Tag: feb 9 2021

For anyone who thought the availability of a COVID vaccine or “herd immunity” would lead to a return to anything like normal life in America, guess again. In a recent press conference, President Biden’s press secretary placed no time frame on precautions that many say are devastating the country more than the virus itself. Spokesperson...

In our 5 January Trends Journal, we reported a survey by the American Nurses Foundation found that “nearly half (44 percent) of nurses say they are not comfortable having conversations with their patients about COVID-19 vaccines.” (See our article, “MASSIVE VACCINATION CAMPAIGN.”) Now, a New Yorker article published on 2 February documents how many health...

French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday there are lingering questions about the Chinese vaccine, and he even suggested that an ineffective vaccine could help develop a new virus variant. Macron said there has been “no information” about the trials of the vaccine from Sinopharma and Sinovac. Fortune magazine reported that neither company published its Phase III trial...

Switzerland announced last week that it would not administer the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine because the data “available and evaluated to date [is] not yet sufficient,” the country’s health agency said. The Financial Times reported there have been concerns about the effectiveness of the shot with people above 65, and countries such as Sweden and Germany have advised...

Last Thursday, the website of Medscape.com contained an interview conducted last fall with Dr. Paul Alan Offit, Professor of Vaccinology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and former chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases (1992–2014). Some of the key points he made included: “It’s all happening at warp speed,...

On 29 January, the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford was approved by Europe’s drug regulator, the European Medicines Agency (EMA). It was first used in the U.K. As reported on CNBC at that time, the executive director of the EMA said, “With this third positive opinion, we have further expanded the arsenal...

On 27 January, Tanzanian President John Magufuli announced, “My fellow Tanzanians, let us stand firm, some of these vaccines are not good for us. I really urged the ministry of health to be very, very careful will all the vaccines which are imported into our country, not all vaccines are of good intentions to our...

Political leaders, government health officials, and the mainstream media are pushing as hard as they can to convince Americans to get vaccinated. The latest lure: get vaccinated, get laid. On 23 January, The New York Times published an article with the sub-headline “Getting the vaccine is the hottest thing you could be doing on a...

Last Thursday, Israel’s government announced its “fastest COVID-19 vaccination program in the world” would be expanded even more. The drive to get everyone in the country 16 and older injected began 20 December when the first Israeli to get vaccinated was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  As of last week, about a third of Israel’s population...