Vaccination Rates Decline Worldwide
Vaccination rates have significantly decreased around the world from pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels, according to a 2023 immunization coverage report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF last month. The report, released on July 14, 2024, is the world’s most extensive dataset on vaccination trends targeting 14 diseases. This report analyzed estimates from 185 […]
Vaccine Strain Poliovirus Detected in Gaza Sewage—WHO Sending a Million Doses of Polio Vaccine
In response to a statement last week by the Palestinian Ministry of Health declaring that the Gaza Strip is “epidemic area“ for polio, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced it will send more than one million doses of polio vaccine to be administered over the next few weeks even though the poliovirus detected in Palestine […]
Court Orders Store to Pay $110,000 to Employee Fired for Refusing COVID Shots
In 2021, an Arkansas-based furniture retailer Hank’s Fine Furniture, Inc. with 18 branch stores in four states, violated U.S. federal law by denying a religious exemption to Florida assistant store manager Kaitlyn M. O’Neal for her religious beliefs opposed to getting COVID-19 shots. O’Neal was terminated from her position because she refused to comply with the company’s COVID […]
CDC’s Independence, Integrity Compromised by Funding from Private Industry
On its website, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) boasts a “Pledge to the American People” that outlines five commitments. Among these commitments is one to place the benefits to society above the benefits to the government agency. This prohibits employees “from participating in matters that post a conflict of interest or […]
Appellate Court Tosses Out 1,200 Shingles Vaccine Injury Lawsuits Against Merck
The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals dismissed approximately 1,200 lawsuits filed against Merck & Co. over its shingles vaccine, Zostavax. The Appellate Court upheld a U.S. District Court ruling that threw out the lawsuits for failing to abide by a court order requiring them to provide clinical test results.1 Zostavax, the first shingles vaccine […]
Navy Members’ COVID Vaccine Case Against Biden Administration is Settled
In 2021, during the height of the pandemic, COVID numbers were high, masks were a new norm, and the vaccine was given across the country. For military members, they were required to get the COVID-19 shots. Some asked for religious exemptions and dozens of Navy Seals filed a lawsuit against President Biden, the Department of […]