Is the US’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System broken?

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BMJ 2023; 383 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/ bmj.p2582 2023):  BMJ 2023;383:p2582, Jennifer Block, British Medical Journal A BMJ investigation has raised concerns that the VAERS system isn’t operating as intended and that signals are being missed. Jennifer Block reports Three weeks after receiving a second dose of a covid vaccine, Robert Sullivan collapsed at home on his treadmill. An anaesthesiologist in Maryland, USA, he was […]

What is ‘long vax’? Symptoms linked to COVID-19 shot baffle docs

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By Marc Lallanilla, Published July 2023 You’ve heard of “long COVID,” the cases of people who can’t shake the lingering symptoms of COVID-19. Now comes “long vax” — a rare, but baffling set of symptoms that follow a small number of people for months after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. “You see one or two patients and you […]

How Covid Affected Our Dreams

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Elizaveta Solomonova Ph.D., Mind States, Posted June 18, 2022 What we dreamt about during Covid, and what it could tell us. KEY POINTS Studies show that both our waking and dreaming lives were influenced by the pandemic. While we were preoccupied with the pandemic itself and the profound changes in our habits and lifestyles, our dreams […]

The Declaration That Wasn’t Supposed To Happen

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NOV 2023 – Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, Opinion of the Authors. Read Safety Science, VAERS and Daily COVID research publications to educate yourselves and make your own determinations. In October 2020, in the midst of a genuine crisis, three scientists made a very short statement of highly public health wisdom, a […]

Sleep Guidelines During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Updated October 26, 2023, Eric Suni National Cancer Institute Since the World Health Organization’s declaration of a global pandemic in March 2020, COVID-19 has pushed the world into uncharted waters. More than 430 million people worldwide have been infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which has contributed to over 5.9 million deaths. The WHO coronavirus (COVID-19) dashboard […]

SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank

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Gwenaëlle Douaud, Soojin Lee, Fidel Alfaro-Almagro, Christoph Arthofer, Chaoyue Wang, et. al. Nature volume 604, pages697–707 (2022)Cite this article Abstract There is strong evidence of brain-related abnormalities in COVID-191,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13. However, it remains unknown whether the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection can be detected in milder cases, and whether this can reveal possible mechanisms contributing to brain pathology. Here we investigated brain changes in 785 […]

Long Covid is hard — here are five tips to help

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By Andrea Kane, CNN, November 9, 2023 (CNN) — Brain fog, fatigue, heart palpitations, post-exertional malaise and dizziness are a handful of the symptoms associated people with long Covid in adults. They are among the 12 symptoms identified as part of the National Institute of Health’s RECOVER initiative that can be reliably used to classify someone as having long […]

Certain COVID-19 Vaccines Linked To Elevated Risk Of Guillain-Barré Syndrome

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NOV 2023 – Authored by Ellen Wan via The Epoch Times  As the vaccination rate continues to rise, an increasing number of side effects are being reported. Research indicates that COVID-19 viral vector-based vaccines increase the risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) by three to four times compared to mRNA-based vaccines. The Link Between Vaccines and Guillain-Barré Syndrome […]

Association of SARS-CoV-2 Infection during Early Weeks of Gestation with Situs Inversus

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TO THE EDITOR: Nov 2023 update Situs inversus, including situs inversus totalis (with dextrocardia) and partial situs inversus (with levocardia), is a rare congenital condition in which visceral organization is inverted as compared with normal organ development. We noted a striking increase in the number of cases of fetal situs inversus that were diagnosed by […]

SARS-CoV-2 infection and persistence in the human body and brain at autopsy

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Sydney R. Stein, Sabrina C. Ramelli, Alison Grazioli, Joon-Yong Chung, Manmeet Singh, Claude Kwe Yinda, Clayton W. Winkler, Junfeng Sun, James M. Dickey, Kris Ylaya, Sung Hee Ko, et. al. Nature volume 612, pages758–763 (2022)Cite this article Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is known to cause multi-organ dysfunction1,2,3 during acute infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), with some patients experiencing prolonged symptoms, termed post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 […]