Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and 19 other senators are threatening not to vote for new defense spending unless there’s also a vote to end the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. “We’re taking action today by saying we will not vote to get on the NDAA—the defense authorization bill—unless we have a vote on ending this military […]
The Air Force improperly adjudicated requests for exemptions from its COVID-19 vaccine mandate and has illegally only handed out exemptions to members who are on their way out, an appeals court said on Nov. 29 as it rejected the military branch’s bid to lift an injunction against punishing thousands of unvaccinated members. Eighteen members brought […]
Twitter has stopped enforcing its COVID-19 “misleading information” policy that had resulted in nearly 100,000 pieces of content being cut from the platform and led to more than 11,000 account suspensions. The social media giant, which was taken over by industrialist Elon Musk at the end of October, said in a report that, effective Nov. 23, […]
The White House on Tuesday announced “new enforcement guidance” on COVID-19 vaccine mandates for nursing home residents and staff. It announced “new enforcement guidance to ensure nursing homes are offering updated COVID-19 vaccines and timely treatment to their residents and staff,” according to a White House fact sheet released Tuesday morning. It said that the Centers […]
Five months after filing a lawsuit against the Goleta Water District in Santa Barbara, attorneys have secured a six-figure award in favor of five plaintiffs resulting from the utility’s restrictive COVID-19 employee vaccine mandate. “This was fairly early on that they offered this judgment that the plaintiffs were the prevailing parties, which means they did […]
Leaders of the Group of 20 (G-20) have issued a joint declaration promoting a global standard on proof of vaccination for international travel and calling for the establishment of “global digital health networks” that build on existing digital COVID-19 vaccine passport schemes. The joint statement followed the conclusion of the G-20 summit held in Bali, […]
Moderna’s updated COVID-19 vaccine booster performs worse against a virus variant that is becoming increasingly prevalent in the United States, the company announced on Nov. 14. A clinical trial testing the updated booster, which U.S. regulators authorized in August without any clinical data, showed that it provides a higher level of neutralizing antibody titers than […]
Researchers in Switzerland found that one in every 35 people who get the third COVID shot suffer from heart damage. NTD spoke with cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough who says those damages can have long-lasting, and sometimes even deadly effects.
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has extended its COVID-19 vaccine proof requirement for non-U.S., nonimmigrant citizens flying to enter the United States, making the United States the only western country and among the few remaining countries in the world still to require such proof for entry. The latest TSA security directive (pdf) states that effective to at least […]
American company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech announced on Nov. 3 that they are trying to combine the COVID and flu mRNA vaccines in one single-dose shot. Dr. David Wiseman, former leading scientist at Johnson & Johnson and former COVID-19 advisor to U-S senator Ron Johnson, tells NTD that combining the two shots helps […]
A medical board has threatened a doctor with being stripped of his certifications in internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases. This comes after he voiced his concerns surrounding COVID-19 vaccines. NTD spoke to Dr. Peter McCullough, author of “The Courage to Face COVID-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death While Battling the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex.” McCullough said doctors face […]
Italian health care workers who have been suspended for rejecting COVID-19 vaccines will soon be able to return to work, the European country’s top health official said Friday. Orazio Schillaci, who was appointed last week by Italy’s newly formed ruling coalition to lead the Ministry of Health, said his administration is working on a measure […]
New York City is keeping its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for public workers in place after a judge ruled it was unconstitutional. The city is also appealing the ruling, which ordered the reinstatement of workers who sued the city after they were terminated. “The city strongly disagrees with this ruling as the mandate is firmly grounded […]
The entity that determines the vaccination schedule for children in Texas was quick to adjust its website on Oct. 20, hours after advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a recommendation to add the COVID-19 vaccine to the children’s immunization schedule. After a state representative expressed his concern, the Texas Department […]
A New York Supreme Court judge on Monday struck down New York City’s vaccine mandate for all city workers, finding the rule to be unconstitutional, arbitrary, and capricious. Attorney Chad LaVeglia, who announced the verdict outside the Richmond County courthouse, said the mandate was now “null and void.” “So, we just defeated the vaccine mandate […]
