U.S. Government is Funding Gain-of-Function Research in China to Make Bird Flu More Infectious
The U.S government is again funding gain-of-function (GoF) research with Chinese scientists to make a dangerous virus even more potent. This time it is with birds not bats. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) gave $1 million to fund risky research on bird flu viruses to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China; the […]
BARDA Awards $9.27 Million Contract to Evaluate Oral Pill COVID Vaccine
Biotechnology firm Vaxart, Inc. announced on Jan. 19, 2024 that it received a $9.27 million contract from the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to fund preparations for a Phase IIb clinical trial to evaluate the company’s oral pill XXB COVID-19 vaccine candidate. The trial is expected to involve 10,000 participants and will […]
Study: Children at Increased Risk of Serious Adverse Reactions to COVID-19 Shots
According to a new study conducted in Norway, children face an increased risk of serious adverse reactions following receipt of mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) COVID-19 shots. The study, which is awaiting peer review, found that children 12 years of age and older, who received the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna/NIAID mRNA COVID shots, are at higher risk […]
Evidence of DNA Contamination in mRNA Shots Prompts Call for Halting Their Use
On Dec. 6, 2023, Florida’s Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD, wrote a letter to the commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Robert Califf, MD, requesting that an investigation be launched into the alleged DNA contamination in Pfizer/BioNTech’s Comirnaty and Moderna/NIAID’s Spikevax mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) COVID shots. Not satisfied with the […]
COVID Vaccinated Children More Likely to Be Hospitalized for Respiratory Illness
A recent study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) found that more than half of the children treated at emergency departments (EDs) and hospitalized for respiratory illness between July 1, 2022 and Sept. 30, 2023 had been vaccinated for COVID-19, compared to […]
Florida Surgeon General, Scientist Warn of Cancer Risk Linked to mRNA COVID Shots Contaminated With DNA
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD is raising concerns about the potential for the mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) COVID shots to cause cancer because the product reportedly is contaminated with viral DNA. Phillip Buckhaults, PhD, professor of cancer molecular genetics at the University of South Carolina, has issued a similar warning about the risks […]