answer in court to legal claims by Moderna that they copied its innovative messenger RNA (mRNA) technology in the making of their COVID-19 biologic, Comirnaty. The patent infringement lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and the Regional Court of Dusseldorf in Germany alleges that […]