News Round-Up
5 May 2024
by Will Jones
Two teenage boys who suffered heart inflammation following Pfizer’s Covid jabs and then seemed to recover had relapses months later, Italian researchers have reported.
Moderna and BioNTech shares both fell to their lowest price in years on Monday as the companies behind the most widely-used mRNA COVID-19 vaccines grapple with investor disappointment with crashing revenues.
A secret military-linked U.K. laboratory is making new variants of Covid and working on a vaccine for 'Disease X' in order to stop the next pandemic "in its tracks", according to the BBC.
Stroke incidence has ballooned since the Covid vaccine rollout with cases often correlating with Covid waves. A new paper sheds light on why.
Moderna’s Covid booster caused one in 35 people to have heart injuries detectable with blood tests, according to a new Swiss doctors’ report.
Medical ethics are vital and should be non-negotiable in a civilised society, including during an emergency. But sacred principles of bodily autonomy and informed consent were glibly cast aside during the pandemic.
COVID-19 saw the emergence of an industry of fact-checking websites and censorship of 'misinformation', portrayed as a danger to public health. Drs Roger Watson and Niall McCrae revisit one to see how well it has aged.
Safety professional Nick Hunt has written to the Health Secretary to raise his deep concerns about the MHRA, which consistently misses safety signals from dangerous medicines.
Safety concerns with the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine have been sparked by revelations of the cosy relationship between BioNTech and the German regulator which approved it for release.
If the vaccines saved lives, why were Florida's Covid waves no smaller after the rollout than before? The same can be said for Israel and Bahrain, while low-vaccination comparators often fared better.
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