With the Omicron variant of COVID-19 raging and heralding “a winter of severe illness and death,” according to the White House’s ominous warning, Donald Trump chose this moment to reveal something about himself. Not only is he “fully vaxxed” against COVID-19, but he’s also gotten a booster shot. That’s something that millions of his supporters, …
The US is open again, sort of. After barring nonessential foreign travel from much of the world for almost two years, that policy has now been reversed for visitors from 33 countries. Provided, of course, they can show proof, among other things, of vaccination with an approved COVID vaccine. “Approved,” being the million-dollar word here. …
Scientists might have found a better way to administer vaccines that doesn’t require a needle. According to TheBrighterSide, scientists at Stanford University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have created a vaccine patch that they say provides greater protection than a standard shot. The patch, which is 3D-printed, needs to be applied …
Former FDA commissioner and Pfizer board member Dr. Scott Gottlieb shared some thoughts via his Twitter account over the weekend about a federal court temporarily pausing the implementation of the Biden vaccine mandate. He included some well-reasoned, level-headed commentary about whether there are less heavy-handed alternatives to reaching the goals that everyone wants during the …
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines has been in the news for weeks now for all the wrong reasons. There were more than 2,000 flight cancellations over a single weekend earlier this month, for example. The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association has also gone to court to challenge the Southwest Airlines vaccine mandate. Add in rolling waves of flight …
According to the latest data from the Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker, 127 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been administered in the United States to date. The country is averaging close to 2.5 million doses a day, and that number should continue to rise as eligibility expands leading up to May 1st, which is when President Biden …
A new directive from the CDC advises that women who received the COVID-19 vaccine SHOULD wait about four to six weeks before getting a mammogram. The new advisory comes in the wake of reports that the vaccine can cause swelling in the lymph nodes that can be mistaken as an indication of cancer. The issue …
As anyone who received a COVID vaccine sourced from Pfizer or Moderna can attest, the flu-like symptoms that can occur post-injection typically manifest after the second dose. More often than not, the only symptoms people experience after the first injection are limited to minor swelling and pain around the point of injection. At first glance, …
During a recent appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Dr. Anthony Fauci was asked which of the three vaccines available in the US — Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson — was his favorite. While the question was clearly a bit of a joke, it did have some seriousness to it to the …
For a short time, back when the initial COVID-19 vaccine supply was alarmingly low, some health experts floated the idea of using existing vaccine doses that had already been set aside for second injections. The theory, at the time, was that it would be more strategic and effective to vaccinate a larger group of people …
