VAERS data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included a total of 1,103,893 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 23,615 deaths and 188,135 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and Feb. 4, 2022.
U.S. drug regulators on Feb. 11 announced they are pushing back a decision on whether to authorize Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children as young as 6 months old.
Jeanie Evans, 68, of Effingham, Kansas, died of "anaphylaxis due to COVID-19 vaccination," according to her autopsy report. Evans died March 24, 2021, one day after her first dose of Moderna’s vaccine.
Despite conclusive evidence young children have virtually no risk of severe complications or death from COVID-19, Pfizer, at the urging of federal health officials, is hustling to get infants and toddlers injected with experimental COVID vaccines.
Attorneys general from 16 states, led by Louisiana, filed a new legal challenge to COVID-19 vaccine mandates for U.S. healthcare workers claiming the mandates are illegal and obsolete, as the vaccines don’t work against Omicron, the dominant variant in the U.S.
Sweden and Switzerland joined Denmark, Norway, Finland, Ireland, The Netherlands, Italy, Lithuania, France and the UK in announcing they will lift COVID restrictions and open up their countries.
Colleges and universities are struggling to keep up with the demand for mental health services, as college students seek mental health therapy on campus in droves, part of a 15-year upswing that spiked during the pandemic.
