Effects of N1-Methyl-Pseudouridine in the Pfizer mRNA Vaccine

Daniel B. Demers The use of messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines has been developing since 1990.  Historically, there have been three significant problems associated with mRNA vaccines.  First, it has always been a challenge for vaccine developers to get the desired mRNA into the cells of choice (the delivery problem).  Second, introducing a foreign RNA (the vaccine mRNA) […]

How Effective Are Covid Vaccines, Really?

Swiss Policy Research Magic potion or snake oil? An honest look at the international data. … Thus, while the risk/benefit ratio may still be positive in senior citizens and other risk groups (based on current evidence), this does not appear to be the case in healthy young adults and children. Danish professor in global health […]

What FDA Advisors Got Wrong About COVID Vaccines for Young Kids

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James Lyons-Weiler What members of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee saw and heard during Wednesday’s meeting should have stopped them from recommending authorization of COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as 6 months — but it didn’t.

FDA Unanimously Approve Covid Vaccine for 0-4 Years: Unfathomable Decision Given the Trial Data

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Health Advisory & Recovery Team (HART) It was depressing that in the FDA open meeting, none of the members pointed out that 2 months follow-up is totally inadequate for assessing safety, nor questioned the use of an antibody level as a measure of success.  … Moderna was also authorised for children at the same meeting, despite several countries having dropped it […]

“Covid Arm”” Abnormal Side Effect After Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine

Vincenzo Picone, Fabrizio Martora, Gabriella Fabbrocini, Laura Marano Both of them (Pfizer and Moderna) can be associated with cutaneous adverse effects. Several cutaneous reactions to Moderna (83%) or Pfizer (17%) COVID-19 vaccines were reported by McMahon et al. for 414 unique patients. The most common cutaneous reaction was delayed large local reaction, followed by local […]

Association of Cerebral Venous Thrombosis with mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines: A Disproportionality Analysis of the World Health Organization Pharmacovigilance Database

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Jin Park, Moo-Seok Park, Hyung Jun Kim, Tae-Jin Song Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT), a rare thrombotic event that can cause serious neurologic deficits, has been reported after some ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccinations against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, there are few reports of associations between COVID-19 mRNA vaccination and CVT. We retrospectively analyzed CVT occurrence, time […]