Category: AMERICA

Praise and Prick: Pennsylvania Pays Churches to Convince Members to Get Vaccinated

Many who have chosen not to get the COVID-19 shots have cited religious objections. Now Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf’s administration wants church leaders to bring vaccination events into churches. Pennsylvania’s public health leaders want to “harness the power of community trust in statewide faith-based organizations” to convince folks to get a COVID-19 shot. That is…


Large Study Finds That Protection Against COVID-19 From 4th Shot Drops Quickly

An Israeli study found that a fourth dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doesn’t offer long-lived protection against the Omicron variant of the CCP virus. Using Ministry of Health data on more than 1.2 million people, researchers found that a second booster dose of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine offered protection against significant COVID-19 infections for six weeks….


Large Israeli Study Finds That Protection Against COVID-19 From 4th Shot Drops Quickly

An Israeli study found that a fourth dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doesn’t offer long-lived protection against the Omicron variant of the CCP virus. Using Ministry of Health data on more than 1.2 million people, researchers found that a second booster dose of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine offered protection against significant COVID-19 infections for six weeks….


Lockdown States Drag Down Overburdened Labor Market

News Analysis States that instituted more severe COVID-19 lockdowns have put a drag on recovery in a labor market desperate for hires. With the onset of the pandemic in 2020, millions of Americans left or were forced out of the labor pool due to fear of the disease or government restrictions. The majority of them…


NYC Lawyer Fired After Questioning Mayor Erik Adams on Mask Mandate for Toddlers

A New York City attorney was fired from her law department job on Monday after she reportedly had misrepresented herself as a journalist in order to question Mayor Erik Adams on a mask mandate for children aged 2 to 4. Daniela Jampel, who had worked as an assistant corporation counsel at the NYC Law Department…


NYC Lawyer Fired After Questioning Mayor Eric Adams on Mask Mandate for Toddlers

A New York City attorney was fired from her law department job on Monday after she reportedly had misrepresented herself as a journalist in order to question Mayor Eric Adams on a mask mandate for children aged 2 to 4. Daniela Jampel, who had worked as an assistant corporation counsel at the NYC Law Department…


White House COVID-19 Czar: US Has ‘National Interest’ to Vaccinate Entire World

White House COVID-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients proclaimed that it is in the United States’ “national interest” to get the entire world vaccinated for COVID-19, coming after senators dropped a provision that would provide global funding in a spending package. “It is a real disappointment that there’s no global funding in this bill. This virus…


High Immunity Protecting Americans From Omicron BA.2: CDC Director

Americans have high enough immunity to ward off the threat posed by the BA.2 Omicron COVID-19 variant to some extent, according to Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “The high level of immunity in the population from vaccines, boosters, and previous infection will provide some level of protection against…


FDA Official Defends Bypassing Expert Panel When Clearing Fourth COVID-19 Shots

A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official on April 6 defended the agency’s recent decision to authorize fourth COVID-19 vaccine doses for millions of Americans without convening its expert advisory panel. Dr. Peter Marks, head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, downplayed the authorization, claiming it was not “a major expansion or a…


Biden Administration Stops Shipments of COVID-19 Treatment to All States

The U.S. government on March 5 immediately halted all shipments of a COVID-19 treatment to states and ordered health care providers not to use the drug. The actions were taken because of the increasing prevalence of BA.2, a subvariant of Omicron, which is itself a variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, also known as SARS-CoV-2,…