People of all ages are at higher risk of death from heart inflammation after COVID-19 vaccination compared with the typical occurrence of myocarditis death, according to a new study. Researchers in Japan analyzed deaths caused by myocarditis, a form of heart inflammation, where the myocarditis set in within 28 days of vaccination. Thirty-eight deaths fit […]
Whistleblower service members are speaking out on behalf of thousands of service members whose careers have been jeopardized for objecting to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s 2021 military COVID-19 vaccine mandate. They’ve expressed concern over the vaccine mandate’s legality, as well as its health effects. Alongside three members of the Armed Forces, attorney and former […]
Any state that requires COVID-19 vaccination to attend school will face a lawsuit, lawyers said this week. The Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), run by TV host Del Bigtree, has pledged to finance up to 50 lawsuits, Aaron Siri, who frequently represents the group, said. “ICAN has told us it will financially support a challenge […]
A federal court on Friday ordered Dr. Anthony Fauci and other top officials to testify under oath at depositions in a case that’s uncovered evidence of alleged federal government collusion with big tech companies to censor users. The attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri and other plaintiffs allege that Fauci, director of NIAID and President […]
CDC advisers will be voting on whether to add COVID-19 vaccines to the child immunization schedule. NTD spoke to leading expert on COVID-19 treatment Dr. Peter McCullough. He said the disease is usually mild in children and easily treated. McCullough also says child vaccines are not medically necessary, nor are they proven to be safe.
Advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Oct. 20 recommended adding COVID-19 vaccines to the child and adolescent immunization schedules, despite the vaccines still being under emergency authorization for some children. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) cast the vote during a meeting on updating the schedules for youth and […]
Switzerland will destroy 9 million doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine that have reached their expiry date, with another 5.1 million vaccine jabs set to meet the same fate by February, the government said on Wednesday. “With this deliberately chosen strategy, it was accepted that too much vaccine would be procured and that some of the […]
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting: Updates to Childhood Immunization Schedule, COVID-19, Influenza, Pneumococcal Vaccines and More in Atlanta, Georgia, on Oct. 20. NTD will livestream the meeting at 8:30 a.m. ET. Access the livestream on this page, and also at EpochTV.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Oct. 19 confirmed plans to add COVID-19 vaccines to the child immunization schedule, which could lead to the vaccines being mandated for school children in some states. “As we’ll be discussing today and tomorrow, incorporation of the COVID-19 vaccines in the immunization schedule and the […]
The Advisory Committee On Immunization Practices (ACIP) Meeting: Updates to Childhood Immunization Schedule, COVID-19, Influenza, Pneumococcal Vaccines and More in Atlanta, Georgia, on Oct. 19. NTD will livestream the meeting at 1:15 p.m. ET. Access the livestream on this page, and also at EpochTV.
Advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are scheduled to vote on adding COVID-19 vaccines to a program for children. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), an advisory panel to the centers (CDC), will vote on Oct. 19 on adding COVID-19 vaccines to the Vaccines For Children program, according to a draft agenda […]
Few people have received updated COVID-19 vaccine boosters since it was first made available in August, according to recent data published by the federal government. About 14.8 million have received bivalent boosters made by Pfizer and Moderna, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data that was published Thursday shows. The Food and Drug Administration provided emergency use […]
The database of the European Medicines Agency, used to monitor suspected side effects, shows that several hundred thousand people who got the COVID jab reported a serious reaction. NTD spoke to a lawyer who said EU health authorities should conduct a public hearing so that these patients can testify about what happened to them.
The federal government on Thursday extended its COVID-19 emergency for another 90 days despite President Joe Biden declaring the pandemic “over” weeks earlier. U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra confirmed the extension of the emergency in announcement posted on its website. No other details were provided. He said that “a public health […]
Several members of the EU Parliament have raised questions over the EU Commission’s purchase of 4.5 billion doses of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine and the way in which these contracts were signed by the Commission president, Ursula Von der Leyen. They accuse her of corruption for concealing the discussions she had with the pharmaceutical company.
