New York City’s new health commissioner, Ashwin Vasan, said on Friday that the city’s vaccine mandate for private-sector workers who work on-site will continue indefinitely. The city’s school mask mandate for children aged 5 and under will also remain in place. At his first COVID-19 press briefing, when asked whether there were any specific benchmarks that would enable the city to decide to lift the vaccine mandate for private-sector workers, Vasan did not initially provide a direct response. “I would love to sit here and say I can give you a date or a data point to say when we would lift those things. Right now, we are in a low risk environment and we will continue to evaluate that data,” he said. When pressed further about whether there were any specific metric in mind for which the city government would lift the mandate Vasan responded: “I think it’s indefinite at this … » Read full article

Multinational study finds alarming link between CT scans in youths and cancer risks
by: Patrick Tims, staff writer | November 17, 2023 (NaturalHealth365) Repeated X-rays are widely acknowledged to subject the human body to potentially harmful radiation levels. However, a lesser-known fact is that CT