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Canada provides Pfizer vaccine for children 12 years of age and older
Ottawa — Health Canada says the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is now safe to give to children ages 12 and up.
The federal health agency has announced it has approved administering the vaccine to children ages 12 to 15, after initially authorizing it for use in individuals 16 years of age and older.
“After completing a thorough and independent scientific review of the evidence, the department determined that this vaccine is safe and effective when used in this younger age group,” said Health Canada’s chief medical adviser Dr. Supriya Sharma.
Health Canada has authorized those 12 years of age and older to be given the same dose regimen as adults. The authorization was based on the results of Pfizer-BioNTech’s Phase 3 clinical trial involving 2,260 adolescents aged 12 to 15.
Conducted in the United States, the trial found the vaccine to be 100 per cent effective in children aged 12 to 15, up from the 95 per cent efficacy shown after the second shot in the trials with older age groups.
“While younger people are less likely to experience serious cases of COVID-19, having access to a safe and effective vaccine will help control the disease’s spread to their family and friends, some of whom may be at higher risk of complications. It will also support the return to a more normal life for our children who have had such a hard time over the past year,” Sharma said.
The two-dose Pfizer vaccine was the first COVID-19 vaccine to be authorized by Health Canada. It was given the regulatory green light in December 2020 and was the first COVID-19 vaccine to be administered in this country.
“There are some provinces that have already provided some vaccine to this age group, if they were children that were at high risk. That was done off label, which is absolutely within their purview, so we do have some children in Canada that have already received a vaccine dose,” Sharma told reporters on Wednesday.
Although federal officials said Wednesday that Canada is the first country in the world to authorize the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children aged 12 and older, a Pfizer spokesperson later said that Algeria had done so last month.
‘SIGNIFICANT STEP’ WITH SCHOOLING IMPLICATIONS
In a statement about the first COVID-19 vaccine Canada has authorized for use in younger age groups, Pfizer Canada’s vaccine lead Fabien Paquette called it “a significant step forward in helping the Canadian government broaden its vaccination program and begin to help protect adolescents before the start of the next school year.”
BioNTech’s chief medical officer Ozlem Tureci said research is continuing on the use of the vaccine in pediatric populations, with a study ongoing into the safety and efficacy in children six months to 11 years of age.
Sharma said the pharmaceutical giant has indicated it could be submitting its submission to expand use to children ages five to 11 as soon as September.
Health Canada had been reviewing Pfizer-BioNTech’s submission to expand the use of the vaccine to 12 to 15 year olds since mid April.
“The most commonly reported side effects were temporary and mild, like a sore arm, chills or fever,” Sharma said.
Typically, the vaccine submission review process can take much longer, but because of an emergency order, Health Canada has been able to expedite the authorization process.
Other authorized COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers are also conducting trials with their vaccines in children and it’s likely over time other vaccines in use in Canada could start being offered to younger people.
As has been the case with each new COVID-19 vaccine approval from Health Canada, the agency has published a series of documents detailing its decision and a summary of the evidence reviewed.
Pfizer-BioNTech is required to continue providing Health Canada with ongoing safety and efficacy information as the product becomes used in real world settings.
The vaccine is an mRNA vaccine, which means it teaches cells how to make a protein that triggers an immune response, without using the live virus that causes COVID-19. Once that immune response is triggered, antibodies are produced, which protect people from being infected should the virus enter their system in the future.
“Everybody who has been willing to get immunized themselves should be willing to have their children vaccinated as well. They’re doing the right thing,” said pediatrician and infectious disease specialist Dr. Jim Kellner in an interview on adding that seeing kids get vaccinated will be key to Canada reaching herd immunity against COVID-19.
Asked what this might mean for schools to be able to reopen, Sharma said that’ll depend on how and when provinces and territories decide to administer these shots to younger people.
WHEN WILL SHOTS BE GIVEN TO KIDS?
Sharma said that federal officials leading the national vaccine rollout will have more to say on Thursday about what this authorization might mean for the mass vaccination effort.
Prior to expanding who could become eligible to be vaccinated, the federal government had said it’d have enough doses in Canada to fully vaccinate everyone who was eligible by the end of September.
Shortly after Health Canada’s announcement, Alberta announced that every Albertan aged 12 and older will be eligible and able to register to receive this vaccine starting Monday. Ontario said Wednesday that plans are being made to start vaccinating Ontarians ages 12 to 18, but there’s no firm timeline on when they’ll be able to book their shots yet.
