The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Aug. 22 approved new COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech. The shots, based on messenger ribonucleic acid technology (mRNA), target the KP.2 strain. “These updated vaccines meet the agency’s rigorous, scientific standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufacturing quality,” Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for […]
U.S. Supreme Court justices on June 24 rejected appeals brought over COVID-19 vaccines by Children’s Health Defense (CHD), a nonprofit founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an independent candidate running for president. The nation’s top court rejected an appeal seeking to overturn lower court rulings that said CHD and its members lacked standing to sue […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on June 3 recommended updating the formulation of the COVID-19 vaccines because of studies that indicate their effectiveness is worse against circulating variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. “In prior years there appears to have been an inverse relationship between the time since vaccination and vaccine […]
The House Armed Services Committee adopted an amendment in the annual defense policy bill on Wednesday that, if cleared through Congress, would force the Pentagon to rehire U.S. troops who were fired for refusing a COVID-19 vaccine. The measure was adopted late Wednesday evening by lawmakers on the panel, who marked up and advanced their […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is discontinuing a program that offered free COVID-19 vaccines to uninsured adults in the United States, according to the agency’s website. The CDC said in an update that its Bridge Access Program, which offers free COVID-19 vaccines to adults who do not have health insurance or whose […]
AstraZeneca has commenced a global withdrawal of its COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, citing a “surplus” of updated jabs for new variants, months after acknowledging its rare risk of serious side effects. The pharmaceutical giant’s jab, Vaxzevria, is no longer authorized in the European Union as of May 7, after AstraZeneca requested the withdrawal of its […]
A new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study does not disprove a link between COVID-19 vaccines and sudden deaths among young people, contrary to claims. The study, published by the CDC’s quasi-journal on April 11, analyzed death certificates from Oregon for people aged 16 to 30 who died between June 2021 and […]
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released previously hidden reports of facial paralysis and other adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination. The 780,000 reports were received shortly after the COVID-19 vaccines were rolled out and show that people experienced a wide range of post-vaccination problems, including heart inflammation, miscarriages, and seizures. “Loss […]
The Tennessee Legislature has passed a bill that would require foods containing vaccines or vaccine materials to be labeled as pharmaceutical drugs. The bill, HB 1894, passed in a 23–6 vote in the Tennessee Senate on March 28 after the state House passed it 73–22 on March 4. It now awaits the governor’s signature. The measure […]
The U.S. government is trying to force a COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer to hand over money, the manufacturer said in new filings. BioNTech received a notice of default from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) on March 22, BioNTech said in one of the forms. The notice relates to “alleged amounts owed” and breaches under […]
Vaccine-maker Pfizer Inc., in a filing to the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission, wrote that its COVID-19 vaccine revenue is down 70 percent in 2023. “Declines largely driven by lower contracted deliveries and demand in international markets and lower U.S. government contracted deliveries, due to transition to new variant vaccines in most markets and the transition […]
A group of experts on Monday sat down with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) for a roundtable discussion in the Senate Russell Office Building. The forum zoomed in on what they believed to be a lack of transparency surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines.
A multinational study of over 99 million vaccinated people has identified higher incidences of neurological, cardiovascular, and blood disorder complications than what the researchers expected. The peer-reviewed observational cohort study, published in the Vaccine journal on Feb. 12, aimed to evaluate the risk of 13 adverse events of special interest (AESI) following COVID-19 vaccination. The […]
Pfizer and Moderna have formally asked U.S. regulators to grant emergency authorization for new COVID-19 vaccine boosters for children as young as five. Pfizer and its partner BioNTech submitted a request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Sept. 26, several days after Moderna submitted a request to the FDA. The FDA authorized […]
