Showing posts with label side effects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label side effects. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

‘Efficacy will be secondary’: RFK Jr.'s vaccine advisers have a new mission - POLITICO

"They're going to be the mechanism to sow discord and confusion by presenting weird stuff," Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned last year from his post leading the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/03/rfk-jr-vaccine-advisers-new-mission-00758670 


 

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Russia trying to undermine confidence in COVID-19 vaccines: report | TheHill

.. The Wall Street Journal reports that the official, from the State Department's Global Engagement Center (GEC), identified four small online publications that are spreading false and misleading claims by playing up the vaccines' side effects, questioning their efficacy and claiming that the U.S. had rushed the development of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine...


Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Damage to multiple organs recorded in 'long Covid' cases

...Preliminary data from the first 200 patients to undergo screening suggests that almost 70% have impairments in one or more organs, including the heart, lungs, liver and pancreas, four months after their initial illness...


Friday, November 13, 2020

Covid-19 vaccines may have potentially unpleasant side effects

...The vaccine, and likely most others, will require two doses to work, injections that must be given weeks apart, company protocols show. Scientists anticipate that the shots will cause enervating flu-like side effects — including sore arms, muscle aches and fever — that could last days and temporarily sideline some people from work or school. And even if a vaccine proves 90 percent effective, the rate Pfizer touted for its product, 1 in 10 recipients would still be vulnerable. That means, at least in the short term, as population-level immunity grows, people can't stop social distancing and throw away their masks...

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Trump Talks Up Drug That Increases Risk of Cardiac Arrest

AN EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT for Covid-19 championed by President Donald Trump — in which patients are given doses of hydroxychloroquine, a drug used to treat malaria and lupus, along with the antibiotic azithromycin — raises the risk for some patients of dangerous irregular heartbeats that could be fatal, cardiologists warn in new guidance published by the American College of Cardiology.
https://theintercept.com/2020/04/06/drug-treatment-trump-talks-covid-can-fatal-side-effect-cardiologists-warn/




Tuesday, September 18, 2018

More Older Americans Are Turning To Marijuana - NPR

As marijuana gains popularity among people 65 and older, geriatricians call for more research on how it affects elderly patients. Shifts in metabolism as we age can intensify any drug's side effects. ....
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/12/646423762/more-older-americans-are-turning-to-marijuana







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