Viruses & Vaccines
The U.S. House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic invited the editors-in-chief of Nature, Science and The Lancet to testify on government interference in the peer-reviewed publication process. Only Science’s editor-in-chief participated in Tuesday’s hearing.
Only 1 of 3 science journal editors invited to testify before Congress on government interference in the peer-reviewed publication process accepted the invitation this week.
Holden Thorp, Ph.D., editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals, on Tuesday testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Magdalena Skipper, Ph.D., editor-in-chief of Nature, and Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of The Lancet, “declined to participate,” according to the subcommittee’s website.
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Read MoreModerna has engaged its own medical expert as it faces an inquest in Victoria, which is investigating whether a 21-year-old woman died because of its COVID-19 vaccine.
The pharmaceutical company’s lawyers appeared before the Coroners Court in Melbourne today for a hearing into the death of Natalie Boyce.
Boyce received her third COVID-19 jab on February 18, 2022, which was the Moderna mRNA vaccine, counsel assisting Jessika Syrjanen told the court.
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Read MoreBritish drugmaker GSK announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted an application for review of the company’s 5-in-1 meningococcal vaccine.
GSK’s MenABCWY vaccine candidate will target the five groups of Neisseria meningitidis bacteria (meningococcal serogroups A, B, C, W, and Y) that cause most cases of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) globally. It combines the antigenic components of GSK’s well-established meningococcal vaccines, Bexsero and Menveo.
Simplified immunization
The company says combining the protection offered by these vaccines into a single vaccine will reduce the number of injections, simplify immunization, and help increase series completion. Just under 12% of US adolescents have had the required two doses of Bexsero, which provides protection against meningococcal group B, the most common group of IMD-causing bacteria in US adolescents and young adults. Menveo prevents IMD caused by meningococcal groups A, C, Y, and W-135.
Among those who contract IMD, one in six will die and one in five may suffer long-term consequences such as brain damage. Teens and young adults are among those at greatest risk of contracting it.
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Read MoreA major new study has confirmed that Covid mRNA vaccines contain a component that suppresses the immune response in recipients and stimulates cancer growth.
The study was conducted by an international consortium of renowned scientists and published in the prestigious International Journal of Biological Macromolecules.
The researchers investigated the impact on humans of a vaccine ingredient known as “N1-methyl-pseudouridine (m1Ψ).”
In the study’s paper – titled, “N1-methyl-pseudouridine (m1Ψ): Friend or foe of cancer?” – the scientists explain that vaccine ingredient plays a role in immune suppression and cancer proliferation.
m1Ψ was incorporated into Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine to enhance its efficacy.
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Read MoreMartin Kulldorff on why lockdowns were a disaster for public health.
Almost as quickly as the Covid-19 pandemic swept the world in 2020, governments began locking down. These measures, we were told, might have been insanely authoritarian and historically unprecedented, but politicians were just ‘following the science’. We simply had to give up our freedoms in order to save lives. And yet, in Sweden, ‘the science’ looked very different. The nation refused to go into full lockdown, insisting this would be better for health in the long-run. It made itself a global pariah in the process.
So, four years on from the first lockdowns across the West, has Sweden’s more liberal approach been proven wrong or vindicated? Swedish epidemiologist and biostatistician Martin Kulldorff, one of the co-authors of the anti-lockdown Great Barrington Declaration, joined Brendan O’Neill on the latest episode of his podcast, The Brendan O’Neill Show, to discuss how Sweden fared. They also discussed censorship and the lockdown on dissent during the pandemic. What follows is an edited extract from their conversation. Listen to the full episode here.
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Read MoreSince April 2020, Pastor Art has been battling with the state non-stop; he has been fined, thrown in jail, and muzzled, but throughout it all, he never stopped fighting for freedom.
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pastor Artur Pawlowski was feeding the homeless downtown Calgary when over half a dozen police officers surrounded him and issued a $1,200 fine for allegedly breaking lockdown rules.
Since then, Pastor Artur’s top-notch lawyer has been fighting like a lioness for him.
Rebel News has been covering Pastor Artur’s story from the very beginning, including when, in July 2022, the Alberta Court of Appeal ruled that an injunction, arrest, jail time, censorship order and fines against him were illegal.
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Read MoreTens of thousands of people rallied over the weekend in a central Tokyo park to protest the World Health Organization’s (WHO) proposed pandemic treaty and amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) — proposals that critics allege threaten Japan’s and other countries’ national sovereignty.
Citizen’s Association against the Pandemic Treaty organized the rally, with help from the World Council of Health (WCH) Japan, according to historian and author Chikatsu Hayashi and Masayasu Inoue, M.D., Ph.D., professor emeritus of molecular pathology and medicine at Osaka City University Medical School.
The rally called for Japan’s withdrawal from the WHO. Participants also opposed the “pandemic treaty” and IHR amendments and the Japanese government’s public health policies, Hayashi and Inoue, who both spoke at the rally, told The Defender.
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Read MoreLast year, Moderna announced a $400 million royalty payment to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). More recently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reportedly demanded past-due royalties from BioNTech relating to mRNA technology.
Was protecting the NIH’s royalty payments the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) end game all along?
When the U.S. government’s control of all COVID-19 vaccines ends about the time of the scheduled Dec. 31, 2024, end of the COVID-19 emergency — and presumably the end of liability protection for vaccine makers under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act — what will happen is anybody’s guess.
HHS is mired in a delicate balancing act — one agency moves and the entire house of cards falls. HHS painted itself into a corner protecting pharma and agency interests while the people get the bum’s rush.
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Read MoreCanada’s provincial health-care systems have long suffered from a policy-driven confluence of high spending and poor performance. While some provinces have attempted minor reforms, all have largely remained committed to the status quo of monopolistic health care dominated by government. This lack of provincial policy innovation is at least partly driven by the federal government’s involvement in provincial policy making through the Canada Health Act and substantial cash transfers tied to provincial compliance.
This federal constraint on provincial experimentation must be reformed to free up provinces to explore proven approaches to delivering universally accessible health care.
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Read MoreOvertreatment with drugs kills many people, and the death rate is increasing. It is therefore strange that we have allowed this long-lasting drug pandemic to continue, and even more so because most of the drug deaths are easily preventable.
In 2013, I estimated that our prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer,1 and in 2015, that psychiatric drugs alone are also the third leading cause of death.2 However, in the US, it is commonly stated that our drugs are “only” the fourth leading cause of death.3,4 This estimate was derived from a 1998 meta-analysis of 39 US studies where monitors recorded all adverse drug reactions that occurred while the patients were in hospital, or which were the reason for hospital admission.5
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