Category: Vaccines

China Considers Mixing COVID-19 Vaccines to Boost Efficacy: China CDC Leader

After the Chinese regime delivered hundreds of millions of doses of its COVID-19 vaccines abroad, its top health officer admitted on April 10 that the effectiveness of the China-made vaccines are low. The China-made vaccines “don’t have very high protection rates,” Chinese CDC director George Fu Gao said at the 2021 National Vaccine and Health Conference in Chengdu, according…


More Colleges Require Students to Have COVID-19 Vaccines for Fall Semester

Duke University said over the weekend that it will require COVID-19 vaccinations for students before they are allowed to return for the fall semester, joining a growing list of colleges to do so. “Duke research played an important role in the development of these vaccines, and we are committed to leading the way in vaccine…


Beijing Admits Chinese Vaccines’ Effectiveness Low

In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, the country’s top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing them to get a boost. Chinese vaccines “don’t have very high protection rates,” said the director of the Chinese regime’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Gao Fu,…


South African Variant Can ‘Break Through’ Pfizer Vaccine, Israeli Study Says

JERUSALEM—The coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa can “break through” Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine to some extent, a real-world data study in Israel found, though its prevalence in the country is low and the research has not been peer reviewed. The study, released on Saturday, compared almost 400 people who had tested positive for COVID-19, 14…


Only Vaccinated Persons Can Board Evacuation Vessels to Leave Island Volcano: St. Vincent PM

After a massive 6 mile-high eruption of ashes from the Soufriere volcano frightened the residents of Saint Vincent, Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves said that only those who have been vaccinated for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus could board the cruise ships evacuating people off the island. “The chief medical officer would be identifying the persons…


Taipei Resists Beijing’s Vaccine Diplomacy Aimed at Isolating the Island Nation

Taiwan said on April 7 that when nations helped by supplying COVID-19 vaccines to its diplomatic allies that was helping to prevent the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from invading the island nation; Taiwan said Beijing was trying to use the pandemic to force the island nation’s allies to break away in exchange for vaccines. Paraguay, Taiwan’s…


4th US Site Pauses COVID-19 Vaccinations After Adverse Reactions

A fourth vaccination site in the United States has paused giving shots after a batch of adverse reactions. Injections at the Cumming Fairgrounds in Forsyth County have been halted after eight people experienced adverse reactions post-vaccination, the Georgia Department of Health said Friday. One person was evaluated at the hospital and released while the others were…


Fauci: No Concern About Number of People Testing Positive After COVID-19 Vaccination

The number of so-called breakthrough COVID-19 cases is not a cause for concern, a top U.S. medical official said Friday. “I think the important thing is to look at what the denominator of vaccinated people is, because it is very likely—and what we’re hearing at least indirectly, and we’re certainly going to be confirming that—that…


Biden to Rush Vaccinators and Testing to Michigan as Whitmer Pleads for More Vaccines

The White House said Friday that Washington is surging federal resources to support vaccinations, testing, and therapeutics—though not vaccines themselves—to Michigan in a bid to control the state’s worst-in-the-nation COVID-19 transmission rate, with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer pleading for a surge in doses. Senior administration officials told The Associated Press that President Joe Biden told…


European Regulator Probing Possible Link Between Blood Clots and J&J COVID-19 Vaccine

A small number of people who received Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine have developed blood clots, the European Medicines Agency said Friday. The agency’s committee in charge of assessing medicines has launched a review of the vaccine’s safety that will delve into the reports of post-vaccination blood clots. “Four serious cases of unusual blood clots with…