Category: Health News

Australian Health Department Denies Unvaccinated Patients Organ Transplant Surgery

Major transplants of hearts, kidneys, or lungs will be restricted to fully vaccinated individuals in the state of Queensland, Australia. Queensland Health said the measures were in accordance with national and international protocols, according to a statement to The Epoch Times. “A recipient is highly immunosuppressed post-transplant, which is why it’s incredibly important for the…


CDC Director: FDA in Discussions to Authorize Omicron-Specific Vaccine

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) director confirmed Sunday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is discussing how to streamline the authorization of an Omicron-specific COVID-19 vaccine. During an interview with ABC News, Director Rochelle Walensky said that vaccine makers Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson have told the agency that “they…


Why You Can’t Find Cheap At-Home COVID-19 Tests

While developing a rapid test that detects the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19 in someone’s saliva, Blink Science, a Florida-based startup, heard something startling: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had received more than 3,000 emergency use authorization applications, and it didn’t have the resources to get through them. “We want to try to avoid the…


Twitter Slaps ‘Unsafe’ Label on Abstract in American Heart Association Journal

On Thursday, Twitter applied a warning label to a post of a study abstract from the American Heart Association website AHA Journals that expresses concern over mRNA vaccines and heart disease. The abstract, published Nov. 8, is titled “Abstract 10712: mRNA COVID Vaccines Dramatically Increase Endothelial Inflammatory Markers and ACS Risk as Measured by the…


WHO: ‘No Evidence’ Booster Vaccines Offer ‘Greater Protection’ to Healthy Populations

A top World Health Organization (WHO) official said there is “no evidence” to suggest that CCP virus booster doses would offer “greater protection” to healthy people. Dr. Mike Ryan, the WHO’s emergency director, questioned the logic of some countries trying to produce more booster doses to vaccinate anyone aged 18 and older. “Right now, there…


WHO: ‘No Evidence’ Boosting Entire Population Offers Greater Protection to Healthy Individuals

A top World Health Organization (WHO) official said there is “no evidence” to suggest that CCP virus booster doses would offer “greater protection” to healthy people. Dr. Mike Ryan, the WHO’s emergency director, questioned the logic of some countries trying to produce more booster doses to vaccinate anyone aged 18 and older. “Right now, there…


Former FDA Official: Courts Right to Find COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Unconstitutional

A former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official says COVID-19 vaccine mandates make little sense and that courts ruled correctly in recently blocking several mandates. Rik Mehta spent time as a deputy division director and a consumer safety officer in the FDA during the Obama administration. He’s also worked for Pfizer, one of the three…


Omicron Appears to Be ‘A Very Transmissible Variant’: WHO Chief Scientist

The chief scientist of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday that the Omicron COVID-19 strain appears to be “very transmissible” based on initial data that has been gathered by the health body. But the official, Soumya Swaminathan, said it’s not possible to know if Omicron would become the dominant strain. Currently, in many countries including the…


Roche Develops New Research Test Kits for Omicron Variant

ZURICH—Roche’s newly acquired subsidiary TIB Molbiol has developed three new test kits to help researchers detect mutations in the new Omicron variant of coronavirus, Roche said on Friday. Governments around the world are urgently scouring databases for recent cases of COVID-19 infections, screening travelers, and decoding the viral genomes of the new variant as they…


WHO: Omicron Could Trigger Global Pandemic Surge; Will Existing Immunity Work Against Omicron?

Why has the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the new, heavily-mutated coronavirus variant Omicron a “variant of concern?” How is it that the next-in-line letters of the Greek alphabet, Nu and Xi, were skipped in the naming of this strain? Observing the different responses around the world to Omicron triggers recollection of the “early days”…