FDA-Led Peer-Reviewed Study by High School Students Uncovers Alarming DNA Contamination in Pfizer’s mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine at FDA’s Own Lab


by Jim Hᴏft Jan. 5, 2025 TGP A group of high school students from Centreville High School in Virginia, in collaboration with the FDA, has uncovered alarming DNA contamination in both Pfizer’s experimental and commercial mRNA COVID-19 shots. Their peer-reviewed study, published in the Journal of High School Science on December 29th, has sparked renewed debate over vaccine manufacturing standards and […]

Long-Term Taste and Smell Outcomes After COVID-19


Ryan Sharetts, BS1,2; Shima T. Moein, MD, PhD1,2; et. al. JAMA Netw Open. 2024;7(4):e247818. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.7818 Key Points Question  What is the association of COVID-19 with long-term outcomes in taste and smell function as measured by state-of-the-art psychophysical tests? Findings  In this cross-sectional study of 340 individuals with and 434 individuals without prior COVID-19, taste function did not differ between individuals who had contracted COVID-19 […]

5 things we know and still don’t know about COVID, 5 years after it appeared


By  LAURAN NEERGAARD, and MIKE STOBBE Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world. The germ didn’t have a name, nor did the illness it would cause. It wound up setting off a pandemic that exposed deep inequities in the global health system and reshaped […]

COVID-19 ‘long-haulers’ face increased risk of death and many other health problems


Tristan Horrom, VA Research Communications A year into the pandemic, most people are familiar with the immediate symptoms of COVID-19 infection, which include breathing problems and fever. But reports of COVID-19 “long-haulers” suggest that some people can have persistent, long-lasting health problems caused by the virus. In the largest post-acute COVID-19 study to date, VA […]

Cutaneous vasculitis and vasculopathy in the era of COVID-19 pandemic


Carlo Alberto Maronese1,2Enrico Zelin3Gianluca Avallone4, et. al. Cutaneous vasculitides encompass a heterogeneous group of clinicopathological entities, which may occur as single-organ vasculitis of the skin or present as skin-limited variant of systemic vasculitis (i.e., skin-limited ANCA-associated vasculitis), and are triggered by various factors, including infections, drugs and vaccines. The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged us with […]

Vascular Inflammation as a Therapeutic Target in COVID-19 “Long Haulers”: HIITing the Spot?


Regitse Højgaard Christensen1,2*Ronan M. G. Berg1,3,4,5 Background In the wake of the first wave of the ongoing global pandemic, it has become imminently clear that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has brought with it a whole new clinical syndrome: “long COVID” (1, 2). Hence, after recovery from the acute viral infection, a remarkably large proportion of patients, […]

Lingering COVID virus in tongue linked to long-term taste loss


Loss of taste, one of the most common and frustrating symptoms of COVID-19 infection, appears to be associated with persistent damage to taste buds caused by low amounts of the virus that can linger for months or even more than a year. Findings from the NIA study were published in NEJM Evidence. COVID-related loss of smell […]

Potential Effects of Coronaviruses on the Liver: An Update


Xinyi Wang1,2Jianyong Lei1,2*Zhihui Li, et. al.,Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery Center, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China The coronaviruses that cause notable diseases, namely, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), middle east respiratory syndrome (MERS) and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), exhibit remarkable similarities in genomic components and pathogenetic mechanisms. Although coronaviruses have widely been studied […]

COVID-19 ‘long-haulers’ face increased risk of death and many other health problems


By Tristan Horrom, VA Research Communications, Journal Nature After three year into the pandemic, most people are familiar with the immediate symptoms of COVID-19 infection, which include breathing problems and fever. But reports of COVID-19 “long-haulers” suggest that some people can have persistent, long-lasting health problems caused by the virus. In the largest post-acute COVID-19 […]

Former State Department Official David Asher: Americans “Will Soon Learn” COVID Origins Truth


by Tyler Durden Revelations that senior US intelligence officials in the early days of the virus pandemic suppressed research indicating a Chinese lab leak as the origin of Covid-19 surfaced in a new Wall Street Journal report titled “Behind Closed Doors: The Spy-World Scientists Who Argued Covid Was a Lab Leak” late this week.  The investigation by WSJ’s Michael Gordon and Warren Strobel shows the disagreements within the […]