The risk of a form of heart inflammation is higher for people under 40 after receiving Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine versus contracting COVID-19, according to a new study. Researchers found 15 excess cases per 1 million people who received a second dose of the vaccine compared to 10 extra cases of myocarditis following a positive COVID-19…
Heart Inflammation Risk Higher From Moderna Vaccine Than COVID-19 for Those Under 40: Study
Fauci Predicts Omicron Will Become Dominant Variant in US
The Omicron virus variant will become the dominant variant in the United States, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday. “It is going to be dominant in the United States, given its doubling time,” Fauci told CNN. In some countries, the percent of COVID-19 cases that Omicron causes is doubling every two days, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director…
Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Less Protective Against Hospitalization After Omicron Emerged: Study
The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has been less effective in protecting against hospitalization following the emergency of the Omicron virus variant, according to a new study of real-world data from South Africa. The protection from the vaccine’s primary two-dose regimen has dropped to about 70 percent in recent weeks, according to Discovery Health, the largest private…
Human Fat Cells Host CCP Virus, ‘Dramatic Inflammatory Response’: Preprint Study
Human fat cells can be directly infected with the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, providing an additional site for the virus to replicate, according to a group of Stanford researchers who set out to determine the COVID-19 risk posed directly by obesity. According to the researchers mainly based at Stanford’s School of Medicine, studies have…
No Evidence Omicron Variant Causes More Severe Illness: South Africa
No evidence has come to light yet that indicates the Omicron virus variant causes more severe illness when compared to other strains, South African officials said Friday. South Africa scientists were the first to identify Omicron, a variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19. Science on Omicron’s severity “is not yet clear,” South African…
Omicron Virus Variant Evades Immunity From Pfizer Vaccine: Study
The Omicron variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus can best the antibodies from Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, according to a newly released small study led by South African researchers. Samples of plasma drawn from 12 people who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were tested as part of a rapid response to the variant, which recently emerged in…
Glaxo Says Its COVID-19 Antibody Treatment Effective Against Omicron
British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said early-stage lab data shows its COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment, jointly developed with U.S. partner Vir Biotechnology, is effective against all mutations of the new Omicron strain. Glaxo said in a Dec. 7 statement that new preclinical findings generated from in vitro testing of the drug, called sotrovimab, show that the treatment…
WHO Advises Against Convalescent Plasma as COVID-19 Treatment
The World Health Organization (WHO) late Monday advised against using convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19. “For non-severe COVID-19 patients, WHO recommends against its use, while it should only be used within clinical trials for severe and critical COVID-19 patients,” the WHO announced. Convalescent plasma therapy involves using the blood plasma of patients who recovered from COVID-19…
Omicron Variant May Cause Less Severe Disease: Report
The Omicron virus variant may lead to less severe cases of COVID-19 than earlier strains, according to data from South Africa, where the variant was first identified last month. Most of the hospitalized patients admitted with COVID-19 did not need oxygen, a contrast to earlier in the pandemic, the South African Medical Research Council said in…
Getting Answers From China on Its ‘Disappeared Dissidents:’ Is China in Economic Crisis?
Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan has been jailed since May 2020 after filming and reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic from Wuhan. Chinese human-rights lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, who has long defended activists and the civil rights of religious minorities, has been “disappeared” since 2017. What point of leverage could the world use to compel the Chinese Communist…
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