On Monday, Adar Poonawalla, the head of the Serum Institute of India (SII) said the European Medicines Agency (EMA) had elected against including Covishield in the list of vaccines sanctioned within the EU scheme. The program, which, from July 1, opens European borders to people who have been inoculated with …
Read More »BBC’s Andrew Marr says he caught Covid-19 AFTER vaccine
Speaking on his Sunday programme after a week off, Marr told viewers that “he had a bit of Covid last week, despite being double jabbed, and very nasty it was too.” Marr described his symptoms like those of a “summer cold,” and asked guest Professor Peter Horby, a government adviser …
Read More »Iran begins production of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19 (VIDEO)
The announcement that the test batch has been successfully completed was made by the distributor of Sputnik V, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), on Saturday. It also released a video, showing the experts from one of Iran’s leading pharma companies, Actoverco, during the production of the jab at a …
Read More »I’m no anti-vaxxer but there’s obvious corruption in how mRNA vaccine complications are downplayed compared to other jabs
A safety group from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently said that there’s a “likely association” between myocarditis, a rare inflammatory condition of the heart, for young adults and adolescents after receiving their second dose of either the Pfizer or Moderna Covid-19 vaccines. The fact that the media …
Read More »Cuba’s vaccine development success should be the impetus to lift sanctions and end the embargo
Cuban officials announced on Monday that its homegrown, three-shot Abdala vaccine has proven to be 92.28% effective in its final stage of clinical trials. The announcement follows similar news over the weekend, when another Cuban-developed vaccine candidate, Soberana 2, was announced to be 62% effective with just two of its …
Read More »UK govt gave contract to IT firm that is ‘openly plotting’ to turn vaccine passports into a national ID card, privacy groups warns
Entrust, an IT firm that bills itself as a “global leader in identities, payments, and data protection,” was awarded a contract by the Department of Health and Social Care last month to work on the UK’s Covid-19 vaccine certificate system. The company was given £250,000 ($346,000) to provide cloud-computing services …
Read More »UK Health Sec withheld promising vaccine data from PM, potentially influencing decision to extend Covid restrictions – media
A major Public Health England (PHE) study found that the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines were more effective at preventing hospitalisation with the strain than with other Covid variants. The health secretary was aware of the promising results but chose not to tell Johnson about them during a meeting to decide …
Read More »Trial of Germany’s CureVac vaccine shows only 47% effect against Covid-19, falling short of great expectations
Preliminary results from second and third-phase trials on 40,000 subjects in 10 countries of Europe and Latin America show that CureVac’s jab “did not meet pre-specified statistical success criteria,” the company announced on Wednesday. “In the unprecedented context of at least 13 variants circulating within the study population subset assessed …
Read More »South Africa discards 2 MILLION doses of J&J Covid-19 vaccine because of US Baltimore plant contamination – health watchdog
South Africa’s health products safety watchdog (SAHPRA) has decided not to greenlight the use of millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses stored at a plant in the city of Gqeberha, since the material they were produced from was “affected” by a contamination incident at the Baltimore factory, the nation’s health authorities …
Read More »US judge upholds vaccine mandate by Texas hospital system, marking first federal ruling on whether jabs can be forced on employees
US District Court Judge Lynn Hughes dismissed the lawsuit on Saturday, ruling that Houston Methodist had the legal right to force employees to be vaccinated – even though the jabs have only received emergency-use authorization, not full approval, from the FDA. He said the claim by the 117 employees who …
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