Category: PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATION

Fauci: Fully Vaccinated Americans May Not ‘Necessarily’ Need COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Shots

Fully vaccinated Americans may not need to get a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot, Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Friday in an interview on CBS’ “This Morning.” Fauci, who is head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said that there was “some misunderstanding” about whether fully vaccinated people would need a…


Oregon First State to Require Vaccination Proof for Maskless Entry Into Businesses, Workplaces, and Churches

The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) is requiring that people in workplaces, businesses, and religious sites show proof of vaccination in order to be allowed maskless entry to the facilities. The state’s health authorities updated their masking guidance on May 19, following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) rollback of strict mask mandates. “Businesses, employers and…


Children Admitted to the Hospital With COVID-19 May Be Overcounted: Study

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine examined COVID-19 cases from Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford for nine months between May 10, 2020, as the hospital began to test all of its inpatients for COVID-19, and Feb. 10, 2021.


PolitiFact Quietly Retracts Fact Check Labeling COVID-19 Lab Origin Theory as ‘Debunked Conspiracy’

PolitiFact has quietly retracted a Sept. 2020 fact check that labeled a Hong Kong virologist’s claim that COVID-19 originated in a lab as inaccurate and a “debunked conspiracy theory.” “The claim is inaccurate and ridiculous,” now-archived fact check previously said. “We rate it Pants on Fire!” In an updated editor’s note published Monday, PolitiFact explained…


CDC Recommends US Schools Continue to Use Masks

Schools in the United States should continue to use masks for the 2020–2021 academic year as all students will not be fully vaccinated, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Saturday. The CDC in its latest guidance said all kindergarten through grade 12 schools “should implement and layer prevention strategies and…


Fatal Drug Overdoses Surged in 2020

Fatal drug overdoses spiked to record highs last year in states across the United States, with pandemic-driven isolation and loss of routine the likely factor behind the surge in deaths. State-level fatal drug overdose data covering the 12-month period ending in September 2020, the closest proxy available for last year as a whole, shows drug…


Second Plaintiff Joins Federal Lawsuit Challenging COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

The first federal lawsuit challenging employer-mandated COVID-19 vaccines has added a second plaintiff who claims that he was let go after refusing the county’s vaccine mandate. Anthony Zoccoli, a former employee of the Doña Ana County Detention Center in New Mexico, claimed he was fired from his job because he refused to receive the “experimental…


Influenza Vaccination Linked to Higher COVID Death Rates

Vaccines can in some cases trigger more serious illness when exposed to an unrelated virus, via a process known as virus interference. A question that has lingered since the 2009 mass vaccination campaign against pandemic H1N1 swine flu is whether seasonal influenza vaccination might make pandemic infections worse or more prevalent. That concern has come…


More Adverse Reactions Reported After COVID-19 Vaccination in People With Prior Infection: Study

Healthcare workers who have recovered from COVID-19, except those with Long-COVID, reported adverse reactions following their first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine more often than those who had not been infected, according to a recent study. Researchers in the United Kingdom surveyed more than 900 healthcare workers in three hospitals in a longitudinal observational study,…


Steve Deace: COVID-19 Narratives, Politicization of Science, and the Republic’s Willing Subjugation

How robust is the data behind COVID-19 policies such as mask-wearing? Are we really getting the full picture from the experts? And how did the science surrounding COVID-19 become so politicized? In an interview with Steve Deace, co-author of “Faucian Bargain,” he makes the case that the coronavirus pandemic put unprecedented power in the hands…