Why are Standards So Lax on COVID Drug Approvals?
Many scientists made a career fighting for better regulatory standards. Strangely, when it comes to the regulatory policy around COVID-19, they are dead quiet. First, consider that EUA ( emergency use authorization) is like accelerated approval. Both require lower levels of evidence, and are predicated on the fact that we’re dealing with a situation that […]
College Student Expelled for Refusing COVID Booster After Previous Severe Reactions
A student at Union College was unenrolled and forced to leave the campus in upstate New York after she refused to take a COVID-19 booster shot. The pre-med biology and Spanish language student suffered severe adverse reactions after receiving the first series of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID shots in the fall.1 Sophomore Ellie Puentes is a first-generation […]
CDC Used Cell Phone Data to Track Americans During Lockdowns and COVID Vaccination Campaigns
The cell phones of tens of millions of Americans were tracked by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials, who used location data to ensure compliance with COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccination campaigns according to Vice, which was able to obtain internal documents through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).1 The CDC used the […]
Canada Blocks Unvaccinated People from Boarding Airplanes and Trains
In August 2021, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he would implement a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for domestic and international air travelers, inter-provincial rail and cruise ship passengers.1 According to The Globe and Mail, Canada has one of the highest COVID vaccination rates in the world. At least 73 percent of people eligible for […]
How Politics Corrupted Science: Dr. Vinay Prasad on COVID
As we’re entering this new phase of the pandemic, the CDC dropping its universal indoor masking guidelines at the end of February, we’re beginning to finally, at least some of us hope, look at this in the rearview, and I want to start with the big picture of what we see there and then move […]
The Triumph of Natural Immunity
Opinion | A new CDC study shows that around 75% of American children have already had COVID-19. That means that they have strong natural immunity that protects them from SARS-CoV-2 infections as they get older. Despite this, the CDC, the FDA and other government agencies are pushing all of them to get vaccinated. Why? One […]
