US probes deaths likely related to COVID vaccines
- 10-Dec-2025
The US health regulator is investigating deaths potentially related to COVID-19 vaccines across multiple age groups as part of a safety review, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services said on Tuesday. The HHS did not immediately clarify what age groups will be included in the FDA probe. The U.S. Food and […]
10 children’s deaths linked to COVID vaccine
- 29-Nov-2025
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary said on Saturday that data showed 10 children had died because of COVID-19 vaccination shots. “There were, it appears, 10 deaths of children from the COVID shots. Now this was data that was accumulated during the Biden administration… we’re going to make that information available that […]
US to offer free COVID tests
- 23-Aug-2024
US health officials said on Friday the government’s free COVID-19 test delivery programs would reopen in late September, in time for the holiday season, and that they had launched an educational campaign targeting those at risk of severe disease. The free testing program would be launched “as families start to move indoors this fall and […]
Four Films That Mirror the COVID Crisis
- 10-Aug-2024
While the world grappled with the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, cinema offered a unique lens through which to process and understand the collective experience. Here are four films that resonate particularly with the complexities of this global crisis: 1. Contagion (2011) Before it became a chillingly accurate prediction, Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion offered a […]
US asks COVID vaccine makers to target KP.2 strain
- 15-Jun-2024
The US health regulator has changed its strain recommendation for the 2024-25 COVID-19 vaccines, as it asked manufacturers to update the new shots to target the KP.2 variant, if feasible, instead of the JN.1 lineage it sought to target earlier. The Food and Drug Administration’s change in recommendation, in an update dated Thursday, comes even […]
Fact Check: Study DOES NOT say COVID vaccines fueled excess deaths
- 14-Jun-2024
A newly released study does not say COVID-19 vaccines may have fuelled excess deaths across the world, contrary to claims on social media. The journal which published the analysis has issued a statement, calling news from “various outlets” about the paper “misreporting” and emphasising that “the research does not support the claim that vaccines are […]
Paxlovid fails as 15-day treatment for long COVID
- 08-Jun-2024
A 15-day course of Pfizer’s COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid did not relieve symptoms of long COVID, according to a study by Stanford University researchers. Currently, there are no proven treatments specifically for long COVID in which a host of symptoms can last for many months after initial coronavirus infection. Scientists and patients had hoped that […]
The FLiRT COVID variants: What are they?
- 24-May-2024
The so-called FLiRT variants of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that cause COVID-19 have been the dominant forms of the virus circulating this year globally, according to the World Health Organization. The moniker FLiRT is an acronym for the locations of the mutations the variants share on the virus’ spike protein. One of them, called KP.2, has become […]
AstraZeneca’s COVID prevention drug cuts risk of disease
- 16-May-2024
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 prevention therapy reduced the risk of infection in patients with weaker immunity in a late-stage trial, meeting its primary goal, the drugmaker said on Thursday. The long-acting antibody therapy called sipavibart showed a “statistically significant reduction” in symptomatic COVID-19 cases among immunocompromised patients, the company said. Immunocompromised people include those with blood cancer, […]
Causes of viruses
- 29-Dec-2023
The globalised world is consistently experiencing breakouts of viruses of various kinds and shapes that affect the people to varying degree. Since many years the world has seen the eruption of Coronavirus, Polio, Ebola and Monkey pox and many other minor forms of such illnesses that cause widespread distress. There are several factors that why […]