Adverse Effects of COVID-19 Vaccines and Measures to Prevent Them

Kenji Yamamoto Recently, The Lancet published a study on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and the waning of immunity with time. The study showed that immune function among vaccinated individuals 8 months after the administration of two doses of COVID-19 vaccine was lower than that among the unvaccinated individuals. According to European Medicines Agency recommendations, […]

A FOIA Request Came in for Nova Scotia

Jessica Rose Please refer to the recently FOIAed document received from the Nova Scotia Office of the Deputy Minister Health and Wellness Department. There they go again with that fast and loose use of the word ‘Health’. It is dated June 1, 2022. … The document shows that COVID-19 injectable product use has a dose response: […]

Ethical Questions Surround Vaccine to Reduce Fertility

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Jacob Puliyel The prestigious journal Nature Medicine, in its February issue reported that the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is to do a clinical trial of a tetanus toxoid vaccine (TT) laced with a pregnancy hormone, human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). It is to be studied on 120 women in India. This “vaccine” against pregnancy was […]

Oral Polio Drops Linked to Paralysis in India

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Ranjit Devraj While India’s oral polio vaccine (OPV) drives have eliminated polio from the country, they have also resulted in over 490,000 cases of paralysis during 2000—2017, says a new study based on national surveillance statistics.

Effects of Previous Infection and Vaccination on Symptomatic Omicron Infections

Heba N. Altarawneh et al. No notable differences were observed in the effectiveness against BA.1 and BA.2 of previousinfection, vaccination, and hybrid immunity. Protection from previous infection with variants other than omicron against reinfection was moderate and durable, but protection of primary-series vaccination against infection was negligible by 6 months after the second dose. Recent […]