Category: AMERICA

CDC Says Some People Should Wait Longer for Second COVID-19 Shot Due to Heart Inflammation Risk

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has officially altered its recommended COVID-19 vaccination schedule in a bid to address concerns about the elevated rate of heart inflammation seen among many groups who have gotten a vaccine. The two most widely administered COVID-19 vaccines in the country are made by Moderna and Pfizer. Recipients…


New Study Finds COVID-19 Vaccines Offer ‘Virtually No Protection’ Against Omicron

Individuals who are double-vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19 have “virtually no protection” against the Omicron variant, according to a peer-reviewed study. The research, led by Rudolf Valenta of the Medical University of Vienna, found that only people who had received the third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine can form antibodies that could partially block Omicron,…


Growing Number of Experts Call on US Government to Recognize Natural Immunity

A growing number of experts are urging the U.S. government to formally recognize natural immunity, or the protection one enjoys after recovering from COVID-19. More and more experts are arguing that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recommended vaccination schedule should feature fewer doses—or none at all—for people who have contracted COVID-19 and…


Chicago to Drop Vaccine, Indoor Mask Mandates for Certain Locations: Mayor

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday that the city’s indoor mask mandate and COVID-19 vaccination requirement for certain businesses will be scrapped effective Feb. 28. Lightfoot told reporters at a news conference that mask-wearing will still be enforced in the city’s public transit system, health care settings such as hospitals and nursing homes, and congregate…


Moderna Begins Late-Stage Study of RSV Vaccine Using mRNA Technology

Moderna Inc. said on Tuesday it had begun a late-stage study of its vaccine for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) based on the same technology used to develop its COVID-19 shots. The only approved product using messenger RNA (mRNA)is COVID-19 vaccine, but Moderna and rival Pfizer are rushing to tap the potential of the technology to…


CDC Taps Palantir to Support COVID-19 Drug Supply in US

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded Palantir Technologies Inc. a $5.3 million contract to manage distribution of COVID-19 drugs in the United States, the software maker said on Tuesday. The contract for supporting distribution of therapeutics is for a duration of six months, Palantir said. The new partnership is an extension…


Seattle Area Buses Suffer From Supply Chain Issues, Staff Shortages

The global supply chain crisis and staffing shortages is beginning to hit Seattle area public transit, as buses in need of repair are piling up at their depots, The Seattle Times has reported. King County Metro is the public transit authority of King County, Washington, which includes the city of Seattle, and is the eighth-largest…


Why Did the US Ruling Class Tie America’s Fate to the World’s Most Dangerous Regime

Fifty years ago this week, it was a Republican president who first opened relations with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger reasoned that establishing ties with China would weaken the Soviet Union—and help America. Half a century later, the Democrats have become the pro-China party. Their campaign war-chests are filled with…


Maryland Board of Education Lifts Statewide School Mask Mandate

Maryland’s Board of Education on Feb. 22 voted to lift the statewide mask mandate it imposed in 2021. Members voted 12–2 to rescind the mandate. Authorities noted that COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are declining nationwide as well as in Maryland, that COVID-19 vaccines are available to all Americans 5 and older, and that there has…


Senate Republicans Introduce Bill to End Biden’s Vaccine Mandate for International Truckers

A coalition of Senate Republicans led by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) have introduced legislation that would end the Biden administration’s requirement that foreign truckers transporting goods be vaccinated to enter the United States. In January, both the U.S. and Canadian federal governments instituted rules requiring that foreign truckers transporting goods over international lines be vaccinated….