In light of the recent admission by Pfizer that its COVID-19 vaccine was not tested on preventing transmission before release, NTD spoke to Dr. Paul Alexander, an epidemiologist and former senior adviser to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Alexander said that it is not common practice for pharmaceutical companies not to test […]
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Oct. 12 enabled younger children to receive updated COVID-19 boosters. The CDC’s move came hours after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency authorization to Moderna and Pfizer for their updated COVID-19 boosters for children between the ages of 5 and 11. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, […]
There isn’t enough data to recommend COVID-19 booster jabs for Omicron subvariants over the original virus, the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) panel of vaccine experts said on Tuesday. Four variant-containing mRNA vaccines that either include bivalent Omicron subvariants BA.1 or BA.4–5 in combination with the “ancestral virus” have been authorized for use as booster doses. The Strategic […]
A Pfizer executive said Monday that neither she nor other Pfizer officials knew whether its COVID-19 vaccine would stop transmission before entering the market last year. Member of the European Parliament, Rob Roos, asked during a session: “Was the Pfizer COVID vaccine tested on stopping the transmission of the virus before it entered the market? Did […]
The Supreme Court on Oct. 11 turned down a request from a detective to block New York City’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for municipal workers. Anthony Marciano, a New York Police Department detective, sued the city over the mandate, which applies to all city employees. A New York Supreme Court judge blocked the mandate in late […]
In France, more than 10,000 women report experiencing menstrual changes after receiving a COVID jab. The impact can be dramatic for some. NTD spoke to lawyers and doctors who gathered in Paris recently to discuss the issue.
The National Guard lost about 7,500 members over the past year, and membership could dwindle even more due to potential future discharges of up to 14,000 soldiers amid the U.S. military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, according to reports. The total annual loss of some 7,500 members is due to higher numbers of soldiers retiring or leaving […]
Florida’s Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, announced new guidance on mRNA vaccines on Friday, specifically recommending against mRNA COVID-19 vaccines for males aged 18 to 39. The new guidance came after the Florida Department of Health carried out an analysis to evaluate vaccine safety, the department said in a bulletin on Friday. The statewide analysis […]
French authorities have launched a new COVID vaccine booster campaign. But this might be easier said than done, as the number of uptakes has significantly decreased after people received their second dose. NTD spoke with a doctor who says people’s trust in the vaccine is going down.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday made another sweeping change to one of its pandemic-era responses. The federal health agency dropped its country-by-country COVID-19 travel health notices that it began issuing when COVID-19 started spreading in the United States in early 2020. Fewer countries are testing for the virus or […]
Hundreds of thousands of Americans sought medical care after getting a COVID-19 vaccine, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data released on Oct. 3. Some 782,900 people reported seeking medical attention, emergency room care, and/or hospitalization following COVID-19 vaccination. Another 2.5 million people reported needing to miss school, work, or other normal […]
Newly obtained emails show the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) made a false statement on COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring in 2021, months before agency officials gave false statements on the matter to The Epoch Times. The emails also show top officials in the agency discussing performing safety monitoring on a key database for […]
The Swedish Public Health Authority has stopped recommending healthy children between the ages of 12 and 17 receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The general recommendation that healthy children aged 12 to 17 receive the COVID-19 vaccine ended after Oct. 31, according to the authority in a revision posted this weekend. It cited the “very low risk of […]
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) researchers are preparing to publish a study on a set of data that identified four potential issues in elderly persons after COVID-19 vaccination. The FDA announced in July 2021 that near real-time surveillance detected four potential adverse events of interest following receipt of Pfizer’s vaccine. The agency has given zero […]
Rep. Gregory Steube (R-Fla.) and other U.S. lawmakers are asserting that the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) refusal to provide records to The Epoch Times is illegal. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) states that, with exceptions, agencies that receive satisfactory records requests “shall make the records promptly available” to the requester. But the FDA […]
