Tag: SARS-CoV-2

Approving Authority on COVID-19 Vaccines Says Underreporting of Adverse Events a ‘Common Problem’

The senior Health Canada official who had final authority for the approval of the COVID-19 vaccines says the surveillance system to monitor its adverse events falls far short on providing an accurate picture of the situation. “We do expect there to be a lot of underreporting,” said Dr. Celia Lourenco, acting associate assistant deputy minister…


Health Canada Exec Debates Ivermectin’s Effectiveness for COVID-19 Before Labour Board

During a recent Labour Board hearing, a senior Health Canada official defended her department’s decision to recommend against using ivermectin to treat COVID-19, while public service employees fighting the vaccination mandate said its use could have saved lives and billions of dollars. A key argument among those who opposed mandatory COVID vaccination was that alternative…


COVID Amplified Societal Issues That Need to Be Addressed, Says Group That Fought Against Restrictions

With COVID-19 now mostly being discussed in historical terms, a Quebec group that was at the forefront of challenging public health restrictions is redesigning itself to tackle broader issues in society. “After COVID, we noticed a number of other problems that COVID amplified,” says André Fortier, an osteopath and co-founder of Réinfo COVID Québec, now…


Study Infecting Patients With COVID-19 Finds ‘Very Few Emissions’ in Asymptomatic Cases

Emissions of COVID-19 among asymptomatic individuals are relatively low, according to the findings of a new experimental study that intentionally infected patients. The study was published in the weekly peer-reviewed The Lancet medical journal on June 9. The research was conducted at the quarantine unit at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust in London, UK, between March 6 and July 8,…


EXPLAINER: Winnipeg Lab Documents – Why Did It Take so Long and What Could They Reveal?

Will the public finally be provided some details behind the mysterious firing of Chinese-Canadian scientists who were working at the country’s top biosafety lab? The Liberal government announced on May 17 that an ad-hoc committee of selected MPs will be able to review documents pertaining to the matter, and a panel of arbiters composed of…


RNA-Based Vaccine Technology: The Trojan Horse Did Not Contain mRNA

A few years ago, the term “mRNA” was primarily confined to scientific circles and research papers. Then, the use of messenger RNA seemed promising: It would teach cells to create a protein that would initiate an immune response against a specific pathogen. Today, many more of us have heard of mRNA, as both the Pfizer-BioNTech…


The Surprising Good News From Swiss Authorities: No More COVID-19 Vaccinations

Commentary As a subscriber to Dr. John Campbell’s popular YouTube channel, I sometimes keep the video playing in the background. On April 11, I heard him say that the Swiss authorities have suspended all COVID-19 vaccinations. I was both shocked and surprised. Could this really be the case? As a former scientist who worked at…


Industry Minister Met With Pfizer to Expand Collaboration

Canada’s minister of industry met with executives from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in New York City on March 2 to discuss expanding collaboration, his office says. “They discussed how we can collaborat[e] in multiple areas to expand our growing biomanufacturing and life sciences sector,” said Laurie B. Bouchard, spokesperson to Minister François-Philippe Champagne. “New areas of…


LIVE 10:30 AM ET: Scientists Fabricated Paper to Write Off Lab Leak; Virus Origin Comes Back Into Focus

Dr. Anthony Fauci is being accused by congressional investigators of having promoted scientists to write off the possibility of a lab-leak origin of COVID-19, leading to the report, “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” which was then used by news outlets and social media companies to accuse others of spreading false information when the lab leak…


LIVE NOW: Scientists Fabricated Paper to Write Off Lab Leak; Virus Origin Comes Back Into Focus

Dr. Anthony Fauci is being accused by congressional investigators of having prompted scientists to write off the possibility of a lab-leak origin of COVID-19, leading to the report, “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” which was then used by news outlets and social media companies to accuse others of spreading false information when the lab leak…