4 h. ago US pediatricians contradict US government for first time in 30 years over Covid vaccine advice for babies

For the first time in 30 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics is substantially diverging from US government vaccine recommendations

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8 h. ago Father of CDC shooter says son believed Covid vaccine had sickened him

Ken White said his son Patrick, who killed a police officer at CDC HQ in Atlanta, had untreated mental illnessThe father of the man who opened fire outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta earlier in August has said that his son was grappling with untreated mental health issues when misinformation convinced him that the Covid-19 vaccine was lethally sickening him.“I know my son wanted to make this about ‘the jab’, and that was his latest cause, but this is more about mental health than anything,” Ken White said in a new interview with Atlanta News First. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Republicans want to rig the midterm elections. Will they succeed? | Moira Donegan

The Republican party has already shown that its commitment to democratic elections is paper thinIf one mark of an autocratic regime is the meaningfulness of elections, you can make an argument that the United States has been backsliding away from a properly democratic form of government for a long time. In 2013’s Shelby county decision, the US supreme court gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act, clearing the way for states to impose a slew of restrictions on the franchise that were previously banned as part of an effort to prevent the re-establishment of Jim Crow; voting quickly became more burdensome and onerous in many Republican-controlled states.Three years before, in Citizens United, the same court declared that corporate money counted as political speech, thereby opening the floodgates on money in politics in ways that allowed the rich to distort public discourses ahead of elections. Donald Trump memorably tried to interfere with the 2020 census so that it would count as few of th...

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43 h. ago SNP Government 'failing stroke patients' as average treatment waiting time over two hours

Figures obtained by Scottish Labour revealed that patients are now waiting nearly ten minutes longer for blood clots to be removed than they were in 2018.

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6 d. ago Suspect who fired 180 shots at CDC and motivated by ‘vaccine misinformation’ is pictured

Gunman Patrick Joseph White expressed discontent with the COVID-19 vaccinations in writings he made before the shooting, authorities said.

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6 d. ago CDC shooting marks latest in a string of hostility directed at health workers. Many aren't surprised

Gunfire aimed at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by a man authorities say was angry over COVID-19 vaccines is the latest in a string of violence and harassment directed at health care workers amid hostility lingering from the pandemic

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7 d. ago How to keep a baby cool in a heatwave and other important questions answered

Heatwave health questions answered

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8 d. ago RFK Jr has slashed vaccine research. You need to know how perilous that is for the world | Devi Sridhar

The avian flu virus is now just one mutation away from easier transmission among humans. Donald Trump’s health chief is a grave risk to world healthProf Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of EdinburghYou’d be hard-pressed to find many public health experts who have positive things to say about Donald Trump’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States. Alongside his numerous policy failures, one Cornell University study found that he was the biggest source of Covid-19 misinformation. But if there’s one redeeming feature to Trump’s pandemic record, it has to be his leadership on Operation Warp Speed – a massive, government-funded initiative that played a pivotal role in fast-tracking Covid-19 vaccines.“Operation Warp Speed stands as one of the most remarkable scientific and humanitarian achievements of the past half-century,” the former US surgeon general Jerome Adams said. It directed billions of dollars into vaccine development and manufactur...

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9 d. ago CDC union says vaccine misinformation put staff at risk after Atlanta shooting

Deadly violence not random as staff have endured ‘months of mistreatment, neglect and vilification’, says unionA union representing US Centers for Disease Control employees has demanded that the federal government condemn vaccine misinformation after a man who evidently blamed the Covid-19 vaccination for making him depressed and suicidal aimed gunfire Friday at the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta.The 30-year-old shooting suspect, who killed a police officer and died during the attack, had also tried to get into the CDC’s headquarters – but he was stopped by guards before driving to a pharmacy across the street and opening fire, a law enforcement official told the Associated Press on Saturday. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Emory shooting confirmed as ‘a targeted attack on CDC related to Covid’ as new details emerge on gunman’s mental state: Latest

Patrick Joseph White’s father said his son was fixated on the Covid-19 vaccine

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9 d. ago CDC shooter blamed COVID vaccine for depression; union demands statement against misinformation

A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal has been identified as the shooter who opened fire late Friday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, killing a police officer

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1 week ago Emory University shooting updates: Gunman identified after father

Police are reportedly working on the theory that the CDC was the suspect’s target, who ‘blamed his illness on the Covid-19 vaccine,’ according to an unconfirmed report

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1 week ago Pfizer Covid vaccine for young children may not be renewed by FDA

Email obtained by Guardian says Pfizer was told approval may not be granted, meaning Moderna may have to fill gapPfizer’s Covid vaccine for young children may not be renewed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this fall, prompting Moderna to fill possible gaps in supply, according to an email obtained by the Guardian.The move would pull the only remaining Covid vaccine for all children under five from the market. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Emory University shooting updates: Cop killed by CDC gunman identified as father with third child on the way

Police are reportedly working on the theory that the CDC was the suspect’s target, who ‘blamed his illness on the Covid-19 vaccine,’ according to an unconfirmed report

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1 week ago Emory University shooting updates: Suspect dead and cop killed, police reuniting 92 stranded children after CDC attack

Police are reportedly working on the theory that the CDC was the suspect’s target, who ‘blamed his illness on the Covid-19 vaccine,’ according to an unconfirmed report

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1 week ago At least two dead in shooting at CDC HQ in Atlanta as cops say suspect thought Covid vaccine had made him sick

College students at Emory in Atlanta, Georgia, were told to run, hide, or fight following the active shooter alert.

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1 week ago Emory University shooting updates: Suspect dead and cop reported killed as possible ‘Covid vaccine’ motive emerges

Police are reportedly working on the theory that the CDC was the suspect’s target, who ‘blamed his illness on the Covid-19 vaccine,’ according to an unconfirmed report

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1 week ago The world’s in flames. But these are the ways I’ve found hope this summer amid the gloom | Jonathan Freedland

Tentatively, I want to make a moral case for escapism – for allowing oneself a break from world eventsIf you’ve locked your phone in a drawer, hidden the newspaper down the sofa or unplugged the radio, I wouldn’t blame you. Just glimpsing or half-hearing the headlines can be enough to plunge you into a sinkhole of gloom.If it’s not the Trump administration ending $500m worth of funding for the very vaccine programmes that helped rescue billions from the menace of Covid – as part of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s determined effort to rollback mass immunisation, one of the greatest gifts science has given humankind – it’s the ongoing agony of Gaza, only set to increase after Benjamin Netanyahu responded to a global outcry over his use of starvation as a weapon not by moving to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into the strip, as so desperately needed, but rather to escalate the war yet further, his security cabinet agreeing early Friday morning to take over Gaza City.Jonathan Freedland is ...

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1 week ago Even Trump’s former Surgeon General has hit out at RFK Jr’s plans to gut vaccine research: ‘Going to cost lives’

Warning comes after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced cuts of nearly $500m in funding for mRNA vaccine projects, the technology that powered two major Covid vaccines

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1 week ago Trump once hailed mRNA vaccines as a 'medical miracle.' Now RFK Jr. is halting advancement

President Donald Trump once hailed mRNA vaccines as a "miracle" for combating COVID-19

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