OSHA Revises Employer Guidelines on COVID Vaccine Reactions to Avoid “Appearance” of Discouraging Vaccination
As an increasing number of employers including restaurants, colleges and health care facilities are requiring the COVID-19 vaccine, many employers are looking to the federal Occupational Safety and Hazard Administration (OSHA), among other government agencies, for guidance on how to proceed with COVID-19 vaccination protocols.
Eric Clapton: “I Should Never Have Gone Near the Needle”
Opinion | In a recent letter shared on the social media messaging app Telegram, legendary British rock and blues guitarist Eric Clapton described the ‘severe reactions” he suffered after getting the first and second doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford University’s experimental AZD1222 vaccine for COVID-19. Clapton, 76, who received the first dose of the vaccine in February […]
Israel Studying Possible Link Between Heart Inflammation and Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 Shot
The Israeli Health Ministry is evaluating cases of heart inflammation in people in Israel who have received Pfizer/BioNTech’s experimental messenger RNA (mRNA) BNT162b2 vaccine for COVID-19. In a preliminary study, led by Dror Mevorach, MD head of one of the COVID-19 units at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in Jerusalem, 62 cases of myocarditis—inflammation of the […]
U.S. Government Partnering With Community Leaders to Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed an initiative called “The
Study Finds Higher Risk of Blood Clots With AstraZeneca/Oxford University’s COVID-19 Vaccine
A new cohort study published in the British medical journal The BMJ on May 5, 2021 found increased rates of blood clots
Demand for COVID-19 Vaccines Declines As Eligibility Expands
As eligibility for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) COVID-19 vaccines expands to people 16 years and older, many counties in the United States are starting to experience a decline in demand for the vaccines.1 Carlos Del Rio, MD, professor at the Emory University School of Medicine said, “I worry that we’re rapidly transitioning our country from […]