Category: AMERICA

4 in 10 COVID-19 Patients in California Hospital Fully Vaccinated After Omicron Emergence: Study

Some four in 10 COVID-19 patients in a hospital in California during late December 2021 and most of January were fully vaccinated, according to a new study. The percentage of fully patients in an academic hospital in California climbed from 25 percent in the summer of 2021 to 40 percent after the Omicron virus variant…


16 States File New Challenge to Biden Administration’s Health Care Worker COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

Louisiana and 15 other states on Friday lodged a new legal challenge against the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers, arguing the dominance of the Omicron virus variant undercuts the justification for the mandate. Approximately 10.4 million workers fall under the vaccination requirements, which apply to every facility that receives Medicare or…


CDC to Ramp Up Wastewater Surveillance Scheme to Boost COVID-19 Tracking Efforts

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday it’s expanding a wastewater surveillance program to enhance efforts to track COVID-19 infections across the United States. “Go on, get the sewer jokes out of your system,” the CDC said in a note in October 2020, shortly after it first launched the scheme, called the National…


Medicare Opens Up Access to Free At-Home COVID-19 Tests

WASHINGTON—The Biden administration on Thursday announced that people with Medicare will be able to get free over-the-counter tests much more easily in the coming weeks. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said Medicare will cover up to eight free tests per month, starting in early spring. The tests will be handed out at participating…


NYPD, FDNY, DSNY Members to Be Fired Unless They Comply With Vaccine Mandate

Unvaccinated NYPD, FDNY, and DSNY (New York Department of Sanitation) members will be terminated on Feb. 11, unless they comply with the city’s COVID-19 vaccine rules. Letters obtained by The Epoch Times, written by the Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA) and the Uniformed Firefighters Association (UFA) to its respective members, indicate that the NYC Mayor has…


Dr. Ryan Cole: Clinical Studies Needed as Uptick in Cancers Observed After COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout

Dr. Ryan Cole, pathologist and founder of Cole Diagnostics, says that he is observing a concerning pattern of certain cancers after the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines and that rigorous studies need to be conducted. “In the laboratory, I’m seeing an uptick in cancers that I shouldn’t be seeing at rates I shouldn’t be seeing…


EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Responds to DoD Whistleblowers’ Claim of Spiking Disease Rates in the Military After COVID Vaccine Mandate

Three United States military doctors have blown the whistle on documents allegedly from The United States Department of Defense (DoD) that they had access to, which show “skyrocketing rates of disease” since the introduction and mandating of the CCP virus vaccines in armed forces, human rights Att. Leigh Dundas told The Epoch Times. Dundas was recently…


Judge Halts Virginia Governor’s Order Ending Mask Mandates in Schools

A Virginia judge on Friday afternoon granted a temporary injunction to seven school districts in Virginia to allow school boards to continue to mandate mask-wearing for students. One of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s first executive orders sought to give parents flexibility in whether to allow mask-wearing for their children in education settings. Several school boards, in response,…


CDC Decides to Keep Trump-Era Immigration Policy Due to Omicron

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) decided Friday to keep the Trump-era policy of expelling illegal immigrants due to the spread of COVID-19. The rule, known as Title 42, allows the administration to expel illegal immigrants who recently were in a country where a communicable disease was present. Data from the U.S. Customs and Border…


‘Transparency Failure:’ Lawmakers Criticize FDA as Key Vaccine Approval Document Remains Offline

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is under fire after taking a key document offline following questioning from The Epoch Times. Multiple members of Congress are calling for the agency to quickly repost the document, which detailed why the agency decided to approve Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. “Lack of transparency, mixed messaging, and the continued failure…