Correction: A representative for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative disputed that the nonprofit had supported the Israeli case study, as was stated in an earlier version.
"While CZI is a supporter of medRxiv, the preprint archive and server hosting this study, it did not fund and is not affiliated with the...
(Headline USA) Some of the biggest school systems in the U.S. are taking a hard line with teachers and staff members who are not yet vaccinated against COVID-19: Get a jab or lose your job.
But the policies have sparked protests from educators and, in some cases, push-back from local...
(Headline USA) Missouri is opening antibody treatment centers in several counties in the hopes that they’ll keep some high-risk patients with COVID-19 from dying or becoming critically ill.
Monoclonal antibody infusion treatment will be available for 30 days at sites in Jackson, Pettis, Scott, Butler and Jefferson counties. Two more...
(Greg Bishop, The Center Square) Most everyone in Illinois schools, including college students, must to get vaccinated or be regularly tested for COVID-19, Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s mandated Thursday in his latest executive order.
The governor also said masks will be required indoors statewide Monday.
Now a year-and-a-half into the pandemic, and nearly...
New York’s new governor, Kathy Hochul, released data on Tuesday that updated the state’s coronavirus deaths by nearly 12,000.
Hochul, attempting to distance herself from former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, submitted additional death certificate data to the New York Department of Health indicating that 55,395 statewide deaths were attributable to COVID-19.
That...
(Headline USA) Military troops must immediately begin to get the COVID-19 vaccine, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a memo Wednesday, ordering service leaders to “impose ambitious timelines for implementation.”
More than 800,000 service members have yet to get their shots, according to Pentagon data. And now that the BioNTech vaccine...
(Headline USA) Delta Air Lines will charge employees on the company health plan $200 a month if they fail to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a policy the airline's top executive says is necessary because the average hospital stay for the virus costs the airline $40,000.
CEO Ed Bastian said that all...
The Democratic Party's top-ranking congressional campaign fundraiser and organizer lectured Americans about the need for a united front to eliminate COVID-19 while he traveled, against State Department guidelines, in Europe.
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman tweeted his hypocritical advice on Aug. 14, the Washington...
Coronavirus czar Anthony Fauci was forced to walk back his prediction that COVID-19 would not be “under control” until fall of 2022, and said he doesn’t believe the U.S. will have control of the virus until spring of 2022.
Dr. Fauci says that if the majority of Americans get vaccinated,...
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot laughed as she said that more than 30,000 city employees will need to receive a COVID-19 inoculation to keep their jobs, WLS reported.
"City employees are absolutely going to be required to be vaccinated," Lightfoot said at a Monday press conference.
Lightfoot made the light-hearted announcement about...
(Greg Bishop, The Center Square) A doctor who was the target of a Pritzker administration professional licensure investigation has nothing further to say about the matter, but some at the Illinois statehouse want more information.
State Sen. Chapin Rose, R-Mohamet, early last week said his constituent, Dr. Jeremy Henrichs, was being...
(Ted O'Neil, The Center Square) The University of Washington Medical Center has reportedly told two patients awaiting organ transplants that they would be placed further down their respective lines over their refusal to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Sam Allen, 64, told Seattle radio station KTTH that he was informed in June...