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Why are Americans not receiving the newly developed COVID-19 vaccine?
Story by: Koshik kumar
According to recent survey data, Americans who do not intend to obtain the current COVID-19 vaccination claim protection against past illness and safety concerns as their major reasons for not taking the injection.
According to a Gallup poll taken from late November to early December, 51% of U.S. people do not intend to obtain the updated vaccine. So far, 29% of responders have rolled up their sleeves for the vaccination, with an additional 20% planning to do so in the future. If the estimates are correct, over half of all Americans might receive the newest vaccine.
The major reason for not obtaining the current COVID-19 vaccination, according to 27% of individuals who don’t plan to receive it, is having a previous coronavirus infection and believing they have antibodies.
The second most prevalent cause was anxiety about the vaccine’s safety. While the COVID-19 vaccinations have been shown time and again to be safe, vaccine hesitancy caused by the coronavirus epidemic remains a major public health concern.
Patient injury from medical devices has exposed severe flaws in the FDA’s monitoring, as proven by lawsuits and documents.
The pump, made by Medtronic, connects plastic tubing to an insulin reservoir, which Carlton “PeeWee” Gautney Jr. programmed to dispense dosages of the crucial hormone throughout the day. Gautney, a motorcycle enthusiast, worked as a dispatcher for the Opp, Alabama, police department.
On May 17, 2020, the 59-year-old died unexpectedly because, according to his family, the pump malfunctioned and administered a deadly overdose of insulin. According to the wrongful death claim, the pump was “defective and unreasonably dangerous.” Medtronic has denied that the pump caused Gautney’s death and has filed a summary judgment motion in court, which is still ongoing.
The pump Gautney used was one of over 400,000 Medtronic devices recalled beginning in November 2019, after the company stated in a recall notice that damage to the pump’s retainer ring could “lead to an over or under delivery of insulin,” which could “be life-threatening or may result in death.”
As the recall unfolded, federal officials learned that Medtronic had delayed responding – and notifying patients about potential risks with the pumps – despite receiving tens of thousands of complaints about the rings, according to government records.
According to the allegations, Merck neglected to educate the public about the link between Gardasil and autoimmune issues.
According to charges brought in a newly filed product liability complaint, Merck misled federal authorities, concealed severe side effects, and falsified medical reports to conceal autoimmune disorders induced by Gardasil HPV vaccinations.
Mackenzie Gardett filed the case on December 12 in the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, claiming that she suffered chronic autoimmune illnesses and life-altering adverse effects after getting Gardasil shots at the age of 13.
Garrett and a growing number of other people who are seeking Gardasil lawsuits claim that the HPV vaccine left them with persistent and life-changing autoimmune disorders.
The Year in Opioid Settlements: 5 Facts to Know
- This year, almost $1.5 billion in court settlements with more than a dozen firms that produced, marketed, or distributed prescription opioids and were sued for their involvement in fuelling the opioid crisis have arrived in state and local government budgets.
- That money has moved from an emerging financing stream with great but unknown goals to a prized source of billions of dollars being invested in real-time addiction treatment.
- Over the next two decades, the firms are scheduled to contribute more than $50 billion to state and municipal governments.
- Meanwhile, over 100,000 Americans have perished each year from drug overdoses in recent years, emphasizing the severity of the situation.
- Manufacturers such as Allergan and Johnson & Johnson agreed not to sell opioids for ten years as part of their settlements and to reduce marketing and promotion activities. Under the supervision of an impartial third-party monitor, pharmaceutical distributors were expected to boost up efforts to identify questionable orders from pharmacies. Retail pharmacy chains must undertake audits and site inspections at their pharmacies, as well as disclose data concerning problematic prescribers with state regulators.
Talc Lawyer Responds to J&J’s Attempt to Disqualify Him, Calls ‘Smear Tactics’
A senior plaintiffs’ lawyer and his firm have asked a federal judge to reject Johnson & Johnson’s (JNJ.N) request to remove them from the mass tort case over the company’s talc products, dismissing the company’s assertion that he forged an unethical alliance with a former J&J lawyer.
In a brief filed in federal court in Trenton, New Jersey, on Tuesday, Andrew Birchfield and his company, Beasley Allen, claimed that J&J blamed them for failing to resolve the talc dispute in bankruptcy, which was rejected by judges. Now that the corporation has stated its intention to file for a third bankruptcy, it “seeks to have this court remove them as obstacles,” according to the petition.
“J&J lacks credibility in this challenge given the company’s unhinged practice of bad faith bankruptcy filings, ad hominem attacks on opposing counsel, and unfounded efforts to disqualify any who oppose it,” they said in a statement. “Practicing law is a profession, not a locker-room brawl.”
The corporation requested U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp earlier this month to either disqualify Birchfield and Beasley Allen or remove them from the plaintiffs’ steering committee, where they play a key role in coordinating the work of plaintiffs’ attorneys and formulating strategy.
Shipp is in charge of a combined mass tort action involving over 50,000 complaints alleging that asbestos in the company’s now-discontinued talc products caused cancer, the majority of which are filed by women with ovarian cancer. According to the manufacturer, its talc products are safe and do not contain asbestos.
The FDA in the United States has declined to approve Merck’s chronic cough medication.
The FDA has denied to approve Merck’s (MRK.N) medication for persistent cough, the firm announced on Wednesday, marking the second rejection in less than two years.
The health authorities determined that the company’s application for the medicine, gefapixant, lacked sufficient proof of efficacy in treating refractory chronic cough and unexplained chronic cough. In the United States, there are currently no authorized therapies for coughing spells that do not go away after treatment of underlying diseases or have no recognized cause.
The FDA’s decision allows competitor GSK’s (GSK.L) chronic cough therapy camlipixant some breathing room, which is in late-stage research and is expected to receive regulatory clearance and launch in 2026.
Merck’s medicine for the ailment has been approved by the European Union and Japan, and it is marketed under the brand name Lyfnua.
A Law to Combat Neglected Diseases Is Providing Billion-Dollar Drug Government Subsidies
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. has amassed more than $20 billion in global sales from a cystic fibrosis medicine that was authorized four years ago and may cost up to $300,000 per year.
Vertex does not appear to require government aid with such spectacular sales. However, the Food and medication Administration also gave Vertex a bonus certificate, which it may use to speed a future medication approval or sell for about $100 million, according to an obscure scheme meant to incentivise businesses to develop treatments for unusual or neglected conditions.
According to a Bloomberg News report, the program has grown in recent years, with vouchers being provided for blockbuster treatments that would have been created otherwise. The rush of vouchers has made them less appealing to would-be sellers such as small businesses and organizations that rely on the funds to pursue rare diseases.
Meanwhile, Big Pharma reaps the rewards. Using a voucher, Eli Lilly & Co.’s blockbuster diabetic medicine Mounjaro hit the market in 2022, nearly four months earlier than it would have otherwise. Lilly is not required to reveal the voucher it used, although it looks to be one acquired for $80 million in 2018. Mounjaro, which has gained popularity as a weight loss supplement, has already surpassed $1 billion in quarterly sales.
Giving a voucher to a medicine with a potential market value of more than $1 billion is “laughable,” according to Harvard Medical School professor Aaron Kesselheim. “It is not how the program was intended to work.”
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