Mass Vaccinations

VERY commonly used…  Anything where people get vaccinated…  generally if it involves vaccines, this category should be checked.  Almost everything falls under this.

Fact check: Hospitals get paid more if patients listed as COVID-19, on ventilators

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Our ruling: True We rate the claim that hospitals get paid more if patients are listed as COVID-19 and on ventilators as TRUE. Excerpt:  Michelle Rogers USA TODAY Network The claim: Hospitals get paid more if patients are listed as COVID-19, and on ventilators Sen. Scott Jensen, R-Minn., a physician in Minnesota, was interviewed by "The Ingraham Angle" host ... Read more

WHO Accused of Conducting Vaccine Trial Without Participant Consent in Three African Countries

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Full article:  https://gizmodo.com/who-accused-of-conducting-vaccine-trial-without-partici-1841939166   By  George Dvorsky 2/26/20 7:00PM Health officials prepare to vaccinate residents of the Malawi village of Tomali, where young children are test subjects for the world’s first vaccine against malaria. Image: AP A scathing opinion piece in the BMJ is accusing the World Health Organization of conducting a pilot program in … Read more

Serious adverse events associated with HPV vaccination

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Source:  https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/HPV_vaccination_safety_report_AHTA_dec17.pdf Read PDF: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A systematic literature review was undertaken to investigate serious adverse events associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. The HPV vaccine comes in two types: a bivalent (HPV 16/18, Cervarix™, GlaxoSmithKline) and a quadrivalent (HPV 6/11/16/18, Gardasil® or Silgard, Merck) vaccine. This review considered all primary and secondary (systematic review, … Read more

The Long Shadow of the 1976 Swine Flu Vaccine ‘Fiasco’

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Read entire article:  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-shadow-1976-swine-flu-vaccine-fiasco-180961994/ In the spring of 1976, it looked like that year’s flu was the real thing. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t, and rushed response led to a medical debacle that hasn’t gone away. “Some of the American public’s hesitance to embrace vaccines — the flu vaccine in particular — can be attributed to … Read more

Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens

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pbio.1002198 Excerpt:  Andrew F. Read , Susan J. Baigent, Claire Powers, Lydia B. Kgosana, Luke Blackwell, Lorraine P. Smith, David A. Kennedy, Stephen W. Walkden-Brown, Venugopal K. Nair Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens Andrew F. Read, Susan J. Baigent, Claire Powers, Lydia B. Kgosana, Luke Blackwell, Lorraine P. Smith, David A. ... Read more

Reflections on the 1976 Swine Flu Vaccination Program

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https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/1/05-1007_article Abstract In 1976, 2 recruits at Fort Dix, New Jersey, had an influenzalike illness. Isolates of virus taken from them included A/New Jersey/76 (Hsw1n1), a strain similar to the virus believed at the time to be the cause of the 1918 pandemic, commonly known as swine flu. Serologic studies at Fort Dix suggested that … Read more

Neurological complications of swine influenza vaccination

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Read entire article:  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6128862/ Abstract The emphasis upon the remarkably large number of cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome which resulted from the 1976 National Swine Influenza immunization program in the U.S.A. has obscured the fact that other neurological complications, involving the central nervous system also occurred. The anatomical distribution of lesions is almost identical with that … Read more