French firefighters this summer battled massive wildfires that burned record surface areas. Firefighters from other countries were called in to support local ones. But maybe some disasters could have been avoided if the French government had asked for help from firefighters who got dismissed over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. NTD spoke to a firefighter who’s still not allowed to […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is refusing to release the results of autopsies conducted on people who died after getting COVID-19 vaccines. The FDA says it is barred from releasing medical files, but a drug safety advocate says that it could release the autopsies with personal information redacted. The refusal was issued to […]
A study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association on Monday tested the milk of 11 lactating women and found that five of them contained elements of either the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. The journal issued a warning saying caution is warranted regarding breastfeeding infants younger than six months in the first […]
A doctor who promoted COVID-19 vaccines is now calling for health authorities around the world to pause the administration of two of the most-widely utilized COVID-19 vaccines, saying that the benefits from the vaccines may not outweigh the risks. “There is more than enough evidence—I would say the evidence is overwhelming—to pause the rollout of […]
Pfizer and Moderna have formally asked U.S. regulators to grant emergency authorization for new COVID-19 vaccine boosters for children as young as five. Pfizer and its partner BioNTech submitted a request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Sept. 26, several days after Moderna submitted a request to the FDA. The FDA authorized […]
Ottawa is ending its pandemic border measures, including the requirement for travellers to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination upon entering Canada and mandatory masking on planes and trains, while making the use of the ArriveCan mobile app optional. “Based on the data accumulated over the last few weeks, we are announcing that the government of […]
A federal judge has granted class action status for U.S. Marines in their fight against Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The ruling is another blow to the Biden administration and consistent with other court rulings that have found military branches are violating federal law. Judge Steven Merryday of the U.S. District Court […]
A majority of young Americans who suffered heart inflammation after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine had abnormal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) results, according to a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). CDC researchers have been following youth who experienced myocarditis, a form of heart inflammation, after receipt of the Pfizer […]
New York City police officers scored a big win in their fight against the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate that cost some their jobs, with a Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruling that the mandate—as it applies to members of the Police Benevolent Association (PBA)—is “invalid” and fired cops must be given back their jobs. Judge Lyle Frank […]
Israeli researchers found some side effects that occurred after COVID-19 vaccination were caused by Pfizer’s vaccine, according to a leaked video. The Israeli Ministry of Health (MoH) commissioned researchers to analyze adverse event reports submitted by Israelis and the researchers presented findings from the new surveillance system in an internal June 2022 meeting, video of […]
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) expects COVID-19 vaccine boosters targeting circulating variants of the virus to be available for children aged 5-11 years by mid-October. The CDC said in a document released on Tuesday that it expects to make a recommendation in early- to mid-October on the use of the new […]
The mask and COVID-19 vaccine mandate imposed on the federal Head Start program was struck down on Sept. 21 by a U.S. judge who said the mandate is clearly outside the power of the agency that promulgated and enforced it. “The Court finds the Agency Defendants have exceeded their authority by implementing the Head Start […]
New York City will end COVID-19 vaccine mandates for student athletes and private sector businesses, but officials are keeping in place a third vaccination requirement, the city’s mayor said on Sept. 20. Students who play sports will no longer have to get vaccinated, Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, told reporters at City Hall in the […]
Members of the Air Force have been grounded for refusing to take a COVID-19 shot even after a court order ruling against such actions said a former space force commander on Sept. 15, adding that it is “not the time to be tampering with our readiness.” Roughly two months back, a federal court in Ohio […]
Nearly 50 Republican lawmakers, led by Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), have called on the Department of Defense (DOD) to withdraw its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for military members, citing concerns over the mandate’s impact on the readiness of the U.S. Armed Forces. In a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin dated Sept. 15 (pdf), lawmakers, including Reps. Chip Roy […]
A team of nine experts from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and other top universities say COVID-19 booster shots for university students might be worse than COVID itself. They published a study that found that boosters for young people may cause up to 98 serious adverse events for each COVID-19-related hospitalization they theoretically prevent.