Emergency room physician Dr. Lisa Salamon suggested that in hotspots nationwide, shots should start to be made available to children 12 and older.
“It’s going to be complicated… But they are the spreaders,” she said, suggesting when parents are coming to get their shots that their eligible family members should be able to come with them.
“We have enough vaccine. I think we really need to consider strongly — particularly in the hotspots when we have structural barriers here — to be able to roll in the younger members of those families and for them to be able to come together as a family and get everyone vaccinated as soon as possible who are eligible,” she said.
After a winter delay as production capacity was increased, the manufacturing giant has been Canada’s most consistent supplier of vaccines. With nearly 11 million doses sent to Canada to date, Pfizer has committed to sending more than two million doses per week, each week, until end of June.
Citing the uptick in vaccines arriving each week, Manitoba Vaccine Implementation Task Force Co-Lead Johanu Botha said Wednesday that the province is aiming to have all Manitobans aged 12 and older eligible by May 21.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is also expected to authorize the vaccine for 12 to 15 year olds next week.
Vanessa Joy Lancellotti was a newlywed preparing to get her life moving when the unthinkable happened — a February 2016 near-death experience that was absolutely terrifying.
“I had a ruptured arteriovenous malformation of the brain … and it’s something that I wasn’t aware I had that you can actually develop … in the womb … before birth,” Lancellotti told CBN News. “And, so, it just ruptured out of nowhere when I was having tea with my two sisters, Amanda and Melissa.”
The sisters were having a good time when Lancellotti started experiencing sharp pain in the back of her head — an ache so strong she collapsed to her knees in discomfort.
Lancellotti, who tells her story in the new book, “Miracles Really Do Happen!: Jesus Makes All Things New,” said she was “really scared,” and that her sisters rushed to get her to the hospital.
“I felt [like my head] was wet inside,” she said. “I felt it rupture. I felt the bleed out.”
Lancellotti said she knew what she was experiencing was serious and “life-threatening” and that death might befall her.
“I started preparing myself to meet Jesus because I really felt and believed that, ‘OK, this is it. I think I only have a few minutes left and I better get ready and prepare myself to meet Jesus,’” she said. “And, so, I started to repent the best way that I could and go through kind of my life history.”
She continued to repent while on the way to the hospital, fully prepared to die.
By the time she reached the hospital, she was unable to function. With the hospital ill-equipped to deal with the situation, they prepared to transport her to another facility and loaded her into an ambulance.
“I was preparing to die,” Lancellotti said. “I was not praying like, ‘Oh, Lord, let me be healed,’ because I knew that this was happening quickly. … It was like I was preparing to meet the Lord.”
Suddenly, while in the ambulance, she felt like she had been swept up into a “new place” and all of her pain and fear dissipated.
“I had no recollection of the past at all whatsoever,” she said. “It’s like sin never existed, pain never existed — no physical, spiritual, emotional pain at all. It was all gone, and it was wiped away immediately, and I was in the presence of the Lord. It was just this bright white, vibrant light around me, like this pure, pure white.”
Lancellotti said it is hard to put the experience into words. Overtaken by peace, she said she was suddenly with Jesus.
“I had an encounter with Jesus, like he was standing before me and He was just brilliant,” she said. “He was in brilliant white robes with this light blue sash around him, and I remember I felt like this little girl, like I felt very pure and innocent.”
Lancellotti continued, “And I remember that Jesus — He hugged me. I felt so, so loved … just like I was completely taken out of any trauma and I was in His presence. I was in His arms … He hugged me with His wide open arms and I felt so loved, and like all the fear was gone and I knew that I was protected.”
And then she said the Lord delivered a message she’ll never forget.
“He said to me, ‘It is not yet your time,’” she said. “I went back into the ambulance or back into the hospital.”
What’s most remarkable is the fact that her heart didn’t stop, so at no time was she clinically dead. Yet she doesn’t believe the experience was merely a dream or a vision.
“I was literally in a new place,” Lancellotti said. “I believe I was in paradise. I was with Him in heaven.”
The interaction profoundly transformed her life.
“Right after I had the encounter with Christ and my family was around me, my mom, she’s like, ‘You have such a glow around you,’ and I had such a joy despite what just happened or what we were going through.”
That joy persisted even as she was prepared for surgery. Suddenly, her spiritual awareness was totally illuminated, with Lancellotti focusing on Jesus’ imminent return as well as His care for her.
