Deadlines loom for U.S. troops to get fully vaccinated or lose their positions, yet hundreds of thousands have still only had one dose of a Covid vaccine or no doses at all.
A new survey suggests that less than 40% of American parents with children aged five-11 plan on getting them vaccinated against Covid, while the rest are either opposed or haven't yet made up their minds.
Through a mandatory vaccination provision embedded in the “Build Back Better” spending bill, the Biden Administration is hoping to increase the fines on businesses which employ unvaccinated workers by a factor of 10.
Pfizer's CEO says that the pharmaceutical giant will ask the U.S. FDA to approve the use of its Covid vaccines in 5-11 year-olds "within days".
President Joe Biden has blamed the 70 million Americans who have not been vaccinated against Covid of slowing down the country's economy, pledging to move forward with vaccine mandates "wherever I can".
The U.S. CDC has ignored the verdict of its own Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices that people under the age of 65 who work in 'high risk' settings, including teachers, should not be given booster jabs.
Pfizer is planning to seek approval for its Covid vaccine in babies as young as six months in the U.S. this winter and is also set to seek approval for its jab in 5-11 year olds in America and across Europe.
Once again, interventions are shown to be unnecessary to end a Covid surge. But is Delta the last variant to cause a surge or will there be more?
President Joe Biden doesn't seem put off by the prospect of legal challenges over his plans to impose vaccine mandates on federal workers, telling his critics: "Have at it."
by Cephas Alain In his final speech from the White House, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned that an arms race would take resources from other areas – such as building schools and hospitals. As interest has increased in the lab leak hypothesis for the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic it has cast the spotlight upon the behaviours of parts of the scientific community, including the role of peer review, conflicts of interest and the ownership and funding of professional journals. In turn, this can all be considered within national and international political and organisational contexts. ‘Big Pharma’ is also under scrutiny. This article seeks to explain the general nature of the potential threat posed by Big Pharma. It is not a new story. Indeed, it can be usefully discussed with the help of a 60 year-old Presidential address. On September 5th, 2021, LBC radio host and commentator Maajid Nawaz drew an analogy from Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address to the nation as 34th President of the United States on January 17th, 1961. Maajid Nawaz suggested that the threat to democratic society described by President Eisenhower of the ‘Military-Industrial Complex’ has, at least to some degree, been supplanted by a ‘Big Pharma Industrial Complex’. He also suggested that the behaviours of governments in pursuing Covid related policies, such as the vaccination of ...
