Category: AMERICA

Many People with Long COVID Experienced Mild Infection: Study

A global analysis found that around 90 percent of long-COVID cases occur in individuals who were not hospitalized for COVID-19. In a commentary published in January 2023, the authors of the study concluded that this would suggest that most people with long COVID experienced a mild infection. The data come from a global study that analyzed…


California’s COVID-19 Gag Law Is ‘First Effort to Suppress’ Doctors: Lawyer

California’s controversial COVID-19 misinformation law, which bars doctors from providing “misinformation” or “disinformation” related to COVID-19, is an unprecedented effort by those in power to block doctors from sharing their views on COVID-19 topics, including on vaccines, with their patients, an attorney says. And lawmakers had pivoted the initial bill from its true, intended purpose…


FDA Advisers Back COVID-19 Vaccine Pivot in Move Toward Annual Shot

Experts who advise the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on immunizations were supportive on Jan. 26 of a planned pivot on COVID-19 vaccines. Members of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted to recommend the FDA stop using the original vaccines, which only target the obsolete Wuhan strain, in favor of new bivalent…


Judge Blocks California’s COVID-19 Misinformation Law

A California judge on Wednesday halted the state’s so-called COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation law, which was challenged by doctors in two lawsuits, claiming it violates their constitutional rights. In Hoeg v. Newsom, five doctors alleged that the state law, AB 2098, is unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. A separate related lawsuit, Hoang v. Bonta, makes…


Los Angeles County Extends COVID Eviction Ban Again, Following City of LA

Following in the footsteps of the Los Angeles City Council earlier this week, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has voted to extend the COVID-19 era emergency protections for renters—this time for for another two months. The protections were set to expire on Jan. 31. Under the emergency order, tenants eligible for such protection…


Heart, Vein Disease Deaths High in 25–44-Year-Olds

Diseases of the heart and veins claimed more lives over the past several years among American aged 25 to 44 than before the COVID-19 pandemic. Even with the pandemic waning, such deaths remained elevated. In 2020, the first year of the pandemic, deaths caused by circulatory diseases increased by about 15 percent in the 25–44…


Heart, Vein Disease Deaths High in 25 to 44-Year-Olds

Diseases of the heart and veins claimed more lives over the past several years among American aged 25 to 44 than before the COVID-19 pandemic. Even with the pandemic waning, such deaths remain elevated. In 2020, the first year of the pandemic, deaths caused by circulatory diseases increased by about 15 percent in the 25…


COVID Boosters: Why Many Physicians Consider Them Unreasonable for Young People

While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend a bivalent booster for anyone over the age of 6 months, some physicians disagree. This includes clinicians who discourage all COVID-19 vaccinations, and also those who endorse the primary shots but have reservations about boosting. Dr. Paul…


FDA Rushed Approval for Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine to Enable Vaccine Mandates: Emails

U.S. regulators sped up the approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to enable vaccine mandates, according to newly released emails. Pfizer and BioNTech asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in May 2021 to approve their vaccine. Regulators said publicly that the review of the Biologics License Application would likely be done by January 2022, but…


Insurance Industry Has a ‘Moral Duty’ to Help Prevent COVID Vaccine Injury: Josh Stirling

Two years on from the rollout of the first COVID-19 vaccines, public health data have begun to show a disturbing trend in excess deaths that has insurance research analyst Josh Stirling sounding the alarm. “The more [vaccine] doses on average you have in a region within the United States, the bigger increase in mortality that…