Category: PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATION

California Calls for Pause in Use of Huge Batch of Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines

California officials late Sunday directed COVID-19 vaccine providers to not administer any doses from a batch of over 330,000 that was circulated across the state. The reason was a “higher-than-usual number of possible allergic reactions,” California State Epidemiologist Dr. Erica Pan said in a statement. The doses were produced by Moderna. Moderna, the Centers for Disease…


US Approval of AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson Vaccines Likely ‘Weeks Away’: Fauci

A COVID-19 vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson, and another by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, are likely “weeks away” from being presented to U.S. regulators for approval, Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Sunday. “We’re weeks away, not months away, for sure,” said Fauci, speaking on NBC’s “Meet…


55 People Died in US After Receiving COVID-19 Vaccines: Reporting System

Fifty-five people in the United States have died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, according to reports submitted to a federal system. Deaths have occurred among people receiving both the Moderna and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, according to the reports. The reporting system, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), is a federal database. The system is passive,…


More Highly Transmissible Variant of CCP Virus Detected in 10 States: CDC

At least 10 state health departments in the United States have detected the highly contagious B.1.1.7 variant of COVD-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, according to a new report. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in an update on Jan. 15, said that a “more highly transmissible variant…


COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects May Have Led to 13 Deaths: Norway

Norway has changed its COVID-19 vaccination guide to state that “very frail” people should no longer receive the jab, citing 13 post-vaccine deaths in the country from side effects that appear to be linked to Pfizer and partner BioNTech’s mRNA vaccine. “If you are very frail, you should probably not be vaccinated,” Steinar Madsen at the…


Companies Join Push for COVID-19 ‘Vaccination Credential’

A slew of companies are pushing for a credential that would mark people who have received a COVID-19 vaccine. Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce are among the businesses that are part of a coalition that announced Thursday they’re working on the new project. “The goal of the Vaccination Credential Initiative is to empower individuals with digital…


Scientists Say Official Study Shows Natural Immunity to CCP Virus Similar to Vaccine Immunity

The level of natural immunity people acquire from having caught the CCP virus in the past is high and likely to be roughly the same as the protection they will get from vaccination against the disease, scientists have said a new official study shows. Public Health England (PHE) said in a media release on Thursday…


New CCP Virus Variants Discovered: Ohio Researchers

A press release by the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center says that their scientists have detected a new variant of SARS-Cov-2, the source of CCP virus infection. The scientists say that this variant “carries a mutation identical to the U.K. strain,” but that it plausibly came into existence from a genus already in existence…


Brazil Finds Chinese Vaccine to Be 50.4% Effective, Far Lower Than Initial Claims

A leading Chinese vaccine has been found to be 50.4 percent effective, according to the results of a late-stage trial in Brazil, serving a blow to the Chinese regime as it seeks to leverage the vaccine to bolster its global image. The results from Brazil’s state-funded Butantan Institute on Tuesday were just enough to pass…


Chinese Vaccine Found to Be 50.4 Percent Effective in Brazil Trial

A leading Chinese COVID-19 vaccine candidate has been found to be 50.4 percent effective, according to the results of a late-stage trial in Brazil, a potential setback to the Chinese regime as it seeks to leverage the vaccine to boost its global image. The results from Brazil’s state-funded Butantan Institute on Jan. 12 were just…