President Joe Biden’s administration has opted not to enforce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors, following a recent court decision that enabled the government to enforce the rule in some parts of the country. The White House Safer Federal Workforce quietly updated its website on Aug. 31 to say that the government “will take […]
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has acknowledged publicly for the first time that the agency gave false information about its COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the agency’s director, said in a letter made public on Sept. 12 that the CDC did not analyze certain types of adverse […]
Air Force members seeking religious exemptions from the U.S. military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate have provided “significant proof” that the military branch has discriminated against them, a federal appeals court ruled on Sept. 12. A U.S. district court in July blocked the mandate for thousands of Air Force members who remain unvaccinated and have had their […]
Reports submitted to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s vaccine surveillance system suggest that cases of post-COVID-19 vaccine-linked heart inflammation among young males have risen. Recent figures published in the CDC’s Vaccine Safety Datalink surveillance system show that within a week of getting the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, there were 14 cases of myocarditis or pericarditis among 102,091 […]
One man created a Facebook group in 2021 for people to share personal stories of COVID-19 vaccine injuries and deaths. NTD spoke with him about the group’s popularity and what he plans to do next.
U.S. drug regulators are refusing to provide key analyses of a COVID-19 vaccine safety database, claiming that the factual findings cannot be separated by internal discussions protected by law. The Epoch Times asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in July for all analyses performed by the agency for the COVID-19 vaccines using a method […]
A top U.S. health official on Sept. 6 said that COVID-19 vaccines could turn into a yearly shot, similar to the annual recommended influenza vaccine. “It is becoming increasingly clear that looking forward with the COVID-19 pandemic, in the absence of a dramatically different variant, we likely are moving towards a path with a vaccination […]
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) passed misinformation to Facebook as the partners worked to combat misinformation, according to newly released emails, in the most recent example of CDC officials making false or misleading claims. In a June 3 message, a Facebook official said the CDC had helped the company “debunk claims […]
Over 1,000 reports of adverse events have been lodged with U.S. authorities following COVID-19 vaccination in children aged 5 and younger. As of Aug. 21, 998 non-serious reports have been entered into the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) for children 4 or younger who received a Pfizer vaccine and children 5 or younger who received […]
The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Sept. 1 recommended updated COVID-19 boosters for all Americans aged 12 years and older. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director, adopted advice from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises the CDC on vaccine guidance. “The updated COVID-19 boosters are formulated to better […]
A new book titled “Neither Safe Nor Effective: The Evidence Against the COVID Vaccines” challenges whether COVID vaccines are even effective, and argues that there is enough data available that would prove they aren’t. NTD spoke to the author to discuss the book.
