Following through on a campaign promise, the Biden administration on Thursday announced a wide-ranging enforcement strategy aimed at holding industrial polluters accountable for damage done to poor and minority communities. The strategy includes creation of an Office of Environmental Justice within the Justice Department to focus on “fenceline communities” that have been exposed to air … Read more
Anti-vaccine sentiments have been simmering in the U.S. since at least 1998, when the Lancet, a prestigious medical journal, published—and later retracted—a fraudulent paper falsely linking childhood vaccines to autism. They’ve grown even stronger in the past two years, thanks to disinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines. Though the development of the COVID-19 vaccines happened at … Read more
Since last autumn, doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Alabama have been wrestling with a mystery. From October 2021 through February of this year, nine children—the youngest 20 months old and the oldest 5 years and 9 months—were rushed to the hospital with concerning symptoms, all of which turned out to be due to unexplained … Read more
(London) — The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 15 million people were killed either by coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years, more than double the official death toll of 6 million. Most of the fatalities were in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas. In a report … Read more
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine should only be used by people for whom other vaccines are “not accessible or clinically appropriate,” the FDA said. View original article Contributor: Laurie McGinley
That number is more than double the official toll because it includes excess deaths from other causes largely attributable to overburdened health systems. View original article Contributor: Katie Shepherd
Paul Spiegel, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, talks about his time in Poland and other countries neighboring Ukraine acting as emergency coordinator for refugee health. View original article Contributor: Frances Stead Sellers
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine should only be used by people for whom other vaccines are “not accessible or clinically appropriate,” the FDA said. View original article Contributor: Laurie McGinley
That number is more than double the official toll because it includes excess deaths from other causes largely attributable to overburdened health systems. View original article Contributor: Katie Shepherd
Paul Spiegel, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, talks about his time in Poland and other countries neighboring Ukraine acting as emergency coordinator for refugee health. View original article Contributor: Frances Stead Sellers