Category: TRENDS IN THE VACCINE ROLLOUT

A family physician in Newfoundland, Dr. Peter Morry, who has been posting comments on his Facebook page critical of the government’s lockdown and mandatory mask edicts, is feeling pressure to stop. The critical force is coming from Newfoundland and Labrador’s medical regulator who specifically warned Dr. Morry to cease posting information that influences readers to...

On 8 March, Yahoo News reported a recent lab study revealed “troubling signs” regarding the effectiveness of both Pfizer and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines.  The lab study, published in Nature on 25 February, tested the two vaccines against a new South African variant. The results showed a sharp drop in effectiveness compared to results against the...

On 17 March, the European Union will offer details about its proposed vaccine passport, the EU version of the Israeli “Green Pass.” (See our 23 February article, “ISRAEL: NO VACCINE, NO GREEN PASSPORT.”)  But, proof of being vaccinated will not be enough to qualify for the passport. The vaccine has to be one of the...

A poll conducted by PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist, published on 11 March, reveals 78 percent of Democrats believe lockdowns need to be maintained while about 75 percent of Republicans want states to reopen economies now. On the subject of vaccination, almost 50 percent of those saying they are Trump supporters refuse to get vaccinated, while the number...

Anshei Emet, the anti-vax group in Israel, filed a lawsuit last week against the country over its coronavirus vaccine distribution, which the group said is tantamount to “crimes against humanity,” The Jerusalem Post reported. The group cited the 1947 Nuremberg Code that focused on medical experimentation by Nazi doctors. One report pointed to Pfizer CEO...

Italy faces challenges with its vaccine rollout. The use of one batch of AstraZeneca vaccines was banned after the sudden death of a serviceman in Sicily. Reuters reported that another batch of the AstraZeneca shots was also banned after the death of a teacher in the country’s Piedmont region on Saturday. “It is an act...

Yesterday, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Portugal, and Slovenia joined a growing list of European nations that put a hold on jabbing their citizens with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Germany’s health ministry tweeted, “Following reports of cerebral vein thrombosis in connection with the vaccination in Germany and Europe, the Paul Ehrlich Institute considers further investigations...

The CDC’s VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) database has recorded that at least 34 women experienced spontaneous miscarriages or stillbirths after receiving a COVID vaccine. Most of the reported miscarriages occurred in the first trimester, according to The Epoch Times and other reports. Twenty-five of the reported cases were associated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. ...

The many billions funded by taxpayers to develop and buy vaccines from Big Pharmaceuticals including Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson is just one aspect of “following the money” in the COVID pandemic saga. The lockdowns, which saw giants from retail and restaurant industries experience explosive growth in 2020, while small and local businesses were...

On 4 March, media ranging from the Financial Times to the San Diego ABC affiliate gave a cheerful review of a new study from the La Jolla Institute for Immunology. As the ABC affiliate reported, “New research suggests an important class of immune cells generated by the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are not fooled by...