“He loves me,” she said. “He saved me.”
Afterward, she started attending revivals and learned more about the Holy Spirit. Over time, she said her faith got much stronger.
“Up to that point…I knew I had a strong knowledge and understanding of the Gospel,” she said. “I had a relationship with Christ. But, up until that point, I didn’t really know very much about the power of the Holy Spirit or the gifts of the Holy Spirit and how they operate in us as believers.”
Now, Lancellotti is sharing her story in an effort to help build up others’ faith, using her book “Miracles Really Do Happen!: Jesus Makes All Things New” to inspire.
Sources:faithwire
A California pastor is getting candid about why he almost quit ministry, shedding light on struggles preachers routinely face.
Shane Idleman of Westside Christian Fellowship in Leona Valley, California, is out with a new book, “I Almost Quit: My Journey of Leading Through the Landmines of Ministry,” a text detailing the factors that almost drove him away from the pulpit.
Idleman said he had gone through a “hard season” in recent years that presented difficult challenges — a time of chaos that started with COVID-19 chaos and lockdowns, his mom’s death, health issues, and extended into other realms.
After nearly leaving it all behind, the preacher could have concealed what he faced and felt, but, instead, he decided to openly share it all.
“I didn’t want to write it, of course,” Idleman admitted of the book. “Number one, it’s a little embarrassing. Of course, I’ve got the armchair critics. … ‘It’s God’s call. You should never want to quit.’ But, then, on the other hand, we know all the pastors I’m hearing from feel the same way.”
Recent survey data show that around 1 in 100 preachers leave the pulpit each year, a relatively low number, according to Lifeway Research. But the pressures of the role are evident.
“Two in 3 (67%) [preachers] feel they must be ‘on-call’ 24 hours a day,” the research firm reported. “Another 57% say their role is frequently overwhelming, up slightly from 54% in 2015 but down from 63% in 2021.”
Lifeway continued, “Around half (47%) of pastors often feel the demands of ministry are greater than they can handle.”
Idleman was feeling some of these very pressures.
“Everything was just hitting, and hitting, and hitting,” he said. “And I went through a very difficult season.”
What’s most interesting is that Idleman’s decision to share his struggles with his congregation actually encouraged spiritual fervor and sparked revival.
“When I finally [spoke] to our congregation, the floodgates broke,” Idleman said. “The following Sunday, we couldn’t even have a service. We just went into worship, the altar’s full — it really sparked revival in our hearts and in our church.”
The preacher believes the decision to be “transparent and repentant” helped others in their own faith walk.
“I had to repent of it,” he said. “I was disgruntled, I was discouraged, I didn’t really want to go to church.”
But Idleman was encouraged by the response and decided to write the book. Already, he’s hearing from other preachers who are feeling strongly encouraged by his honesty — a testament of struggles to which many of them can deeply relate.
“I just want to be faithful,” he said. “And we get our hearts right, we’re happy, we’re filled with joy. It makes all the difference.”
Ultimately, Idleman said God worked on his heart in key ways that prevented him from actually taking the plunge and quitting. At first, he wondered if he needed a sabbatical, but his wife pushed back.
“I thank God for our spouses, right? She’s like, ‘No, I don’t think you need another sabbatical. … You need a man up and just do what God’s called you to do,’” he said.
Idleman leaned into worship and repentance, telling God about his discouragement and apologizing. He also asked the Lord to bring back joy in his life – and he committed to showing up to church and fulfilling his obligations despite his feelings.
“He’s a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him,” Idleman said of God. “And that’s a process of just pressing in.”
As for his health, the preacher regained self-discipline and was able to get his body back in order.
“When you discipline your body, it has spiritual benefits because the physical effects is spiritual,” Idleman said. “It’s quite amazing. And so all of those things combined together really just released that floodgate that opened up.”
