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9 stories tagged "covid-vaccines"

Investigations

From 'Vaccine Hesitancy' to 'Trust': Five Years of NIH Insiders Grading Vaccine-Injury Research by Public Reaction

In 2021 Francis Collins warned that a paper on nerve symptoms after COVID vaccination would feed 'vaccine hesitancy.' This month the NIH hospital board's chair warned the new clinic's findings would be dismissed either way. Of decided federal COVID countermeasure claims, 98.4 percent were denied.

Investigations

The Study Being Used to Close the Vaccine-Death Question Can't Rule Out Zero Excess Deaths in New Zealand

New Zealand's headline pandemic death study was co-authored by one of the country's most visible COVID modellers, and its four-year estimate runs from 1,134 fewer deaths than expected to 2,927 more. The modellers are calling it settled.

Investigations

Brain on Fire: Ottawa's Vaccine-Injury Program Spent More on Its Contractor Than on the Injured

Fifty injured Canadians testified in Ottawa over four days, and Health Canada did not show. The compensation program has spent more on its contractor's overhead than on the people it was built to pay.

Infectious Disease

Your Antibodies Are Still Fighting the 2020 Virus

For two years the message was that another ancestral booster would keep pace with the virus. The immunology says the opposite can happen: repeated shots against the 2020 strain can lock your antibodies onto a version of SARS-CoV-2 that stopped circulating, and in 2023 the WHO named immune imprinting

Investigations

Two Vaccine Injury Programs, One Country: COVID Claims Landed in the One That Almost Never Pays

The federal fund for routine vaccine injuries has paid $5.2 billion to nearly 10,000 people. The program COVID shots were routed into has compensated 34 claims, and RFK Jr. wants to change the math.

Infectious Disease

A Blocked Vaccine Study, and the Statistical Method Its Own Lead Author Warned About

A CDC vaccine-effectiveness study pulled from the agency's own journal landed in JAMA, and the press called it censorship. The method it used has a documented blind spot its own lead author once published on.

Investigations

A Top Cancer Scientist, a Deleted Study, and the Question Washington Won't Fund

A June 2026 Senate subcommittee hearing centered on a Brown University cancer researcher's review of 333 post-vaccination cancer case reports, and on the retractions, censorship, and cyberattack that met it.

Investigations

A Senate Subcommittee Just Put the COVID Shot Cancer Question on the Record

A Senate Homeland Security subcommittee took testimony on whether mRNA COVID shots can plausibly cause cancer, and on the parallel campaign to keep that question out of the journals. Dr. John Campbell walked his audience through it.

Investigations

A Senate hearing finally put the cancer question on the record. The journal notice had been up for months.

Sen. Ron Johnson's June 3 subcommittee hearing on plausible mechanisms linking mRNA injections to cancer, the South Korean cohort behind it, and the editorial notice Springer had posted on the paper months earlier.