Category: AMERICA

Proposed State Law Would Make It Illegal to Request a Person’s Vaccine Status

A newly proposed South Carolina law would make it illegal for certain institutions to ask a person for their COVID-19 vaccination status. “The government has no place in making you or telling you to take the vaccination or threatening your livelihood if you don’t,” said state Rep. William Chumley, a co-sponsor of the bill, known…


Dr. McCullough: Early Treatment and Natural Immunity ‘Safe and Effective,’ No Need to Broadly Use COVID-19 Vaccines

According to the renowned cardiologist and epidemiologist Dr. Peter McCullough, early treatment and natural immunity are safe and effective against COVID-19, but federal health agencies have ignored these in a push for vaccines, the broad use of which is not needed. “The government has certainly been in an oblivion in terms of early treatment,” McCullough told NTD’s “Capitol…


COVID-19 Can Be Stopped Without Massive Vaccination: Dr. Peter McCullough

COVID-19 can be stopped without massive vaccination, renowned cardiologist and epidemiologist Dr. Peter McCullough told NTD’s “Capitol Report” program during the “Defeat the Mandates” march in Washington D.C., on Jan. 23. According to McCullough, early treatment and natural immunity are safe and effective against COVID-19, but federal health agencies have ignored these in a push for…


CDC Adds 15 More Countries to ‘High Risk’ Travel List

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) named 15 more destinations as “Very High” COVID-19 risk on Monday, including several popular Caribbean island destinations. The agency said that Americans are recommended against traveling to Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Fiji, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Kuwait, Mongolia, Niger, Peru, Romania, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Martin, Tunisia,…


Georgia Senate Bill Would Eliminate All Government Requirements for Vaccination

A bill introduced Monday in Georgia state Senate would abolish any requirements for any vaccinations by any government entities, including required vaccines for children to attend public school. Under SB 345, state and local government agencies, including school districts, are banned from issuing any form of vaccine passport, nor can they create any rules or…


New COVID-19 Sub-Variant Being Investigated, Detected in US

A new COVID-19 Omicron sub-variant known as BA.2 has been detected in the United States, officials said, coming after officials in the United Kindom and Denmark published reports on the strain in recent days. “There is still uncertainty around the significance of the changes to the viral genome, and further analyses will now be undertaken,”…


CDC Plans to ‘Pivot the Language’ on Vaccination: Walensky

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said that her agency is looking to change the language regarding COVID-19 vaccines. When asked about why the health agency is not changing the definition to include whether one is fully vaccinated with a booster dose or not, Walensky told reporters the CDC is working to…


Biden Administration Is Withdrawing OSHA COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced Tuesday it will formally withdraw its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private businesses with 100 or more employees on Wednesday. The agency issued an announcement in the Federal Register that it will withdraw its rule, known as an emergency temporary standard (ETS), which required companies to make employees either…


New York Judge Blocks State Mask Mandate, but Education Department Has Other Plans

After a state Supreme Court judge struck down New York’s mask mandate on Monday evening, the state’s Department of Education said that schools have to continue to follow the mandate. “It is [the department’s] understanding that the Department of Health will appeal the Nassau County Supreme Court decision, which will result in an automatic stay…


Florida Shuts Down all Monoclonal Antibody Treatment Sites After FDA Revokes Authorization

All state-run monoclonal antibody treatment sites in Florida are being shut down after U.S. drug regulators revoked emergency use authorization for the two most widely used monoclonals. The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) move banned, at least for now, the use of monoclonals produced by Regeneron and Eli Lilly. The regulator said the most recent…