Category: TRENDS EYE VIEW

In last week’s Trends Journal, it was reported that Americans are becoming less confident in the safety of a future COVID vaccine, citing the Wall Street Journal/NBC poll showing “only 20 percent of registered voters said they would be willing to take a vaccine once it hits the market.” This is part of a larger,...

DrugStoreNews.com reported that in 2017, in an average year, fewer than half of college students typically receive a flu shot. Now, colleges across the U.S. are beginning to require on-campus students to receive a flu shot or face disciplinary action, like being locked out of their school email account. The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday...

On 9 May 2009, the American Thoracic Society published the article, “Children Who Get Flu Vaccine Have Three Times Risk of Hospitalization for Flu, Study Suggests.” The article, published on the “Science Daily” website, stated, “The inactivated flu vaccine does not appear to be effective in preventing influenza-related hospitalizations in children, especially the ones with...

David Malpass, the President of the World Bank Group, said last week the bank will require at least $70 billion a year to reduce COVID’s impact on poverty, according to Nairametrics. “To put the financial challenge in perspective, consider the 100 million people we fear have already been pushed into extreme poverty by COVID-19. To...

Border Patrol agents on the U.S.-Mexican border recorded their busiest month since 2006 involving illegal border crossings, according to a report in last Thursday’s Wall Street Journal. The agency said agents caught 54,771 migrants trying to enter the country illegally and immediately expelled 48,327 of them. Despite the high number in September, the number of...

A recent Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll showed the vast majority of Americans believe democracy is not working very well in what is seen as a “Divided States of America.” The U.S. has seen several major events this past year, including violent protests over the death of George Floyd, 30 million Americans...

Scientists say the drop in some air pollutants in China during the past few months may have resulted in a significant decrease in hospitalizations from other ailments while the country worked to get a grip on the coronavirus outbreak. The South China Morning Post reported that cleaner air in some of the country’s large cities...

The planet has just experienced its hottest September on record, beating out last year’s temperature by 0.09 degrees Fahrenheit, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said in a statement released last week. The BBC reported researchers point to the record temperature and blame emissions that result from humans. Scientists have also raised alarms that Arctic sea...

As we have been reporting for years, the rich are getting richer and the “Bigs” are getting bigger, as the plantation workers of Slavelandia get poorer. Bloomberg’s “Billionaires Index” released data last week that showed the richest 59 billionaires in the U.S. watched their net worth skyrocket during the coronavirus outbreak and now own more...

Worried COVID will kill you? As dozens of governors continue to impose coronavirus lockdown restrictions despite declining death rates, as college administrators continue to ban all partying and limit any social gatherings despite data showing college students are among the least likely to get sick with the virus, millions of Americans across the country continue...