Sources:faithwire
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സ്വന്തം പേരിൽ സ്മാർട്ഫോൺ വിപണിയിലിറക്കി ട്രംപ്; ബുക്കിങ് തുടങ്ങി, ഇന്ത്യയിലേക്ക് അൺലിമിറ്റസ് കോൾ റീചാർജ് പ്ലാൻ
യുഎസ് പ്രസിഡൻ്റ് ഡോണൾഡ് ട്രംപിന്റെ (Donald Trump) ഉടമസ്ഥതയിലുള്ള ദ് ട്രംപ് ഓർഗനൈസേഷൻ (The Trump Organization) മൊബൈൽഫോണും റീചാർജ് പ്ലാനും അവതരിപ്പിച്ച് ‘ടെലികോം’, മൊബൈൽ സേവനത്തിലേക്കും കടക്കുന്നു. 499 ഡോളർ (നിലവിലെ വിനിമയനിരക്കു പ്രകാരം ഏകദേശം 43,000 രൂപ) വിലയുള്ള ‘ടി1′ (T1) സ്മാർട്ഫോണാണ് “ട്രംപ് മൊബൈൽ’ (Trump Mobile) ബ്രാൻഡിൽ വിപണിയിലിറക്കുന്നത്.
സെപ്റ്റംബറിലാണ് ഫോൺ വിൽപനയ്ക്ക് എത്തുകയെങ്കിലും 100 ഡോളർ (8,600 രൂപ) നൽകി ഇപ്പോൾ ബുക്ക് ചെയ്യാമെന്ന് ട്രംപ് ഓർഗനൈസേഷൻ വ്യക്തമാക്കി. അതേസമയം, ഫോൺ ബുക്ക് ചെയ്യാൻ ആളുകൾ തിക്കിത്തിരക്കിയതോടെ കമ്പനിയുടെ വെബ്സൈറ്റ് ഏറെ നേരത്തേക്ക് പ്രവർത്തനരഹിതമായെങ്കിലും പിന്നീട് സജീവമായി.
റീചാർജ് പ്ലാനിലും സവിശേഷത
പ്രതിമാസം 47.45 ഡോളറിൻ്റെ (ഏകദേശം 4,000 രൂപ) റീചാർജ് പ്ലാനും ട്രംപ് ഓർഗനൈസേഷൻ അവതരിപ്പിച്ചു. അൺലിമിറ്റഡ് കോളും എസ്എംഎസും ഡേറ്റയും (ഇന്റർനെറ്റ്) ഒപ്പം 24*7 റോഡ്സൈഡ് അസിസ്റ്റൻസും ടെലിഹെൽത്ത് സേവനവും മറ്റും ഉറപ്പുനൽകുന്നതാണ് “ദ് 47 പ്ലാൻ’ (The 47 Plan). ഇന്ത്യയിലേക്ക് ത് അടക്കം 100ഓളം രാജ്യങ്ങളിലേക്ക് അൺലിമിറ്റഡ് കോളും വാഗ്ദാനം ചെയ്യുന്നു.
Sources:azchavattomonline.com
US President Donald Trump’s company, Trump Organization, launched an America-made smartphone named Trump Mobile on Monday, 16 June 2025, according to the news agency Reuters. The company aims to capture conservative consumers and give them an alternative to other major telecom providers.
According to the agency report, the company has fixed the price of the phone at $499. The Trump Organization also said that both the call centre and the manufacturing of the phones will be done in the United States.
“Trump Mobile is going to change the game, we’re building on the movement to put America first, and we will deliver the highest levels of quality and service. Our company is based right here in the United States because we know it’s what our customers want and deserve,” said Donald Trump Jr. in the official announcement on Monday.
Monthly cost of Trump Mobile
According to the official website, Trump Mobile is offering “The 47 Plan,” which is wireless services for a monthly charge of $47.45 through which users will be able to avail unlimited talk, texts, and mobile data (first 20GB at high speed).
The benefits also highlight that the users will be able to call internationally to 100 destinations, have no contract and will be eligible to cancel anytime.
The company also said that it will not carry out a credit history check before giving a user a SIM card. Trump Mobile will also give out SIM cards to people who bring their own phones.
Other special features of the new device will be to provide Roadside Assistance through Drive America.
The company also announced that it will release its golden colored ‘T1 Phone’, which is made in America, for the people of the United States.
“Trump Mobile is also excited to announce it will release the “T1 Phone” in August. It is a sleek, gold smartphone engineered for performance and proudly designed and built in the United States for customers who expect the best from their mobile carrier,” said the company in the official release.
According to the agency report, more than 60 million smartphones are purchased annually in the United States. However, all of these devices are manufactured in India. China, South Korea, India and Vietnam are the major smartphone manufacturing hubs of the world.
The agency cited that due to the higher labour costs, supply chain complexity, and dependence on overseas component sourcing, the domestic manufacturing of smartphones has always been a challenge in the US.
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