Tag Archives: COVID-19
COVID Vaccination During the First Timester of Prgenancy
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 24th June 2025A study of pregnant women in Israel who received the COVID-19 vaccination during the first trimester of pregnancy has been released in a preprint PDF – ie, it hasn’t been through peer review. The vaccine used in Israel was almost entirely the Pfizer BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine. Pregnant women were excluded from the pivotal randomized clinical…
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Report of Florida Grand Jury Vaccine Investigation
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 12th January 2025The Florida Grand Jury appointed by Gov. DeSantis to investigate COVID-19 vaccines has issued its report. The full document can be downloaded below. It is 140 pages. I have excerpted key parts of it to highlight its findings. The report is remarkably thorough and well-written. It reads as though composed by someone with a highly…
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Why the Covid Epidemic Ended and How Best to Combat the Next One
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 26th December 2024The late and unlamented epidemic was an exercise in misapprehension. My subject is to explain its brief course as a preparative against the next respiratory virus that achieves epidemic proportions. COVID-19 lasted about three years, just as did the flu pandemic of a century earlier. However, it was far less lethal than its predecessor, killing…
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The Ghost of COVID
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 10th November 2024Niall Ferguson is a brilliant historian and commentator on current events. The following fragment of a sentence is from a recent article on the election. […the Covid vaccines that saved a significant number of older voters’ lives in 2021.] Ferguson’s topic is not the COVID vaccine, it’s politics. But he obviously thinks the vaccines were…
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Stroke Risk After COVID-19 Vaccination Among Older Adults
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 22nd March 2024Stroke Risk After COVID-19 Bivalent Vaccination Among US Older Adults is a study just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It examined the risk of stroke in a time period immediately after administration of either brand of a COVID-19 bivalent vaccine compared with a later time period among adults aged 65 years…
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Novak Djokovic For CDC Director
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 17th September 2023As anyone semi-sentient knows the great Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic has won more Grand Slam tennis tournaments than any male player in history. He might have won two more had he not been denied entry to Australia and the US last year because he refused to take the COVID vaccine and thus was unable…
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COVID-19 Misinformation From Doctors
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 17th August 2023Communication of COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media by Physicians in the US is a study published by the JAMA Open Network. The authors looked at the social media posts of 52 physicians practicing in 28 different specialties. The small sample size is enough to stop reading. They defined COVID-19 misinformation as assertions unsupported by or…
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The NAS Report on COVID-19
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 18th July 2023The National Association of Scholars has released a report Shifting Sands: The Confounded Errors of Public Health Policy Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the third report of a series which examines the interface of science and government. The realization that science, medicine, the government, and both the professional and lay media performed badly during the…
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The CDC, COVID, and Masks – Wither Science?
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 15th July 2023The CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) is the agency’s primary vehicle for “scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations.” Despite it’s standing as a reliable guide to the science of the agency’s purview it is subject only to internal review. It was employed by the…
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Possible Ill Effects of Repeated mRNA Vaccination for SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 2nd June 2023A paper in Vaccines: IgG4 Antibodies Induced by Repeated Vaccination May Generate Immune Tolerance to the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein examines the possibility that repeated doses of the mRNA vaccine administered to prevent COVID 19 infection may cause autoimmune disease in susceptible patients. The abstract is below. I have underlined a key part of it. Less…
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