The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) backed the recommendation of its advisory panel to designate the mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech the “preferred” vaccination option, citing newly-released data on the incidence of a severe but rare blood clot disorder in the adenovirus-based jab from Johnson & …
Read More »African nation to destroy 1 million Covid-19 vaccines
The vaccines that were beyond their date of use have been withdrawn and will be destroyed in line with the protocol, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), said on Monday. No Nigerian citizens have been injected with expired jabs, Shuaib assured …
Read More »Top Covid-19 adviser assesses if vaccines will work against Omicron
“We’re not going to have a severe epidemic” because of the Omicron strain, Barry Schoub, who heads South Africa’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on Covid-19 vaccines, told Israel’s Channel 12 on Friday. The new wave of infections in the country “is going to be a lot less severe. There’s a lot …
Read More »WHO warns about unintended effect of vaccines
“In many countries and communities, we are concerned about the false sense of security that vaccines have ended the pandemic and that people who are vaccinated do not need to take any other precautions,” the WHO’s director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said Wednesday at a press conference on the Covid-19 …
Read More »Americans got richer thanks to vaccines & Covid policies, Biden claims
The president praised his economic leadership during a press conference on Tuesday, declaring the US was the only country whose residents could count themselves richer than they had been before the pandemic. However, while the Federal Reserve may have printed up a (digital) storm of new money to keep the …
Read More »Russian lawmaker explains how country could make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory
Speaking to RIA Novosti on Wednesday, Andrey Klishas, the chairman of the Russian senate’s committee on constitutional legislation said that requiring citizens to get Covid-19 jabs “does not contradict the constitution.” However, he added, the Kremlin would not be able to simply issue a decree, and MPs would have to …
Read More »CNN deploys ‘Sesame Street’ muppets to promote vaccines to children
On Saturday, CNN aired ‘The ABCs of COVID Vaccines: A CNN/Sesame Street Townhall for Families’, hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Erica Hill, in which numerous recognizable children’s characters like Elmo and Big Bird recommended children get their Covid-19 jabs now that the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the …
Read More »Ford to become first US automaker to mandate vaccines for 30,000+ workers
The company announced the move in a note to its 32,000 or so salaried employees on Wednesday, spokeswoman Monique Brentley confirmed to CNBC, telling them they must be vaccinated by December 8 or be placed on unpaid leave. “The goal is to achieve [the] highest possible vaccination rate without severe …
Read More »We need systemic way to update vaccines as mutating Covid-19 will be with us for a long time – Putin at G20
“According to expert opinions, the coronavirus will remain a threat for a long time,” the Russian president said on Sunday while addressing G20 leaders via video link. Putin added that more international cooperation is required in terms of mutual recognition of vaccines and immunization certificates by national governments. “Competition that …
Read More »Indiana family says their 4 & 5yo children received Covid vaccines by MISTAKE, after flu shot mix-up at Walgreens
Alexandra and Joshua Price of Evansville, Indiana told local media that they and their two young children were scheduled for flu shots at a local Walgreens on October 4, but were instead administered coronavirus shots by mistake. Though no Covid vaccine is approved for children younger than the age of …
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