In the days leading up to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 shot, an agreement was made to keep serious adverse reactions under wraps. U.S. and U.K. health officials discussed “anaphylactoid reactions” due to COVID shots and emphasized their “mutual confidentiality agreement” regarding the topic.1 The news was revealed by Judicial… Read More »
An investment banker with a young family, he travelled every week, often to multiple cities within the course of several days. He might call into one of our monthly meetings from Dallas, but he had been in Tokyo the day before and was on his way to Brussels the next. Before the pandemic, his schedule… Read More »
South Korea has begun transporting the first vaccine doses to roll off a production line in the southern city of Andong, where local pharmaceutical company SK Bioscience is producing the AstraZeneca vaccine. The country will kick off its mass immunisation campaign on Friday by administering the Astra-Zeneca-Oxford vaccines to residents and employees at long-term care… Read More »
Two-year-old Kena didn’t notice that her hearing aids were attracting attention during storytime at the library—but her mom did. “I can’t let other kids define who Kena is,” her mom, Krystyna, confided to Kena’s grandmother that evening. “I want her to be fierce.” The children’s book “Super Kena: A GirlMade Fierce with Hearing Aids” The conversation resonated… Read More »