CDC Says Overweight People Need Longer Needles for Vaccinations
If you were among the many who experienced a breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infection despite getting a COVID-19 shot (or two or three), federal health officials suggest that—if you are overweight or obese—the length of the needle used to inject you might be to blame, not vaccine failure. New recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control […]
U.S. Spends the Most on Health Care, Has Worst Health Outcomes
Despite the United States spending twice as much money on health care, the health of Americans is worse than other high income nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), according to a 2023 report by the Commonwealth Fund.1 In 2021, the U.S. expenditure for health care was $11,912 per person. Germany was […]
Merck’s COVID Anti-Viral Drug May Cause SAR-CoV-2 to Mutate
Scientists have found evidence to suggest that an anti-viral COVID-19 drug manufactured by Merck & Co. being used to treat COVID may be causing the SARS-CoV-2 virus to mutate and create new variants of the virus for which humans could have no immunity.1 The mechanism of action of the drug molnupiravir, a pill also sold […]
Survey Finds 50 Percent of Americans Will Not Get Influenza Vaccine
A recent survey, which was conducted by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) to better understand the public’s attitudes and beliefs about influenza, COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and pneumococcal disease, found that many adults in the United States are not concerned about these respiratory diseases. As a result, many Americans do not plan […]
DoD Will Pay $1.8 Million for Legal Fees of Troops in COVID Vaccine Mandate Cases
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has settled two lawsuits with military service members who challenged the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.1 Pursuant to Settlement Agreement signed in the middle district of Florida, DoD will pay Liberty Counsel $1.8 million to cover attorney’s fees, costs and other litigation expenses that accumulated when the military service […]
Nobel Prize Goes to Dubious mRNA Research Used to Develop COVID Shots
On Oct. 2, 2023, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to scientists Katalin Karikó, PhD and Drew Weissman, MD, PhD “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.” The mRNA (messenger RNA) “vaccines”—which […]