Health officials and vaccine makers call for boosters after studies show Pfizer vaccine is less effective against Omicron, but data on breakthrough cases suggest the vaccine hasn’t been effective against other strains, either.
Now more than ever we need substantive debate about decisions that affect the health of hundreds of millions of people, including views counter to official positions.
A new survey coming from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) gives new insights as to the link between religion and the refusal to get vaccinated against COVID.
A study out of the University of Portsmouth in the UK has found that instances of littering with face masks and other PPE surged by 9000 percent during the first seven months of the coronavirus pandemic, and may have even helped the virus to spread more rapidly.
Attempts to turn social media into an exclusive club where only elites have a right to speak in the name of rooting out dangerous misinformation are fundamentally wrong, a senior Meta official said.
Documents released by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reveal that drugmaker Pfizer recorded nearly 160,000 adverse reactions to its Covid-19 vaccine in the initial months of its rollout.
The number of new positive cases of COVID-19 reported in South Africa has continued its downward trend despite increased testing, according to South African National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) data.