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Growing Number of Countries Identify Cases of ‘Deltacron’ Variant

March 12, 2022
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A growing number of cases of a hybrid COVID-19 variant dubbed “Deltacron” are being identified, including several cases in the United States. Researchers with Helix, a California-based genomic company, found two cases of COVID-19 infection caused by a hybrid of the Delta and Omicron variants, while researchers in France determined 18 people were infected by…

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Aviation Groups Call for Lifting All COVID Restrictions on Air Travel

March 11, 2022
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Two major aviation groups are calling on Europe to lift all COVID-related restrictions, citing a recent study that shows the effects of those measures are limited. The Airports Council International Europe (ACI) and International Air Transport Association (IATA) called for “all remaining COVID restrictions applying to intra-EU and Schengen area travel to be dropped, including…

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Parents Should Ask These Questions Before Giving Their Child a COVID-19 Vaccine: ER Doctor

March 11, 2022
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For parents who are contemplating whether their child should receive a COVID-19 vaccine, Dr. Joseph Fraiman, an emergency medicine physician, says they should ask the following two questions to help them decide. “The first thing that you want to do for harm/benefit analysis [is to ask], is there a mortality benefit for these vaccines for…

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Health Officials End Reporting COVID-19 Deaths

March 11, 2022
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Commentary Data is the foundation of scientific analysis. Without data, researchers are left unable to draw conclusions, which leaves public health experts unable to accurately make recommendations. But that appears to be exactly what the CDC and Health and Human Services (HHS) are doing. The CDC is hiding data and the HHS is no longer…

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Pfizer to Ask US Regulators to Authorize Second Booster Due to Waning Effectiveness: CEO

March 11, 2022
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Pfizer plans to ask U.S. regulators to grant emergency use authorization for a second booster of its COVID-19 vaccine, CEO Albert Bourla said March 11. “Clearly there is a need in an environment of Omicron to boost the immune response,” Bourla said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Pfizer’s vaccine waned over time in protection against both…

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Massachusetts to Reduce ‘Significant Overcount’ of COVID-19 Deaths

March 11, 2022
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The Massachusetts Public Health Department announced Thursday that the state would lower its COVID-19 death count by 3,700 due to new measuring criteria being implemented. The department said in a statement the new death definition is following the guidance (pdf) of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control…

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Forcing Doctors to Assist Suicide ‘A Political Agenda’: Doctor

March 10, 2022
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A group of Christian doctors has sued the state of California over being forced to participate in physician-assisted suicide. One of the doctors said a newly amended law is a political agenda that goes strongly against his faith and will lead to all sorts of problems for patients. “I believe this is a political agenda,…

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Pfizer Begins Study of COVID-19 Pill in High-Risk Children

March 10, 2022
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Pfizer has started a study of its COVID-19 pill in children who have COVID-19 and are designated as high-risk for experiencing severe symptoms. The phase 2/phase 3 study has approximately 140 participants between the ages of 6 and 17. One cohort will receive Pfizer’s pill, known as Paxlovid or nirmatrelvir, twice a day for five…

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Groundbreaking Conference Reveals Health Risks of Seed Oils

March 9, 2022
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Medical doctors, researchers, and other experts spoke on March 3 at the “Future of Fat” virtual summit, the first-ever meeting dedicated exclusively to the harmful effects of oils made from vegetables or seeds, including canola oil, corn oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, and sunflower oil. Such oils have been linked to heart disease, diabetes, weight…

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Dr. Peter McCullough: Findings From Early COVID-19 Vaccine Studies Potentially Alarming

March 8, 2022
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How safe are COVID-19 vaccines? Should everyone be taking them? Are people who get vaccines more likely to get COVID-19? Can genetic material in the vaccines be incorporated into the human genome? These are some of the unknown questions that researchers around the world are currently investigating. With more initial findings and hypotheses now released…

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