Enlarge / CDC Director Rochelle Walensky testifies during a Senate committee hearing in July 2021. (credit: Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images) Just past midnight last night, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention overruled a committee of independent advisers, allowing for use of a Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine booster dose in people with increased risk of […]
Enlarge / The Food and Drug Administration headquarters in White Oak, Maryland. (credit: Getty | Congressional Quarterly) The US Food and Drug Administration late Wednesday authorized booster doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for people ages 65 and up. Also eligible for boosters will be those ages 18 to 64 who are at high risk […]
Enlarge / Vials of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. (credit: SOPA images ) Small doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 mRNA in children ages 5 to 11 appeared to produce strong antibody responses and comparable side effects to those seen in older age groups, according to the first top-line results from a Phase 2/3 clinical trial released by […]
Gavin Newsom vanquished his political opponents in California’s closely watched gubernatorial election on Tuesday. The politics of COVID and public health are a major reason why. Read More
Enlarge / The Food and Drug Administration headquarters in White Oak, Maryland. (credit: Getty | Congressional Quarterly) Two leading vaccine regulators who had previously announced their resignations from the Food and Drug Administration have now come out against the Biden administration’s plan to offer COVID-19 booster shots. In a viewpoint article published in The Lancet […]
Enlarge / The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters stands in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday, March 14, 2020. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) COVID-19 vaccines are largely holding up against the hyper-transmissible delta coronavirus variant, particularly when it comes to preventing severe disease and death, according to three studies published Friday by the Centers […]
Enlarge / Tablets of ivermectin. (credit: Getty | Nurphoto ) An Ohio judge has overturned an order by one of his colleagues that required a Cincinnati hospital to give the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin to a critically ill COVID-19 patient. The order to force the use of ivermectin—dubbed ” unethical ” and ” extraordinarily dangerous ” […]
There have been 154 COVID-related studies retracted to date, according to Retraction Watch, including now-discredited papers on 5G and the coronavirus and ones recommending unproven drugs like ivermectin to treat COVID-19. Read More
At this point, we have to brace ourselves anytime Joe Rogan makes headlines. He’s amassed an incredible following from his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, and for some reason the former Fear Factor host has become a kind of thought leader for his followers. Everyone can like who they like, of course, but it becomes […]
Enlarge / The US Food and Drug Administration in Silver Spring, Maryland. (credit: Getty | Xinhua News Agency ) Two top vaccine regulators have resigned from the Food and Drug Administration, revealing anger, frustration, plus turmoil at the federal agency as it faces intensifying pressure to authorize COVID-19 vaccine booster shots and doses for children […]