Frank Bergman – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is preparing to authorize the latest COVID-19 booster shots, developed for the Omicron variant, without first running trials on humans.
Instead, the vaccines will rely on testing on mice and will be approved for public use months before human trials are complete.
The new Omicron shots will be approved by the FDA this week, the Wall Street Journal reported. Continue reading
Sean Adl-Tabatabai – In response to an imminent Trump re-election, Democrats are now scrambling to distance themselves from the lockdown policies they previously enthusiastically supported.
According to a new Politico report, Democrats are hesitant to shut things down again in the wake of Omicron.
“From New York to California, Democratic mayors and governors are fighting to keep schools and businesses open with an urgency they haven’t flexed before in the pandemic,” the report states. Continue reading
Joseph Curl – Feeling sweaty at night? You might have Omicron.
New reports say night sweats — which the Mayo Clinic defines as “repeated episodes of extreme perspiration that may soak your nightclothes or bedding” — are a “new strange symptom” of the variant, according to Fortune.
“Commonly associated with other conditions like the flu, anxiety, or even cancer, night sweats were less commonly associated with COVID before the Omicron variant began to rapidly spread worldwide,” the magazine’s website reported on Tuesday. Continue reading