Coronavirus
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Federally funded researchers bury results on COVID vaccine effect on liver, kidney risks in youth
NIH-funded study of "long COVID" and reinfection hides findings on risks stratified by vaccination status deep in a supplement, contradicting researchers' conclusions and media narrative that vaccines are the answer.
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You Vote: Do you agree with CDC's vote to end universal recommendation for the COVID vaccination?
The CDC panel voted to change the universal guidance, which previously recommended the 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine for most adults, but Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr still needs to sign off on the change.
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New York says 'physical activity' increases risk from COVID in health guidance to circumvent FDA
State Department of Health encourages doctors, pharmacists to prescribe "off-label" so everyone 3 and up, regardless of health, can easily get COVID vaccines. Hochul's executive order cites study rebutted years ago by Trump officials.
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NIH officials flouting Trump, protecting viral research that may have unleashed COVID: report
Former White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy director, a critic of Anthony Fauci's gain-of-function policy who was leading the Trump-ordered revision, left ahead of the deadline.
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Death by a thousand cuts? CDC advisers plot sweeping COVID vax review as RFK Jr. yanks emergency OK
"For some reason, there is a misconception that harms of vaccines primarily show up shortly after vaccination," says chair of new working group and MIT professor Retsef Levi, known for vaccine-heart problem study.
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COVID boosters increase 'influenza-like illness' risk, Swiss study finds, as feds cling to mRNA
HHS reinstates vaccine safety task force apparently in response to looming lawsuit deadline by group Secretary Kennedy founded. NIH director says mRNA is "promising technology," denies mRNA vaccines caused "mass harm."
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Health officials downplayed data on natural immunity, misrepresented study, never updated findings
Senior health officials responsible for the pandemic response mischaracterized an early study on COVID immunity, downplayed natural immunity data and never updated messaging about natural immunity vs. vaccination because it would be “too costly” not to.
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COVID mRNA vaccines create 'numerous off-target products' that get stuck in heart cells: study
Federal regulators are caught between old-guard conservatives who demand continued mRNA funding, Rep. Massie's demand to "immediately revoke licensure of the mRNA COVID shots" for "shoddy" approvals and side effects.
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'Bad faith': Hiding records on politicized COVID school reopening earns county maximum penalty
Pennsylvania's Bucks County suffers third consecutive loss in "right to know" legal fight over who drastically changed COVID rules after Democratic governor's cabinet intervened. Commissioner known for allegedly violating court order.
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COVID boosters correlate with worse survival rates for cancer with third-most deaths: study
Trump administration policy tug-of-war between big medical groups that want COVID vaccines back on CDC schedule for healthy kids and pregnant women, groups that want mandate ban extended to health sciences students.
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FDA, CDC advisers say lost pregnancies higher than expected following early mRNA vaccination
Lower-than-expected pregnancy loss following flu vaccine, however. HHS wants 18-month hold on FOIA litigation related to vaccines including for COVID, litigant's lawyer says.
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COVID cases increase in parts of US, worldwide, amid emerging 'razor blade throat' subvariant
The variant — NB.1.8.1. or “Nimbus” – got the nickname because it can cause painful sore throats.
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Chinese neuroscientists’ work on early COVID-19 vaccine patent a smoking gun in probe of cover-up
The unusual collaboration between Chinese vaccine researchers and neuroscientists raises questions about how early China knew about COVID-19’s neurological symptoms, which are unusual for these types of viruses.