Authoritarian Pandemic Policies: A Reckoning
John H.S. Aberg With the Corona crisis another chapter was written in the biopolitical book of life. During the last two years, we have observed an unprecedented level of irrationality and political ill will in dealing with the pandemic. Vaccine mandates, vaccine apartheid, lockdowns, masking of schoolchildren, and ensuing restrictions on our freedom of assembly […]
The Public Health Playbook: Ideas for Challenging the Corporate Playbook
Jennifer Lacy-Nichols, Robert Marten, Eric Crosbie, Rob Moodie Many commercial actors use a range of coordinated and sophisticated strategies to protect business interests—their corporate playbook—but many of these strategies come at the expense of public health. To counter this corporate playbook and advance health and wellbeing, public health actors need to develop, refine, and modernise […]
Evaluating Compulsory Covid-19 Vaccination Mandates: Judicial or Legislative Review is Necessary to Determine Whether Mandates Without Exceptions For Natural Immunity Should Be Allowed to Stand
Julie Parrish In the time since Covid-19 vaccines became available to the American public, it seemed almost a foregone conclusion that state and federal governments, given their extensive use of executive authority and emergency rulemaking powers since the start of the pandemic, would eventually attempt to exercise police powers to mandate compulsory vaccination. What has become […]
Were Fears About Asymptomatic Covid Spread Overblown? Infected People without Symptoms are TWO-THIRDS Less Likely to Pass Virus On, Study Finds
John Ely Fears about silent spreaders of Covid — who suffer no symptoms but can pass the virus to others — may have been overblown. A study of nearly 30,000 people has found asymptomatic carriers are about 68 per cent less likely to pass the virus on than those who get sick. No10 used concerns […]
Incidence of Guillain-Barré Syndrome After COVID-19 Vaccination in the Vaccine Safety Datalink
Kayla E. Hanson et al. Are COVID-19vaccines associated with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS)? In this cohort study of surveillance data from the Vaccine Safety Datalink that included 15.1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, the unadjusted incidence rate of confirmed GBS in the 1 to 21 days after receiving the Ad.26.COV2.S (Janssen) vaccine was 32.4 per 100 […]
The Incidence of Myocarditis and Pericarditis in Post COVID-19 Unvaccinated Patients – A Large Population-Based Study
Ortal Tuvali et al. Myocarditis and pericarditis are potential post-acute cardiac sequelae of COVID-19 infection, arising from adaptive immune responses. We aimed to study the incidence of post-acute COVID-19 myocarditis and pericarditis. Retrospective cohort study of 196,992 adults after COVID-19 infection in Clalit Health Services members in Israel between March 2020 and January 2021. Inpatient […]
How the CDC Abandoned Science
Vinay Prasad The main federal agency guiding America’s pandemic policy is the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, which sets widely adopted policies on masking, vaccination, distancing, and other mitigation efforts to slow the spread of COVID and ensure the virus is less morbid when it leads to infection. The CDC is, in part, a scientific […]
The Unintended Consequences of COVID-19 Vaccine Policy: Why Mandates, Passports and Restrictions May Cause More Harm Than Good
Kevin Bardosh et al. Vaccination policies have shifted dramatically during COVID-19 with the rapid emergence of population-wide vaccine mandates, domestic vaccine passports and differential restrictions based on vaccination status. While these policies have prompted ethical, scientific, practical, legal and political debate, there has been limited evaluation of their potential unintended consequences. Here, we outline a […]
