The Yellow Card scheme tracking potential vaccine injuries has flagged a combined 191,832 individual adverse events, or side effects, related to COVID vaccines.
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Biden’s White House Is ‘Working Directly’ With Social Media To Censor Anti-Vaxxers
A senior administration official said that the White House has been reaching out to social media companies including Facebook and Twitter to root out COVID misinformation and get their help to stop it from going viral.
Anti-vaxxer Robert F Kennedy, 67, is BANNED from Instagram for ‘repeatedly sharing false claims about COVID-19’ – including theory that Bill Gates is pursuing Marxist plot to destroy US sovereignty
Robert F Kennedy Jr has been banned from Instagram for what the company said was repeatedly sharing misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
A brief look at the seven vaccines Canada has pre-ordered
Between July 24 and Oct. 22, Canada signed deals to pre-order seven COVID-19 vaccines. Here’s a brief look at what we know about those vaccines, listed by manufacturer.
At least 273 deaths, 9,845 adverse events in the US after COVID vaccination so far: CDC data
The deaths, reported by the vaccine injury tracking system for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, mostly occurred within 48 hours of the vaccine being administered.
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Bill Gates: Next Pandemic May Be 10 Times Worse Than Corona
The German newspaper quoted the founder of “Microsoft” as saying that has been working for several years actively to improve health care around the world.
He affirmed that he has become an enemy in the eyes of supporters of conspiracy theories because of his active efforts in support of vaccination campaigns against the coronavirus.
COMMENTARY: Ottawa’s management of COVID-19 vaccine file leaves much to be desired
Canadians are understandably feeling anxious and impatient when it comes to the question of vaccine availability.
After all, Canada is falling behind numerous other countries when it comes to overall percentage of the population that’s been vaccinated, we’ve seen disruptions in the delivery of the two vaccines that have been approved for use here, and we’re hearing all sorts of protectionist rumblings that could further disrupt — or block — vaccine shipments.
Norwegian Medicines Agency links 13 deaths to vaccine side effects. Those who died were frail and old
“The reports might indicate that common side effects from mRNA vaccines, such as fever and nausea, may have led to deaths in some frail patients,” chief physician Sigurd Hortemo in the Norwegian Medicines Agency noted.
Denmark Introducing COVID ‘Vaccine Passport’
Denmark is the latest country to announce that it is rolling out a ‘Covid passport’, to allow those who have taken the vaccine to engage in society without any restrictions.
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The CDC’s Rules Let Teachers, Lawyers, Media Jump to the Front of the COVID Vaccine Line
Education sector “support staff members,” corporate tax lawyers, and magazine fashion editors will all jump to the front of the coronavirus vaccination line ahead of the general population, under recommendations issued in late December by the federal government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
MANDATORY: U.S. employers can require employees to get COVID-19 vaccine, new guidelines say
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) guidelines issued earlier this week say that employers can now bar employees from the workplace if they do not get the COVID-19 vaccine.
What Canadians can expect now that Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has been approved
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Dec. 7 that up to 249,000 doses of the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will be ready before the end of the year following approval from Health Canada. That means about 125,000 people will be vaccinated. However, over the first few months during the first stage of the rollout, officials estimate that about three million Canadians could be inoculated.
The vaccines will be distributed to jurisdictions on a per-capita basis, so each province will receive vaccine doses in numbers proportionate to their share of the population.
Quebec will be first.
Canada the biggest hoarder of COVID-19 vaccine pre-orders in First World, NGOs say
Dozens of poor nations could miss getting the COVID-19 vaccine next year because rich countries have hoarded far more than they need, the People’s Vaccine Alliance says.
Health Canada approves Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
The department announced the approval Wednesday. Public health and government officials will hold a briefing to discuss details of the vaccine rollout plan at 1 p.m. ET in Ottawa.
Alert From UK: Regulators Now Preventing People With “Significant History Of Allergic Reactions” From Taking Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine
The first rollout of the first clinically approved COVID-19 vaccine just hit its first speedbump. British health regulators issued a warning today after two health-care workers developed a serious allergic reaction to the Pfizer vaccine. They are now checking histories on patients before administering the vaccine, and for the moment will not vaccinate those with a “significant history” of allergic reactions.