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  • Hospital pays job applicant who refused mandated flu shot

    03/12/2024 8:46:07 AM PDT · by george76 · 10 replies
    WND News Center ^ | March 8, 2024 | Bob Unruh
    Corporation cited for illegal religious discrimination.. A hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich., has agreed to pay a settlement to a job applicant who had been offered a position, but then was arbitrarily rejected because he declined to take a flu shot hospital officials demanded. ... The fight involved Trinity Health Grand Rapids, which previously was known as Mercy Health St. Mary's. The resolution includes a consent decree that allows paying of some $50,000 to the worker who was rejected. The case originally was filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and charged the hospital improperly denied a job applicant’s...
  • Children’s hospital to pay parking lot worker $45,000 for refusing to grant him a religious exemption to flu vaccine mandate

    12/29/2023 7:25:19 AM PST · by george76 · 20 replies
    Law&Crime ^ | Dec 27th, 2023 | ELURA NANOSDec 27th, 2023
    One of the nation’ top children’s hospitals must pay $45,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by a maintenance worker who refused to get a flu shot for religious reasons. DeMaurius Jackson worked at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) in Georgia as a maintenance assistant. According to court documents, Jackson’s duties primarily consisted of groundskeeping in outdoor parking lots, which required minimal interaction with the public. Jackson said his work involved no close proximity to patients, visitors, or staff. According to Jackson’s complaint, he converted to Judaism in November of 2016. In 2017 and 2018, Jackson requested and received...
  • Why You Shouldn’t Postpone Your Flu Vaccine

    10/24/2023 8:22:24 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 51 replies
    CNN ^ | Tue October 24, 2023 | Katia Hetter
    While the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that everyone 6 months and older should receive the annual flu vaccine, most people haven’t – at least not yet. Only 22.7% of adults and 20.8% of children have gotten the flu shot this fall, according to CDC data from October 14. Why is it important for everyone eligible to receive the flu shot? How effective is it? Do people who have had the flu before still need a shot? Why is it necessary every year? When is the best time to get it? And what else should people do...
  • Horowitz: Beware: The FDA is not retreating on the COVID jabs. It is reloading.

    04/22/2023 7:40:29 AM PDT · by bitt · 22 replies
    conservativereview.com ^ | 4/21/2023 | daniel horowitz
    Some of you might have jumped with elation on Tuesday after hearing the news that the FDA had de-authorized the original series of COVID shots. What the agency is really doing, however, is reloading so it can enshrine the shots into the permanent immunization schedule and mix them with an ever-growing list of respiratory viral vaccines they are rolling out over the coming months. Now is the time for Congress to step on the gas pedal in opposing these shots, not tabling the issue as if it’s over. The FDA and CDC had a problem. There was no way to...
  • Flu Misinformation and Coronavirus Fears: My Letter to Dr. Sanjay Gupta

    11/27/2022 7:12:55 PM PST · by Qiviut · 37 replies
    Children's Health Defense ^ | May 9, 2020 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
    [CHD note: this article was originally published on April 16, 2020.] Dear Sanjay,Last week, your CNN producer, Matthew Reynard, notified me that CNN is featuring me in a documentary about “vaccine misinformation”. As usual, Mr. Reynard did not point out a single factual assertion by me that was incorrect (I carefully source all of my statements about vaccines to government databases or peer-reviewed publications). CNN uses the term “vaccine misinformation” as a euphemism for any statement that departs from the Government / Pharma orthodoxy that all vaccines are safe, necessary, and effective for all people.I respectfully point out that CNN...
  • Pfizer announces two-in-one vaccine for Covid AND flu — which it hopes will boost sluggish uptake for both shots

    11/04/2022 7:06:36 AM PDT · by dynachrome · 75 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 11-3-22 | LUKE ANDREWS
    Pfizer is testing a new vaccine that inoculates against Covid and flu amid sluggish uptake of both shots. The first patient was given the two-in-one vaccine this week as clinical trials got underway. In total 180 patients will be recruited for the study. Pfizer's new shot targets the Omicron variant and its offshoots as well as four strains of influenza. Rival vaccine-maker Moderna is also testing a vaccine targeting Covid and flu, as well a triple-shot that also immunizes against RSV. None are expected to be ready for this year's flu season, which is already the worst in over a...
  • mRNA Flu Shot Moves Forward As Pfizer Launches Late-Stage Trial

