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05/15/23

J&J COVID Vaccine No Longer Available in the U.S. + More

The Defender’s Big Pharma Watch delivers the latest headlines related to pharmaceutical companies and their products, including vaccines, drugs, and medical devices and treatments. The views expressed in the below excerpts from other news sources do not necessarily reflect the views of The Defender. Our goal is to provide readers with breaking news that affects human health and the environment.

05/11/23

Maternal RSV Vaccine: Further Analysis Is Urged on Preterm Births + More

05/10/23

AI Drug Discovery Is a $50 Billion Opportunity for Big Pharma + More

05/10/23

Does Vaccine-Induced Myocarditis Put Teens at Risk of Future Heart Attacks?

A new study shows that six months after being diagnosed with vaccine-induced myocarditis, 80% of teens had not recovered.

05/08/23

NIH Restarts Bat Virus Grant Suspended 3 Years Ago by Trump + More

The Defender’s COVID NewsWatch provides a roundup of the latest headlines related to the SARS CoV-2 virus, including its origins and COVID vaccines. The views expressed in the excerpts from other news sources do not necessarily reflect the views of The Defender.

05/08/23

Parents Stand up to Telecom Giants + High Miscarriage Rates in Pfizer Trials: ‘This Week’ With Mary + Polly

In “This Week” with Mary Holland, Children’s Health Defense president on leave, and Polly Tommey, CHD.TV programming manager, Mary and Polly discuss the latest news on COVID-19 vaccines and other issues.

05/05/23

CDC Director Walensky Resigns, Ending Contentious Reign Over COVID Vaccine Policies

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, submitted her resignation to the Biden administration Friday, prompting supporters and critics to speak out about her handling of the pandemic.

05/05/23

‘Horrible Idea’: First Vaccine for Birth Control Now in Clinical Trials

Rather than disrupt the menstrual cycle, as hormonal forms of birth control do, the vaccine uses the immune system to prevent pregnancy by blocking fertilization.

05/05/23

WHO Says COVID No Longer a Global Health Emergency + More

05/04/23

FDA Approves First RSV Vaccine, But Some Experts Say Weak Safety, Efficacy Data Suggest Benefits Don’t Outweigh Risks

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Arexvy, the first vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus, amid concerns among some experts that the vaccines aren’t worth the risks.

05/04/23

COVID Vaccine Protection Against Mild Infection Drops Dramatically After 6 Months: Study + More

05/03/23

FDA Approves First Vaccine for RSV, a Moment Six Decades in the Making + More

05/02/23

U.S. and UK Secretly Agreed to Hide Vaccine Reactions

In the days leading up to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, U.S. and U.K. health officials entered into a “mutual confidentiality agreement” to keep vaccine adverse events under wraps.

05/02/23

Pfizer Earnings and Revenue Top Expectations Despite COVID Vaccine Sales Decline + More

05/01/23

Texas to Investigate COVID Vaccine Makers Over Gain-of-Function Research, False Efficacy Claims

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton today launched an investigation into whether Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson engaged in gain-of-function research and misled the public about doing so, and whether the companies misrepresented the efficacy of their COVID-19 vaccines, in violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.

04/28/23

‘Important Conversations Never Had’: Colleges Quietly End Mandates Without Addressing Harms

Many major universities across the country are quietly dropping their COVID-19 vaccine mandates for students at the end of the spring semester. Critics say in addition to ending mandates, there must be a public conversation about the harms they caused.

04/28/23

‘Tucker Twitter Files’ Reveal How WHO Helped Twitter Censor Tucker Carlson

The “Tucker Twitter files,” released Thursday by journalist Paul D. Thacker, show that in June 2021, Twitter sought to censor Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson after he published an op-ed stating that the COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous for children. Carlson cited information found on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) website — information the WHO “stealth-edited” after Carlson’s commentary.

04/28/23

COVID Vaccines Were Never Safe for Pregnant Women, Pfizer’s Own Data Show

Pfizer elected not to follow up the vast majority of pregnancies in the original human trials, despite high miscarriage rates in the minority they did follow.

04/28/23

U.S. FDA Approves Pfizer’s Next-Generation Pneumococcal Vaccine for Infants as Young as 6 Weeks + More

04/28/23

CDC Eases COVID Vaccination Rule on International Travelers as Expiration Looms + More

The Defender’s Big Brother NewsWatch brings you the latest headlines related to governments’ abuse of power, including attacks on democracy, civil liberties and use of mass surveillance. The views expressed in the excerpts from other news sources do not necessarily reflect the views of The Defender.

04/27/23

Gearing Up for Key Approvals, GSK Projects ‘Shingrix-Like’ Sales for Its RSV Vaccine + More

04/26/23

Fauci Spins Yarn About How Alleged COVID Lab Outbreak ‘Ain’t a Lab Leak’ + More

04/26/23

Pfizer Gave Millions to ‘Independent’ Groups to Push COVID Vaccine Mandates

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in 2021 made numerous grants to medical associations, consumer groups and civil rights organizations for the purpose of creating the appearance of widespread support for COVID-19 vaccine mandates, investigative journalist Lee Fang reported.

04/25/23

Exclusive: She Made ‘The Real Anthony Fauci’ Required Reading for Her Students. Here’s What Happened Next.

In an interview with The Defender, Lynn Comerford, Ph.D., director of women’s studies at California State University, East Bay, detailed how — and why — she fought back against criticism for requiring her students to read “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health,” by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

04/25/23

Exclusive: Public Health Emergency in U.S. Set to Expire May 11 — But EUA Vaccines, Liability Shields Aren’t Going Away Anytime Soon

President Biden earlier this month signed a bill that immediately rescinded the COVID-19 national emergency declared in March 2020, by former President Trump. But a separate Public Health Emergency won’t expire until May 11 — and at least two other COVID-19-related federal emergencies are set to remain in effect past that date.

04/21/23

Youth Suicide Attempts by Poisoning Rose 30% in U.S. During COVID + More

04/20/23

Revealed: NIH Funded Research at Wuhan Lab to Create Mutant Bat Coronaviruses and Study Their Capacity to Infect Humans

Records obtained by Judicial Watch show the National Institutes of Health funded an EcoHealth Alliance grant for sequencing the spike protein from coronaviruses obtained from bats to “creat[e] mutants to identify how significantly each would need to evolve to use ACE2,” which is explained as “the receptor to gain entry to human cells.”

04/20/23

Doctor Died From Rare Reaction to AstraZeneca COVID Jab, U.K. Coroner Rules + More

04/20/23

FDA Withdraws EUA for Original COVID Vaccines, Recommends Boosters Instead in Hope of Increasing Uptake

The updated “bivalent” boosters target the original Wuhan strain, plus the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants. But those subvariants were displaced by the XBB forms of Omicron in 2022, and aren’t present in the population now, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID data tracker.

04/20/23

Did CDC Director Intentionally Lie to Congress? Or Is She Just That Misinformed?

In testimony she provided this week to the House Committee on Appropriations, Dr. Rochelle Walensky defended telling the public that people who received COVID-19 vaccines “do not carry the virus, they do not get sick,” claiming the statement was accurate “at the time.”