A calculator created to facilitate COVID-19 vaccination rates amongst Australians has been updated to include the latest information on vaccines for kids in order to increase child vaccinations. Launched by the Immunisation Coalition, and made up of a team of GPs, medical scientists, public health physicians, epidemiologists, and statisticians, the COVID-19 risk calculator (CoRiCal) was…

An Australian senator has said he is concerned about the country’s therapeutic authorities’ delayed approach to updating Australia’s Database of Adverse Event Notifications (DAEN) after it was revealed the government body had neglected to include a number of deaths attributed to the vaccine, including that of two children aged 7 and 9. This comes after a…

An Australian senator has said he is concerned about the country’s therapeutic authorities’ delayed approach to updating Australia’s Database of Adverse Event Notifications (DAEN) after it was revealed the government body had neglected to include a number of deaths attributed to the vaccine, including that of two children aged 7 and 9. This comes after a…

Commentary Under its Emergency Use Authorization, this past June the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved experimental COVID-19 vaccines for infants and for children under 5 or 6 years old, depending on the vaccine. Was this wise? These injections have never been tested for long-term safety and efficacy, which by itself is highly concerning. What…

The FDA began recommending COVID-19 vaccines to children in June of this year. Over the course of the summer, nearly a million children in America were vaccinated. Throughout this time, the CDC closely monitored the data. Their recent findings suggest that about half of babies and toddlers who get Moderna or Pfizer COVID vaccines experience…

Switzerland has approved Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 6 to 11 years, according to Swissmedic, the country’s surveillance authority for medicines and medical devices. Moderna’s Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine will be administered to the children in two half-doses of 50 micrograms each at an interval of four weeks, Swissmedic said in a news release dated May…

Australian federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has flagged the possibility that children aged zero to four may become eligible for a COVID-19 jab, prompting a warning from One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts. As Australia opens up and learns to live with COVID-19, the federal government has budgeted hundreds of millions of dollars to extend its vaccination…

Some vaccinated youngsters in the 12–20 age group have reported a hyper-inflammatory condition where the body’s immune system goes into overdrive and shows symptoms of fever and systemic inflammation involving multiple organ systems, according to a study published Tuesday. There were 5,973 cases of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) reported to the MIS-C national…

Commentary As we near the end of 2021, most people would have expected that the spectre of COVID-19 would have receded and that normal life would have reasserted itself. However, the reality is that the constant mutation of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus and the responses of governments ensure that the pandemic is very…

The Biden administration has purchased an additional 50 million Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine doses for children to be delivered by the end of April next year, the drugmakers said in a statement on Thursday. “The U.S. will receive these additional doses to continue to support preparedness for pediatric vaccinations, including securing vaccines for children under 5…