Category: AMERICA

Elevated Rate of Facial Paralysis Identified After Pfizer COVID-19 Booster in Elderly: FDA

An elevated rate of Bell’s palsy was identified among elderly people after vaccination with a Pfizer booster shot, U.S. regulators said in a new study. The “small but statistically significant elevation” in Bell’s palsy was detected after vaccination with Pfizer’s old booster, which is no longer available in the United States, researchers with the U.S….


DOD Awards New $3 Million Grant to EcoHealth Alliance Group Tied to Wuhan Lab

The Department of Defense (DOD) in December awarded a $3 million grant to EcoHealth Alliance Inc, the nonprofit organization that for years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic funneled money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. The DOD awarded the approximately $2,987,827.07 grant to EcoHealth beginning Dec. 12 for the purpose of “reducing the threat of viral spillover from wildlife…


CDC Officials Who Spread Misinformation Apologized to Source of False Data but Not to Public: Emails

U.S. health officials who spread inflated COVID-19 child death data in public meetings apologized to the source of the false data but not to the public, newly obtained emails show. Drs. Katherine Fleming-Dutra and Sara Oliver, with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), offered the false data in 2022 while U.S. officials…


House Ways and Means Committee Chair Calls for Probe Into ‘$60 Billion’ in Fake COVID-19 Unemployment Claims

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) is calling for an investigation into the “historic theft of taxpayer dollars from COVID-era unemployment programs” after a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that as much as $60 billion may have been spent on fraudulent claims for unemployment insurance during the pandemic. The report, released on Jan. 23, said…


A Big Change to COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy Could Be Coming Soon, FDA Documents Show

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday released briefing documents for a key advisory meeting to be held on Thursday that show the agency wants to simplify the current COVID-19 vaccination strategy to be more like an annual flu shot. The FDA’s proposal, as outlined in the documents, is to simplify COVID-19 vaccine composition and…


Big Change to COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy Might Be Coming Soon, FDA Documents Show

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to simplify the current COVID-19 vaccination strategy to be more like an annual flu shot, according to briefing documents released on Jan. 23 ahead of a key advisory meeting to be held on Jan. 26. The FDA’s proposal, as outlined in the documents, is to simplify COVID-19 vaccine composition and…


State Moves to Revoke Dr. Ryan Cole’s License for Prescribing Ivermectin, COVID-19 Vaccine Comments

Washington state’s medical commission has brought charges against Dr. Ryan Cole, a pathologist, over alleged false and misleading statements about COVID-19 vaccines and his prescribing of ivermectin to treat COVID-19. The Washington Medical Commission announced the allegations on Jan. 18 against Cole after receiving complaints about Cole’s conduct. Cole lives in Idaho but is licensed…


Vaccine-Injured Need Support as Number of Suicides Climb: Brianne Dressen

People injured by COVID-19 vaccines are in great need of support from family and friends, the head of a nonprofit that aims to provide that support says. “I don’t think people realize that, if you’re not supporting someone that you know that’s injured, most likely nobody else is either,” Brianne Dressen, head of React19, told…


5 Ways to Boost Your Immune System and Prevent COVID-19

While the world slowly reopens amid the ongoing pandemic, confirmed cases of COVID-19 infections in China are becoming more severe including among younger people, and many have experienced the virus more than once. How do we deal with this ever-mutating virus? Yang Jingduan, an American integrated medical expert, proposed some measures to help boost the…


CDC Left Serious Adverse Events Off Post-Vaccination Surveys Despite Knowledge of Possible Link, Documents Show

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) didn’t include serious adverse events like heart inflammation on post-vaccination surveys even though the agency knew the issues could be linked to COVID-19 vaccines, documents show. Even before the surveys were rolled out in December 2020 after the first vaccines were authorized, the CDC knew that…