Back in the fraught winter of 2020 when covid vaccines were first authorized but not yet widely available, I found myself as a guest on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast. My goal was to promote and discuss my book on the benefits of greater population density, so I didn’t come prepared to debate vaccines or … Read more
The novel coronavirus, like all viruses, mutates and evolves. Fast. Variant after variant. Subvariants between the variants. The virus is active. But our efforts to contain it are reactive. Thirty-four months into the COVID-19 pandemic, we still haven’t figured out a way to get ahead of the virus—and offer people immunity that endures even as … Read more
A pediatric cardiologist says that it’s now clear from all of the available evidence that the spike proteins the COVID-19 vaccines tell the body to make are toxic to the heart, and that myocarditis in young people is not as rare as the CDC and FDA have led Americans to believe. In a lecture on … Read more
Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) It’s flu shot season and, once again, the influenza vaccine is an important one to get. With mask-wearing on the decline, there’s likely to be more of every common respiratory virus around. So you might as well protect yourself against the ones that have safe, effective vaccines readily available. In … Read more
When the pharmaceutical industry scrambled to develop the first COVID vaccines back in 2020, it made sense that developers focused on the part of the virus that allows it to grab onto and infect our cells: the spike proteins. The best vaccines contain a piece of the spike, or genetic data about the spike, either … Read more
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorize new COVID-19 booster shots this week without a staple of its normal decision-making process: data from a study showing whether the shots were safe and worked in humans. The shots, modified to target the latest versions of the omicron variant, won’t have finished testing in humans when the FDA … Read more
Polio has reappeared in the United States for the first time in a generation. On July 18, the New York State Department of Health told the US Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention that it had detected poliovirus, which can cause polio, in a young adult from Rockland County, outside New York, who Can … Read more
The continued increase in local coronavirus cases has prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to move San Diego County to its high-risk level for COVID-19. cdc track community level of the virus based on geographic regions to determine the impact of COVID-19 in communities, and to allow individual jurisdictions to implement preventive strategies … Read more
The Big Apple’s health department is finally switching to a city-built mass vaccination system to handle future monkeypox appointments, a change that equates to a major course correction from the agency amid growing despair over the outbreak. It comes just hours after DOHMH officials investigated Post Cast skepticism over repeated explanations as to why they … Read more
Gay and bisexual men in the US are hitting walls to find a monkeypox vaccine because of limited supplies, with some activists criticizing the government as being too slow to increase its vaccine stockpiles. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while the US awaits about 800,000 vaccine doses in Denmark, the number … Read more
California State Sen. Scott Wiener (D) said in a statement on Thursday That the city of San Francisco is heading towards a public health crisis caused by the uncontrolled spread of the monkeypox virus. City Public Health Department (DPH) tweeted on Wednesday that his walk-in clinic would be closed Due to lack of vaccine for … Read more
New York – More monkeypox vaccine appointments were released on Tuesday afternoon. This was welcome news for those concerned who think that they may have been exposed. But as CBS2’s Natalie Dudridge pointed out, they still ain’t easy to find. While waiting in line at the Chelsea Sexual Health Clinic, dozens tried to get one … Read more
Monkeypox vaccines are in high demand in New York City. So much so that when the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced a limited amount of appointments at 1 p.m. Tuesday, the online scheduling website crashed within minutes. It acknowledged the issue on Twitter at 1:29 pm, leading to an online uproar about the … Read more