Category: COVID-19 Vaccines

CDC Simplifies COVID-19 Vaccine Guidance, Offers High-Risk Adults Extra Booster

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on April 19 that older people and people with weakened immune systems may obtain additional doses of the updated (bivalent) COVID-19 vaccines. The change comes as part of the CDC’s efforts to simplify its COVID-19 vaccine recommendations. The agency said the move also gives people at higher…


US Compensates People Injured by COVID-19 Vaccines for First Time

The United States has for the first time paid people who were injured by COVID-19 vaccines. Three people received compensation for their injuries through the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), run by an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, officials said in a new update. One person who suffered severe allergic shock received $2,019,…


Some Americans Shouldn’t Get Another COVID-19 Vaccine Shot, FDA Says

Some Americans cannot receive another COVID-19 vaccine dose, U.S. regulators said on April 18, as they made sweeping changes to the vaccine system. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the changes, including replacing the old Pfizer and Moderna vaccines with updated bivalent shots that had previously only been available as boosters. Regulators are…


New Study of 9,500 Women Find COVID-19 Jab Could Lead to Heavier Menstrual Bleeding

Women vaccinated for COVID-19 have a slightly higher risk of heavier menstrual bleeding, according to a new study. According to the study that examined 7,401 vaccinated and 2,154 unvaccinated women, researchers found an increase in the amount of bleeding for 40 out of 1,000 individuals after one dose of the jab. “Menstruation is a routine…


New Study of 9,500 Women Finds COVID-19 Jab Could Lead to Heavier Menstrual Bleeding

Women vaccinated for COVID-19 have a slightly higher risk of heavier menstrual bleeding, according to a new study. According to the study that examined 7,401 vaccinated and 2,154 unvaccinated women, researchers found an increase in the amount of bleeding for 40 out of 1,000 individuals after one dose of the jab. “Menstruation is a routine…


House Judiciary Probing Claims That Biden Admin Pressured FDA to Rush COVID-19 Booster Approvals

The House Judiciary Committee has launched an investigation into whether the Biden administration pressured the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to speed up its approvals of COVID-19 booster shots. In three April 10 letters to current and former FDA officials, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)—who chairs the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform,…


Another Biden Administration COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Struck Down by Court

President Joe Biden’s administration did not have the authority to impose a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on workers and volunteers in a federal childcare program, a U.S. judge has ruled. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) forced Head Start workers, and some volunteers, to get a COVID-19 vaccine starting in early 2022. Head Start provides…


Australia Discreetly Discontinues AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine

The Australian government has quietly removed approval from the Vaxzevria AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, which has been linked to rare but the serious side effect of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (TTS) involving blood clots combined with low levels of blood platelets. The federal health department updated its website to advise that the vaccine developed in the United…


Pregnancy Problems, Maternal Mortality at All-Time High

On Oct. 29, 2022, Whitney Reising Oliver died. She was 22 weeks pregnant with her first child, a little boy she and her husband had named Felix. Their unborn son also died. “Whit was so excited to be a mother and raise baby Felix in Chicago, IL—the city she loved, alive with her favorite art,…


Serious Harms of the COVID-19 Vaccine: A Systematic Review

Commentary Recently, my colleague and I completed a systematic review of the serious harms associated with COVID-19 vaccines. My co-author Peter Gøtzsche, is a Danish physician with four decades of research experience, publishing 97 papers in the “big five” (BMJ, Lancet, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, and New England Journal of Medicine) and 19 Cochrane reviews. My…