by Richard Eldred, Daily Sceptic:

For the first time, a U.S. public health board has banned COVID-19 vaccines, with Idaho’s health department declaring that the risks now outweigh the benefits. The Telegraph has more.

Idaho’s Southwest District health department board voted four-three to stop making the vaccines available to residents in six counties across the state. All COVID-19 vaccines have been either approved or authorised for emergency use across the U.S. by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The decision by the Idaho regional board will likely give ammunition to vaccine-sceptics and anti-vaxxers who pushed against the rollout of the vaccines in the U.S. It is likely that other public health boards could follow suit. Similar campaigns were run in Europe including the U.K. but received short shrift.