Opinion Screenshot: KHOU 11 YouTube Video Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced that he is suing Pfizer, claiming that the pharmaceutical company misrepresented the efficacy of their vaccine and tried to silence critics. Paxton (R) claims that Pfizer is in violation of the Texas Deceptive Practices Act by having …
Read More »Vaccine Equality Is as Vital for Livestock as for People
Enrique Hernández Pando Opinion by Enrique Hernandez Pando (madrid, spain) Tuesday, August 22, 2023 Inter Press Service MADRID, Spain, Aug 22 (IPS) – Enrique Hernández Pando is Executive Director, Commercial Development & Impact, GALVmedEl Castellar – For 33-year-old mother-of-seven and poultry farmer Helena Kindole in Chanya village in Tanzania, one of …
Read More »The Steep Cost of Ron DeSantis’s Vaccine Turnabout
On a Saturday in September 2020, with Covid-19 killing more than 600 Americans daily and hundreds of thousands of deaths still to come, Dr. Deborah L. Birx, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, heard her cellphone ring. It was Dr. Scott Rivkees, the Florida surgeon general. He …
Read More »Can Africa Get Close to Vaccine Independence? Here’s What It Will Take.
Just 3 percent of all Covid-19 vaccine doses delivered in 2021 went to Africa, home to a fifth of the world’s population, according to the World Health Organization. In the vast debacle of global vaccine inequity, it was Africa that was left furthest behind as the pandemic raged, and that …
Read More »Nigeria becomes second country to approve R21 malaria vaccine
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has approved the R21 malaria vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India. This makes Nigeria the second country to approve the new malaria vaccine developed at the University of Oxford, after Ghana. The Director General of NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola …
Read More »Congressmen Want Marines Expelled By Vaccine Mandates Brought Back
By Alan Wooten (The Center Square) The Marine Corps is being asked by four members of Congress, led by a practicing doctor from North Carolina, to reach out to and return thousands of Marines expelled because of COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Wednesday’s letter to Gen. David Berger, commandant of the Marines, cited …
Read More »Researchers: City-Wide Vaccine Mandates Did Nothing To Stop The Spread Of COVID-19
By Casey Harper (The Center Square) A slew of city-wide vaccine mandates announced in 2021 across parts of the U.S. made virtually no difference in stopping the spread of COVID-19, newly released research found. “These mandates imposed severe restrictions on the lives of many citizens and business owners,” the study, conducted …
Read More »How 4 Republican Senators Turned Their Backs on Servicemen Discharged for Refusing the COVID Vaccine Mandate
Suppose you believe the right-wing media and the Republicans in Congress. In that case, there is much to celebrate on the military COVID vaccine mandate front. The President signed the bill, and the Pentagon rescinded the subsequent mandate that all military members must get the COVID vaccine to remain in …
Read More »Lawsuits Over Military Vaccine Mandate to Move Forward
By Bethany Blankley (The Center Square) Liberty Counsel is continuing with its lawsuits in federal court over the Department of Defense COVID-19 vaccine mandate even after the mandate was rescinded this week. Liberty Counsel founder and chairman Mat Staver told The Center Square he wasn’t confident that the DOD wouldn’t …
Read More »Cholera: An underreported and underestimated vaccine preventable disease
Cholera is a severe diarrheal disease caused by consumption of food or water contaminated with the bacterium; Vibrio cholerae. Epidemic cholera is caused by infection with toxigenic Vibrio cholerae serogroups O1 or O139. According to CDC (2021), it is a major cause of epidemic diarrhea throughout the developing world. In …
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