(Headline USA) The United States is in an "unnecessary predicament" of soaring COVID-19 cases fueled by unvaccinated Americans and the delta variant, the nation's top infectious diseases bureaucrat said Sunday.
"We're going in the wrong direction," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, describing himself as "very frustrated."
He said recommending that the vaccinated...
(Headline USA) Just when Americans thought they were finally done with mask mandates, it seems they are back in action.
One Republican attorney general, though, is fighting back.
St. Louis leaders experienced backlash after announcing Friday a new mask mandate while indoors, even for children and even for the vaccinated.
St. Louis...
(Headline USA) Republican politicians were under increasing pressure to persuade COVID-19 vaccine skeptics to roll up their sleeves and take the shots as the Biden administration faces a wall of resistance with only half the country fully vaccinated.
Amid an aggressive public-relations push, there were signs that messaging was changing...
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, blamed "unvaccinated folks" for allowing COVID-19 to keep spreading, and calling the vaccines a "cure."
Alabama has the lowest vaccination rate in the country, with 39.6 percent of the state's residents 12 years and older having received a full vaccination, Politico reported.
America as a...
(Jon Styf, The Center Square) Gov. Bill Lee backed the decision to fire the Tennessee Department of Health’s top vaccine expert, Dr. Michelle Fiscus, during a Thursday news conference.
Lee said the decision was made by Department of Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey and department leadership.
“I trust that decision,” Lee said. “I...
(Headline USA) China cannot accept the World Health Organization's plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of COVID-19, a senior Chinese health official said Thursday.
Zeng Yixin, the vice minister of the National Health Commission, said he was “rather taken aback" that the plan includes further investigation...
(Elizabeth Troutman, The Center Square) Gov. Doug Ducey's office has sent letters to two Arizona school districts, Peoria Unified and Catalina Foothills, demanding they “immediately rescind” their policy of quarantining unvaccinated students exposed to COVID-19 because the policy breaks state law.
Kaitlin Harrier, education policy adviser to the governor, wrote that...
The efforts by coronavirus czar Anthony Fauci on Tuesday to intentionally obfuscate the truth about his agency's support of controversial gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were quickly exposed by a 2018 video in which he expressed his full-throated support of the banned methodology.
The Gateway Pundit, via...
(Headline USA) Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell implored unvaccinated Americans Tuesday to take the COVID-19 shot, issuing a stark and grave warning of a repeat of last year's rising caseloads and shutdowns if people refuse to protect themselves from the coronavirus.
McConnell urged Americans to ignore the “demonstrably bad advice” coming...
UPDATE 7/21/21 7:00 AM: Following yesterday's confrontation during a Senate hearing between Republican Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease bureaucrat at the National Institutes of Health, the Kentucky Senator told Fox News' Sean Hannity Tuesday night that he is referring Fauci to the Justice...
(Headline USA) When Dr. Alexa Mieses Malchuk talks to patients about the COVID-19 vaccine, she tries to feel out where they get their information from.
“Sometimes I feel like the education I have to provide depends on what news channel that they watch,” the doctor in Durham, North Carolina, said.
The...
Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform confirmed on Tuesday in a memorandum that SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, "likely originated" in the Wuhan Virology Institute with assistance from America's federal health bureaucrats.
"Discovering the origins of this pandemic is the first step in a global defensive effort to...