The Pfizer Covid-19 injection has been given emergency use authorisation to be used in children over the age of 12 in the UK by the MHRA, whilst the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) have decided that vulnerable children over the…
FDA Grants Full Approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine
The FDA has announced that it has given the Pfizer Covid-19 full approval despite being linked to blood clots and other life-threatening adverse reactions. Today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given full approval to the Pfizer Covid-19 …

Congress’s Democrat-on-Democrat hostage standoff, explained
On the surface, the latest dispute between moderate Democrats and party leaders in Congress seems trivial. It’s about which of Biden’s two big bills will move forward first in the US House. Will it be the bipartisan infrastructure deal, which passed…

Adam Serwer on the all-American politics of cruelty
The phrase “The cruelty is the point” achieved mantra status during the Trump presidency. It was coined by Adam Serwer, a writer at the Atlantic and a sharp observer of race and American politics. Serwer recently released an anthology of his writing…

The Jeopardy hosting saga has become a cautionary morality tale
In the end, Jeopardy executive producer Mike Richards was the face of the legendary quiz show for approximately one day. After a year of guest hosts, some of whom were backdoor-auditioning for the job of permanent host after the death of Alex Trebek…

What full FDA approval for Covid-19 vaccines really means
Nearly nine months after the first Americans received their shots, the Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech received full approval from the Food and Drug Administration for people 16 and older on Monday. This could help increase the number of peopl…