    10/09/2022 12:01:09 PM PDT · by JesusIsLord · 92 replies
    Forbes Online ^ | 9/14/22 | Robert Hart Forbes Staff
    mRNA Flu Shot Moves Forward As Pfizer Launches Late-Stage Trial, Builds On Covid Vaccine Success. Pfizer said it had dosed the first participants in the Phase 3 clinical trial designed to test an mRNA-based influenza vaccine designed using the same technology used in its widely-used Covid-19 vaccine, which it developed with German firm BioNTech. The trial, which is based in the U.S., will assess the safety and effectiveness of the shot and will recruit around 25,000 healthy adults. The shot—known as a quadrivalent vaccine—is designed to protect against four different flu viruses and covers the strains the World Health Organization...
  • This flu season may be awful — but a well-timed flu shot and strategic masking will help protect you

    09/25/2022 1:03:56 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 139 replies
    Business insider ^ | 09/23/2022 | Hilary Brueck
    With flu season approaching in the US, murmurs of a potential "twindemic" brewing are once again starting to surface. "This could very well be the year," Vanderbilt infectious disease expert Dr. William Schaffner told NPR's Up First on Friday, "we have a surge in COVID, and simultaneously an increase in influenza." One big reason that infectious disease experts are especially worried this year is because Australia's 2022 flu season was pretty bad, and what happens during the Southern Hemisphere's winter flu surge often forshadows the US flu season well.
  • Attorney: Entire family given COVID vaccine instead of flu shot, 2 children now suffering heart issues

    12/14/2021 5:41:39 AM PST · by rktman · 21 replies
    wnd.com ^ | 12/13/2021 | Cameron Arcand
    Walgreens is having a rough time on the public relations front, as incidents keep arising where they are allegedly mixing up flu shots with coronavirus vaccines. A family in Evansville, Indiana, said they were all given adult doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine instead of the flu shot on Oct. 4, WFIE-TV reported. The family's two children are 4 and 5 years old, and the Pfizer vaccine has not yet been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for their age group. Attorney Daniel Tuley, who is representing the family, said Walgreens contacted the family after their appointment to admit...
  • US Army launches investigation after three service personnel 'who went to get their flu shot' were accidentally given dose of Pfizer's COVID vaccine instead

    10/27/2021 11:06:17 AM PDT · by conservative98 · 4 replies
    Dailymail.Com ^ | 27 Oct 2021 | Gina Martinez
    US Army bosses are investigating after three service personnel went to get a flu shot on base - only to be given a dose of Pfizer's COVID vaccine instead.
  • VIDEO Emerges Of Fauci And HHS Officials Plotting For ‘A New Avian Flu Virus’ To Enforce Universal Flu Vaccination

    10/06/2021 8:12:44 AM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 52 replies
    GP ^ | 10/06/21 | Jim Hoft
    Alex Jones of Infowars made a special broadcast on Monday night regarding an explosive video of Fauci with HHS officials and other health experts discussing how to enforce Universal Flu Vaccination in a summit organized by Milken Institute in Washington, DC last October 2019.Alex Jones highlighted three clips from the hour-long video of the summit from C-SPAN which proved the COVID-19 pandemic was planned and the Big Pharma worked with the UN and other corrupt government officials to develop and release the COVID-19 virus ahead of ‘Great Reset’.The first clip featured Michael Specter, a journalist from The New Yorker...
  • Former FDA chief predicts flu season will be a ‘whopper’

    09/22/2021 9:28:00 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 66 replies
    NY Post ^ | 09/22/2021 | Yaron Steinbuch
    Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb warned Wednesday that “we’re in for a whopper” of a flu season due to a lack of immunity in the US population. Gottlieb, who helmed the FDA under President Donald Trump and serves on Pfizer’s board of directors, made the chilling prediction during an interview on CNBC about workplace safety amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. “We haven’t seen a flu season last year — we’re in for a whopper because we haven’t put immunity into the population in at least one and maybe now two years. When the flu does come...
  • CDC says people can get COVID booster, flu shot at the same time

    08/31/2021 6:31:41 AM PDT · by MNDude · 77 replies
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says people can get a COVID-19 vaccine—the first, second or third dose—and a flu shot at the same time. Or, they can get the COVID-19 shot and a combination of any other vaccine such as measles, pneumonia, shingles and the like during the same visit to a medical office or pharmacy. “You no longer need to wait 14 days between vaccinations,” its website states. “Experience with other vaccines has shown that the way our bodies develop protection, known as an immune response, after getting vaccinated and possible side effects of vaccines are generally...
  • Flu shot found to protect against severe effects of COVID-19