More than 50 officials in President Joe Biden’s administration across a dozen agencies have been involved with efforts to pressure Big Tech companies to crack down on alleged misinformation, according to documents released on Aug. 31. Senior officials in the U.S. government, including White House lawyer Dana Remus, deputy assistant to the president Rob Flaherty, […]
U.S. drug regulators on Aug. 31 authorized COVID-19 vaccine booster shots despite no clinical trial data being available for the updated formulations. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency use authorization to Moderna and Pfizer for their updated boosters. The original vaccines were based on components of the Wuhan strain of the virus […]
California’s legislature has passed a bill that takes aim at doctors who promote false and misleading information related to COVID-19, including information about COVID-19 vaccines. The California Senate voted 32–8 to approve the bill on Aug. 29, about three months after the California Assembly passed it 53–20. All Democrat state senators voted yes, along with […]
The White House on Monday disputed a reporter’s query comparing unvaccinated illegal immigrants and an unvaccinated tennis player, after Novak Djokovic recently announced he is not competing in the U.S. Open, amid travel restrictions that bar foreigners who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 from entering the United States. “How come migrants are allowed to come into […]
A U.S. court has lifted part of the ban on the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors, finding a lower court went too far in blocking the vaccination requirements across the nation—but also predicting that the challenge to the mandate will probably succeed. U.S. District Judge R. Stan Baker, a Trump appointee, in December […]
Officials in Washington, D.C., are delaying enforcement of the school COVID-19 vaccine mandate after a federal judge struck down vaccination requirements for city workers. Students aged 12 and older who do not receive a COVID-19 vaccine will not be barred from school until Jan. 3, 2023, the D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) […]
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser has confirmed that her city is not planning to allow remote learning for unvaccinated students, who will be blocked out of their classrooms when the new school year starts next week. Under the city’s latest school attendance policy, children aged 12 years and older must show proof of COVID-19 vaccination within […]
Moderna sued Pfizer and BioNTech on Aug. 26, alleging the companies infringed on its patents for technology utilized by COVID-19 vaccines. Both the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines are built on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology. The problem is that they both use key features that Moderna scientists developed, including the same coronavirus protein encoding, according to […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday signed off on the use of Novavax Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents aged 12 through 17. The recommendation follows the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) authorization for the vaccine for the age group last week. The protein-based vaccine received emergency use authorization in July for […]
Moderna announced on Aug. 23 that it has requested emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine targeted for the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5. The company’s latest so-called bivalent vaccine dose, mRNA-1273.222, targets the BA.4/BA.5 subvariants of the Omicron strain as well as the original strain of […]
Pfizer and partner BioNTech announced they have submitted a request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to authorize a COVID-19 vaccine booster that has been updated to target the newest Omicron subvariants. The request comes after the FDA in June advised COVID-19 vaccine makers to amend their shots to target the two Omicron subvariants BA.4 […]
In an Aug. 15 report to Congress, a group of military members detailed several alleged violations of federal law by the Defense Department. The members were denied a religious exemption from the emergency use COVID-19 vaccine and claimed the department’s action violated their right to refuse.
A federal judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit from a group of health care workers against Maine’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Jon Levy, the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, said that the Pine Tree State’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate is “rationally based.” “Reducing the number of unvaccinated health care workers at […]
A small number of Comirnaty and Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine doses have become available in the United States in recent weeks, according to court filings and U.S. health departments. Vials of vaccines labeled Comirnaty started being available to members of the U.S. military in May and tens of thousands of the vials have since been ordered, […]
The government plans to stop paying for COVID treatment. This will push the cost to patients and insurers. NTD spoke with Wayne Winegarden, senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute, who says COVID-19 will be with us for a long time, so COVID treatment should be incorporated into the normal health care system.
Judicial Watch, an organization that promotes government transparency and accountability, obtained reports from Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine trial on animals. During the study, female rats were given human doses or 100 micrograms of the mRNA vaccine—two before and two during pregnancy. The test results show that about 4 percent of their offspring had statistically significant skeletal […]
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky recently announced that the CDC’s handling of the pandemic was less than satisfactory. She said that for 75 years, the CDC and public health have been preparing for COVID-19 and in our big moment, our performance did not reliably meet expectations. Family physician Dr. Kat Lindley assesses the CDC’s handling of the […]
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stealthily edited a webpage it maintains that lists details about messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccines. The page, titled “Understanding mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines,” says it was last updated on July 15. But archived versions of the page show that key portions were removed on July 22 or July […]
Moderna is bringing out a new, two-strain COVID-19 booster that vaccinates against the original Wuhan strain of the virus and the Omicron variant. Rollout of the vaccine is due to start in Autumn for the over-50s and the clinically vulnerable.
Disney Cruise Line said it is dropping its COVID-19 vaccine requirement for children aged 5 to 11 for trips departing Canada and the United States. The company previously required all passengers aged 5 and older to be fully vaccinated before departing. The firm said in an Aug. 15 update on its website that starting Sept. […]
