Day: February 12, 2022
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South African GP Who Raised Alarm on Omicron Says She was Pressured by Governments Not to Call the Variant “Mild”
In this February 10, 2022 article for News.Com.Au, Frank Chung reports on the interview between Germany’s Die Welt newspaper and Dr. Angelique Coetzee, chair of the South Africa Medical Association (SAMA) reveals that European governments had asked her to portray the new strains to be as serious as previous COVID variants. She said, “I was…
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Spain’s eminent pharmacovigilance expert comments on country’s COVID vaccine policy: Mass vaccination was a global experiment
The following is a transcript of the testimony given by Dr. Joan-Ramón Laporte Roselló, one of Spain’s top experts in pharmacovigilance, to the Spanish Congress last February 7, 2022. Dr. Roselló worked not only with the World Health Organization (WHO), but also with the European Medicines Agency (EMA). He is also part of the scientific…
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Pfizer drops India vaccine application after regulator seeks local trial
The following is an article published by Reuters last February 5, 2021. Here, Indian correspondent Krishna N. Das reports that Pfizer had withdrawn its application for emergency use authorization after India’s drug regulator demanded a local safety and immunogenicity study. According to the report, “The drug regulator said on its website its experts did not…
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Group of Senior Doctors and Scientists Call on JCVI to Pause Roll out of COVID Vaccines to Children 5 to 11 years
The following is a letter written by the Children’s Covid Vaccine Advisory Group (CCVAG) addressed to the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). According to the CCVAG, the JCVI should pause the rollout of vaccines to younger populations as the issue of increasing all-cause mortality in males aged 15-19 since the Pfizer vaccines were…
