Posted September 30, 2019
Welcome to NVIC’s webpage on vaccine laws. Here you will be able to access resources that will assist you in making educated vaccine decisions. For example, you can learn about the differences between vaccine requirements that govern being able to attend school or daycare and a federal vaccine recommendation. There are also resources below that will help you find out which types of vaccine exemptions are available in your state, how to protect and expand vaccine exemptions, and much more. Read more.
Get Informed on Issues Related to Health & Wellness
90% of Us Have COVID Pre-Condition
Posted September 11, 2020
BPA exposure is making us more susceptible to COVID-19. Action Alert! A new study, published in JAMA Network Open, found that those with the highest level of BPA had a 51 percent higher risk of death from all causes. This is just the latest in a long list of health conditions that are linked with this chemical. BPA is making us sick with diseases that make us more vulnerable to COVID-19. We must move to ban this chemical immediately. Read more.
Political Pressure Exacerbates COVID Vaccine Safety Concerns
Posted September 11, 2020
The pressure is mounting for a COVID vaccine to be approved. Will there be transparency on its safety and effectiveness? Action Alert! There have been a number of federal actions around the issue of a COVID vaccine in recent weeks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released technical guidelines to states, telling them to be prepared to store, distribute, and administer a COVID vaccine as early as late October or early November. Lawmakers have also introduced a bill aimed at instilling public confidence in an eventual COVID vaccine, but the bill does anything but. These actions underscore the need for transparency and freedom of choice when it comes to the issue of vaccination. Read more.
COVID-19 Pandemic Has Decimated Mental Health
Posted September 11, 2020
America has had an epidemic of poor health long before SARS-CoV-2 appeared earlier this year. This is largely a result of industry propaganda influencing their choices of large amounts of processed foods that are high in carbs and industrially processed vegetable oils. However, over the past several months, several polls discovered more about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic response on mental health, and it’s not good. In the featured video, Glenn Greenwald, host of System Update, discusses the “crumbling of the U.S. social fabric” and explores the rise in “deaths of despair” from drugs and suicide brought on by the pandemic. Read more.
California Wildfires Scorch Land the Size of Delaware During Record Heat
Posted September 11, 2020,
On a Labor Day weekend when the temperature hit 121 degrees in Los Angeles County, fire crews around California struggled to contain ongoing and growing blazes that have so far consumed more than 2 million acres this summer. That’s equal to the entire state of Delaware going up in flames, according to the BBC. Read more.
NYT: It Has Come to This: Ignore the C.D.C.
Posted September 11, 2020
Harold Varmus, former director of the National Institutes of Health and former co-chair of President Barack Obama’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, and Rajiv Shah, the president of the Rockefeller Foundation, have spoken. We were shocked upon reading the piece in The New York Times published by none other than this powerful pair. Their article states: We were startled and dismayed last week to learn that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a perplexing series of statements, had altered its testing guidelines to reduce the testing of asymptomatic people for the coronavirus. Read more.
Might Flu Shots Increase COVID-19 Pandemic Risk?
Posted September 11, 2020
Osterholm and Belongia stress there is a “false claim that influenza vaccination increases the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection” promoted by Judy Mikovits and circulating online, and that “Scientists, health care providers, and public health leaders must counter these claims with clear, evidence-based information on the importance of influenza vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Read more.
Astra Zeneca Shares Plunge as Human Trial for COVID-19 Vaccine is Halted Due to “Adverse Reaction’
Posted September 11, 2020
Stat News reports that the large, Phase 3 study testing a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford at dozens of sites across the U.S. has been put on hold due to a suspected serious adverse reaction in a participant in the United Kingdom. An individual familiar with the development said researchers had been told the hold was placed on the trial out of “an abundance of caution.” Read more.
Study to Researchers at UCLA and Stanford Finds Coronavirus “Ten Times Less Fatal than First Thought” (Video)
Posted September 11, 2020
A new study from medical scientists at UCLA and Stanford University finds the likelihood of contracting the coronavirus is much, much lower than previously thought. The study published in late June shows the current probability of becoming infected, going to the hospital or even death from COVID-19 is “an extremely rare event”. The study goes on to say that people are vastly overestimating their chances of getting sick and going to the hospital, especially here in the US… …These figures come after a revelation from the CDC itself, that of all deaths attributed to the coronavirus, just 6% actually died from the virus itself. The other 94% had severe underlying medical conditions. Read more.
After Shutdown, Legionnaires’ Lurking in Water System
Posted September 11, 2020
Legionella is naturally found in freshwater sources and doesn’t become a problem until it begins to multiply. People catch Legionnaires’ disease when droplets of water are misted, and the bacteria are inhaled. Further research into the growth pattern of Legionella shows it’s an opportunistic pathogen that grows more rapidly when the plumbing has low flow.7 In one investigation of the effect of “green” strategies to reduce water usage, scientists found that water age, or the amount of time water stayed in the plumbing, had a significant effect on pathogen growth. Read more.
