Showing posts with label COVID-19. Show all posts
Showing posts with label COVID-19. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
C.D.C. Recommends New Covid Vaccines for All Americans - The New York Times
Everyone aged 6 months and older should get at least one dose, the agency said...
Who should get the new covid vaccine booster and when - The Washington Post
Updated coronavirus vaccines are on the way — the latest weapon for fending off a wily foe that has relentlessly evolved and is causing an uptick in covid-19 cases and hospitalizations.
The shots, designed to provide improved protection against omicron subvariants now circulating, are manufactured by Moderna and by Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech. They were cleared Monday by the Food and Drug Administration and are expected to be reviewed Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its advisers.
That means the injections will be available to consumers shortly. Here is what you need to know:…
Sunday, September 10, 2023
New Covid vaccines are coming out. Should you get one?
Experts agree: Individuals who want to get boosted now should wait for the upcoming shot (unless they have pressing medical needs) as it will be more targeted toward variants that are circulating currently.
The new booster and the recommendations for who should get it should come by mid-September. After that, planning when to get it really depends on your current needs and the state of the ongoing wave, experts say...
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Wednesday, August 9, 2023
COVID hospitalizations jump again: Maps show where it’s worst | The Hill
In about two dozen states, the surge in hospitalizations is far more than 12%. Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming all saw more than a 20% increase in new COVID hospitalizations...
Thursday, July 27, 2023
DeSantis suggests he could pick RFK Jr. to lead the FDA or CDC - POLITICO
Kennedy, who remains a long shot for the Democratic presidential nomination, has aired contentious views over vaccines, having questioned their effectiveness on several occasions. In the past few weeks, hecame under sharp fire from liberals for suggesting that Covid was engineered to be less lethal to Asian and Jewish people. He has also been a critic of Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, commenting once that he would prosecute him if "crimes were committed."…
Sunday, July 23, 2023
The Steep Cost of Ron DeSantis’s Vaccine Turnabout - The New York Times
That left the state particularly vulnerable when the Delta variant hit that month. Floridians died at a higher rate, adjusted for age, than residents of almost any other state during the Delta wave, according to the Times analysis. With less than 7 percent of the nation's population, Florida accounted for 14 percent of deaths between the start of July and the end of October.
Of the 23,000 Floridians who died, 9,000 were younger than 65. Despite the governor's insistence at the time that "our entire vulnerable population has basically been vaccinated," a vast majority of the 23,000 were either unvaccinated or had not yet completed the two-dose regimen...
Monday, May 29, 2023
Michael Flynn Launches 4ThePURE Site for COVID-19 Unvaccinated People
The community is called 4thePURE, and members can connect with blood donors, sperm donors, breastmilk donors, surrogates, and unvaccinated singles, according to the website. It will also have a directory of "COVID-19 unvaccinated patriot businesses."…
Saturday, May 13, 2023
PolitiFact | Pfizer’s $2.3 billion settlement was not related to COVID-19 vaccines
The videos imply that the settlement just occurred and is related to COVID-19 vaccines. But the footage is from Sept. 2, 2009, a decade before the COVID-19 pandemic began…
Friday, May 12, 2023
Friday, April 21, 2023
U.S. Authorizes a New Round of Covid Boosters - The New York Times
Older Americans and those with weakened immune systems, groups still particularly vulnerable to the virus, may receive additional shots of the reformulated vaccine, federal officials said...
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Oxfam Shows US Billionaires Almost a Third Richer Today Than When Covid Hit
An annual net wealth tax could raise over half a trillion dollars ($582.6 billion) each year, by taxing more than only billionaires and using marginally higher rates: 2% for wealth above $5 million, 3% above $50 million, and 5% above $1 billion…
Saturday, March 25, 2023
Friday, March 24, 2023
Bernie Sanders Targets Moderna Greed in Covid-19 Vaccine Hearing
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday denounced Moderna's proposal to more than quadruple the price of the Covid-19 vaccine it co-developed with billions of dollars in public funding—along with mRNA technology co-invented by government scientists—as an example of Big Pharma's "unacceptable corporate greed."…
Sunday, March 19, 2023
New data links Covid-19’s origins to raccoon dogs at Wuhan market
"The data does point even further to a market origin," Prof Kristian Andersen, an evolutionary biologist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, told Science magazine. Andersen attended a meeting of the WHO's scientific advisory group for the origins of novel pathogens and is working on the data...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
What the research shows about risks of myocarditis from COVID vaccines versus risks of heart damage from COVID – two pediatric cardiologists explain how to parse the data
Studies have largely confirmed that the overall myocarditis risk is significantly higher after an actual COVID-19 infection compared with vaccination, and that the prognosis following myocarditis due to the vaccine is better than from infection...
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Opinion | Here’s Why the Science Is Clear That Masks Work - The New York Times
Crucially, the question of whether a mask reduces a wearer's risk of infection is not the same as whether wearing masks slows the spread of respiratory viruses in a community...
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Opinion: Were masks useless? The deceptive interpretation of what science tells us | CNN
The "money quote" comes from an interview that esteemed data scientist Dr. Tom Jefferson, the lead author of the Cochrane study, gave in an interview: "There is just no evidence that (masks) make any difference, full stop." …
But this emphatically is not the conclusion of the twelve authors... The actual Cochrane article concludes something directly at odds with Jefferson's statement…
Saturday, March 4, 2023
COVID-19: Biden to take aim at pandemic-relief fraudsters
The Government Accountability Office reported last month that the extent of fraud in COVID-relief programs is not yet known but that the Unemployment Insurance program alone was believed to have made more than $60 billion in fraudulent payments.
From March 2020 to last January, at least 1,044 people pleaded guilty or were convicted of defrauding COVID relief programs, the GAO report said. Federal charges were pending against another 609 individuals or entities for attempting to defraud COVID-relief programs...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Don’t believe those who claim science proves masks don’t work | Lucky Tran | The Guardian
The mischaracterization of the Cochrane review by its authors and like-minded supporters is deliberate. Those with vested interests are sowing doubt about the science of Covid-19 protections by using the same disinformation playbook that tobacco companies, the fossil fuel industry and the anti-vax movement have used in the past.
Saturday, February 25, 2023
GOP Ex-Sen. Inhofe Retired Due To Long COVID After Opposing COVID Aid | HuffPost Latest News
The longtime senator from Oklahoma said complications from the virus contributed to his stepping aside...
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