    08/04/2021 6:40:53 PM PDT · by ConservativeMind · 42 replies
    In a newly published study, scientists have shown that the flu vaccine may provide vital protection against COVID-19. This was the largest study…which strongly suggested that the annual flu shot reduces the risks of stroke, sepsis, and DVT in patients with COVID-19. Patients with COVID-19 who had been vaccinated against the flu were also significantly less likely to visit the emergency department and be admitted to the intensive care unit. Members of the first study group had received the flu vaccine two weeks and six months prior to being diagnosed with COVID-19. Those in the second group also had a...
  • Your flu shot may protect against severe COVID

    07/19/2021 9:33:31 AM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 32 replies
    Miami Herald ^ | July 2021 | Katie Camero
    Getting a flu shot may come with an added benefit: protection against severe coronavirus infection. That’s the conclusion researchers made from a review of nearly 75 million COVID-19 patient records from around the globe, which found those who received a flu vaccine up to six months before getting infected were less likely to have a stroke, experience sepsis or develop blood clots caused by the disease. Coronavirus patients vaccinated against influenza were also less likely to visit the emergency department and be admitted to the intensive care unit, according to new research presented online during the European Congress of Clinical...
  • Moderna begins first human trials for flu shot based on new mRNA technology used to make the company's COVID-19 vaccine

    07/08/2021 10:08:11 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 16 replies
    DAILYMAIL.COM ^ | 8 July 2021 | MANSUR SHAHEEN FOR
    Moderna Inc announced on Wednesday that it has had officially begun trials of a flu shot with the new technology that was used to make its coronavirus vaccine. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company's COVID-19 shot uses part of the virus's genetic code called messenger RNA, or mRNA, to get the body to recognize the pathogen and attack if a person becomes infected. Now, Moderna says it has doses the first participants in a clinical trial looking at an influenza vaccine using mRNA technology. Before the pandemic, mRNA technology was known about but was widely unexplored and unused by scientists. Now, many...
  • Pfizer scientist says mRNA technology used for Covid vaccines could create 'more potent' seasonal flu shots

    05/11/2021 2:51:43 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 37 replies
    CNBC ^ | May 2021 | Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
    The mRNA technology used to develop the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine could also help create "more potent" seasonal flu shots, Kathrin Jansen, head of Pfizer's vaccine research and development, told CNBC.
  • Flu Shot May Shield You From Severe COVID

    04/12/2021 10:47:58 AM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 45 replies
    Web MD ^ | Nov 2020 | Alan Mozes
    The coronavirus and the flu are two entirely different viruses. But a new study suggests those who get a flu vaccine face a considerably lower risk for being hospitalized if and when they get COVID-19. And the flu vaccine also appears to significantly reduce a COVID-19 patient's risk for ending up in an intensive care unit (ICU), researchers say. "COVID patients who had not received a flu vaccine within the last year had 2.4 times greater odds of being hospitalized and 3.3 times greater chance of being transferred to the ICU," said Yang, a third-year resident in family medicine in...
  • Singapore Temporarily Halts Use of Two Flu Vaccines After South Korea Deaths

    10/29/2020 5:42:03 AM PDT · by george76 · 26 replies
    Reuters ^ | Oct. 25, 2020 | Aradhana Aravindan
    Singapore has temporarily halted the use of two influenza vaccines as a precaution after some people who received them in South Korea died, becoming among the first countries to publicly announce a halt of the vaccines' usage. South Korea reported that 48 have died as of Saturday after getting flu shots, but said it would carry on with the state-run vaccination programme as they found no direct link between the deaths and the shots. No deaths associated with influenza vaccination have been reported in Singapore to date, but the decision to halt the use of SKYCellflu Quadrivalent and VaxigripTetra was...
  • Flu Vaccine Fail: CDC Stats Say Effectiveness as Low as 10%! Why Are They Pushing This Garbage?

    10/16/2020 4:29:43 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 47 replies
    Red State ^ | 10/16/2020 | Michael Thau
    If you’re thinking about getting a flu shot this year, you might want to do some rethinkingIf it’s too late and you’ve already got one or have been doing so regularly for years, you might want to take a deep breath. The information you’re about to receive may cause outrage.Most people who get a flu vaccine probably assume that it’s going to… you know… prevent them from getting the flu. I mean, why would you go through the trouble and incur the risk of a serious adverse reaction that attends taking any vaccine if you didn’t think it would be...