Category: COVID-19 vaccine

NIH Awards $1.67M Grants to Probe Potential Links Between COVID-19 Vaccine, Menstrual Changes

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Aug. 30 announced it has awarded one-year supplemental grants totaling $1.67 million to multiple institutions to investigate the potential links between COVID-19 vaccination and menstrual changes. The announcement comes amid increasing reports among women who claim to have experienced changes to their menstrual cycle after receiving the vaccine. These changes range…


Poland to Donate 400,000 Doses of AstraZeneca Vaccine to Taiwan

WARSAW—Poland will donate 400,000 doses of the AstraZeneca Plc COVID-19 vaccine to Taiwan, the foreign ministry in Warsaw said on Saturday, to help boost vaccination rates in the country. While a relatively small domestic coronavirus outbreak is well under control in Taiwan, only around 5 percent of its 23.5 million population are fully vaccinated, though…


Edmonton Hospital Threatens Withdrawal of Life-Saving Transplant Surgery Unless Patient Gets Covid Shot

The University of Alberta Hospital, a research and teaching hospital in Edmonton, is threatening to remove a terminally ill patient from the donor list for a lung transplant if she refuses to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Annette Lewis, a 56-year-old woman who is terminally ill with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in both of her lungs, has been…


UK and Australia Agree to Share Vaccine Doses

Four million doses of the Pfizer jab will be sent from the UK to Australia as part of a COVID-19 vaccine deal. Australia will return the same “overall volume of doses” before the end of the year, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said. The agreement will share doses “at the optimum time…


Pentagon Has ‘Range of Tools’ to Compel Service Members to Get COVID-19 Vaccine: Spokesman

The Pentagon has a “range of tools” to compel military service members to get the COVID-19 vaccine after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fully approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine last month, officials said on Thursday. It comes as House lawmakers have backed legislation, sponsored by Army veteran Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn, which prohibits dishonorable discharges for troops…


Italy May Make COVID-19 Vaccine Shots Compulsory for All: PM

ROME—Italy may eventually make COVID-19 inoculations compulsory for everyone of eligible age, and plans to start administering booster vaccine shots later this month to vulnerable people, Prime Minister Mario Draghi said on Thursday. The government has already made it mandatory for medical workers to get vaccinated if they want to be paid, but Draghi said…


CDC Panel Backs Full Approval for Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for Over 16s

An advisory group of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unanimously endorsed the full approval of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for U.S. citizens who are over the age of 16. The Advisory on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a committee within the CDC, said on Monday that the vaccine by Pfizer–BioNTech against the CCP (Chinese…


Green Card Applicants Will Soon Need COVID-19 Vaccine to Be Eligible: CDC

Most green card applicants will need to get vaccinated against the CCP virus and have proof of the vaccination to be eligible for permanent residency in the United States, starting Oct. 1, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The new CDC guidance would apply to immigrants living in the United States…


Australian Truck Drivers Plan to ‘Block Every Highway’ in COVID-19 Protest

Australian truck drivers plan to block the highways in protest of COVID-19 vaccines and how the governments have handled their COVID-19 responses. According to social media posts, the protests are planned for Aug. 31 across the country, separate to the upcoming Transport Worker Union (TWU) backed protest over a pay dispute. “Block every hwy [highway]…


Frontline Health Care Workers Protest Mandatory Vaccination in California

With California’s deadline of mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for all health care workers approaching, boycotts are gaining momentum. On Aug. 21, California’s frontline health care workers held simultaneous protests in Riverside and Irvine against the government’s mandatory vaccination order at Kaiser Permanente-Riverside Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente Orange County-Irvine Medical Center. Many protesters told The Epoch…