CDC Director Nominee Declared “Unfit” for Politicizing Science
With Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH set to officially leave her post as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on June 30, 2023, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to President Biden’s proposed nominee—Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH—to head up that agency. Apart from the initial media reports of the intended […]
Most COVID Vaccine Injury Claims Not Compensated
The U.S. government has received thousands of COVID-19 vaccine injury claims. As of May 31, 2023, 8,208 people had filed requests for compensation with the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) after developing serious health problems following COVID shots.1 The CICP has only adjudicated 749 of the 8,208 injury […]
FDA Revokes EUA for Johnson & Johnson/Janssen’s COVID Vaccine
On June 1, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) withdrew the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) Johnson & Johnson/Janssen’s adenovirus vectored Ad26.COV2.S (also known as JNJ-78436735) COVID-19 vaccine that had been granted to the companies on Feb. 27, 2021. The FDA noted that Janssen requested the voluntary withdrawal of the EUA in a letter […]
Some Doctors Say mRNA COVID Shots May Cause Tinnitus
Following the publication of a study in the journal JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery on Feb. 24, 2022 that found a possible association between Pfizer/BioNTech’s Comirnaty messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 shot and sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL), The Vaccine Reaction published an article about the study. The retrospective cohort study involved 2 ,602, 557 patients in Israel […]
More U.S. Parents Reject HPV Vaccine Over Safety Concerns
A growing number of parents in the U.S. are choosing not to vaccinate their adolescent children for human papillomavirus (HPV), according to a new study published in the June 2023 edition of the journal Pediatrics.1 The study identified HPV vaccine uptake trends in an effort to develop strategies to combat increasing vaccine hesitancy. The researchers […]
New York Repeals COVID Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers
New York health officials have repealed the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers. This state public health law reversal came only minutes before oral arguments in a lawsuit brought by health care workers challenging the COVID vaccine mandate were set to be heard before the New York state Appeals Court in Rochester, NY.1 New […]