Category: CDC

CDC’s Advisory Panel to Meet on Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Following FDA Approval

The panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccines will meet to discuss how to handle the newly approved Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. The formal name of the panel is the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). “ACIP will meet (as they did when they recommended the Pfizer vaccine after approval),” a CDC…


CDC’s COVID-19 Mask Guidelines for Children Challenged by House Republicans

House Republicans are challenging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s COVID-19 guidelines for children, including mask requirements in school. Led by House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), the lawmakers penned a letter to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky calling on her to roll back recommendations that children wear masks, citing the harms to mental…


Feed Stores: Livestock Ivermectin Flying off Shelves for Unapproved Human Use

Feed stores around the country are discouraging shoppers from buying ivermectin formulated for livestock, for use in treating or preventing COVID-19 in humans. But despite their strictly worded warnings, they’re finding it’s difficult to keep the products made for horses, cows, sheep, and other animals in stock, workers at retailers specializing in animal products told…


Facts Matter (Jan. 28): FDA Asks Judge To Delay First 55K Batch Of Vaccine Docs; Pfizer Lawyers Move to Intervene in Case

Sweden’s public health agency just put out a statement saying that they reject the idea of children under the age of 12 being forced to get the COVID vaccine. However, here in America, it’s a much different story, because not only has the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved the vaccine for everyone above…


Neil Young Asks Other Artists to Pull Music From Spotify After Joe Rogan Ultimatum

Singer-songwriter Neil Young asked other artists to pull their music from Spotify after pulling his from the streaming service to protest against its hosting of popular podcaster Joe Rogan. Spotify said Wednesday that it would remove Young’s music from its platform following his demand that the company either remove his music or cancel Rogan and his…


Post-Vaccination Heart Inflammation Highest Among Young Men, Likely Underreported: CDC Study

Heart inflammation following COVID-19 vaccination was higher than expected in multiple age groups and was particularly pronounced in young men, according to a new data analysis from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers. Analyzing records submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) between December 2020 and August 2021, the researchers found…


COVID-19 Booster Shots Could Limit Europe’s Hospital Cases, Says ECDC

Booster shots may be able to cut hospitalization rates in Europe by at least half a million patients, the European Union’s (EU) public health agency said on Thursday. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) announced in a Jan. 27 statement it estimates that “the current uptake of a booster dose achieved by early…


Update on Pennsylvania Woman Who Came Into Contact With Escaped Monkeys

A woman who said she came into contact with escaped monkeys in Pennsylvania several days ago said that she’s not sick. “I want people to know I am not sick, I found out I was at a birthday party Friday night and people there had COVID-19,” Michelle Fallon told local news outlet the Daily Item….


Facts Matter (Jan. 26): CDC Sued for Withholding Vaccine Safety Data; British Medical Journal Demands Release of Trial Data

Recently, the British Medical Journal, which is the oldest medical journal in the world, began to demand the immediate release of all COVID vaccine data, including the raw data from the clinical trials—something which has, until this very day, not been made public. Meanwhile, as we common folk have to use our driver’s licenses and our…


CDC Adds 15 More Countries to ‘High Risk’ Travel List

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) named 15 more destinations as “Very High” COVID-19 risk on Monday, including several popular Caribbean island destinations. The agency said that Americans are recommended against traveling to Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Fiji, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Kuwait, Mongolia, Niger, Peru, Romania, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Martin, Tunisia,…