Category: AMERICA

Elon Musk Comes out Against COVID Vaccine Policies, Says Shots Should Not Be Mandatory in US

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk has come out against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and said he believes that such policies should not be put in place in the United States. In an interview with Time magazine, which named Musk Time’s 2021 Person of the Year on Monday, the billionaire confirmed that he has been vaccinated himself. “Yes, yeah….


Elon Musk Comes out Against COVID-19 Vaccine Policies, Says Shots Should Not Be Mandatory in US

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk has come out against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and said he believes that such policies should not be put in place in the United States. In an interview with Time magazine, which named Musk Time’s 2021 Person of the Year on Monday, the billionaire confirmed that he has been vaccinated himself. “Yes, yeah….


US Court Rejects Bid to Block United Airlines COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

A federal court panel turned down a bid to block United Airlines COVID-19 vaccine mandate, though one judge said he would have blocked the vaccination requirements. Three judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals considered a request by six United workers to halt the enforcement of the mandate, which has the company force workers…


George Washington University Mandates COVID-19 Booster Shots Amid Omicron Concerns

George Washington University now requires a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot for all eligible members of the campus community, citing recently detected cases of Omicron variant in Washington D.C. All students, faculty, and staff in university-operated facilities have to get a dose of the COVID-19 booster by Feb. 1, 2022, or be subject to weekly testings…


Kroger Ending COVID-19 Sick Leave Benefits for Unvaccinated Workers, Adding Health Surcharge

Kroger is ending certain benefits for unvaccinated workers in order to compel its workforce to take a COVID-19 vaccine. Unvaccinated workers will no longer be eligible to receive up to two weeks of paid emergency sick leave if they get sick with COVID-19 variants. Kroger, the country’s largest grocery chain, employs almost 500,000 employees who interact…


Amtrak Suspends COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Employees: Chief Executive

Passenger railroad operator Amtrak said Tuesday it will suspend its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees and no longer expects service disruptions in January. Amtrak Chief Executive Bill Flynn said in a memo obtained by The Epoch Times that employees who aren’t vaccinated can get tested instead. Fewer than 500 Amtrak workers are unvaccinated, he said….


Pfizer Says COVID-19 Antiviral Drug Shows 89% Efficacy, Potential Against Omicron

Pfizer’s experimental COVID-19 antiviral treatment is able to reduce the risk of hospitalization or death from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus by 89 percent when taken shortly after initial symptoms, the company announced on Tuesday in its full analysis of data from the trial. The U.S.-based pharmaceutical company’s final testing results on the drug, known as PAXLOVID,…


Andrew Cuomo Ordered to Return Money He Made From COVID-19 Book

A New York ethics board ordered former Gov. Andrew Cuomo to return the proceeds he received for a book about leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. The state Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) voted 12 to 1 Tuesday on a resolution that mandates Cuomo, a Democrat, to hand over the profits he made from the book “American…


Overwhelmingly Vaccinated Cornell University Shuts Down Campus as COVID-19 Cases Spike

Just a few days before the end of the semester, Cornell University is shutting down its campus and moving final exams online because of a recent surge in COVID-19 cases among its overwhelmingly vaccinated student population. In a message released Tuesday, Cornell President Martha E. Pollack told the campus community that the university’s surveillance testing…


Virginia Hospital Allows COVID Patient to Get Ivermectrin After Court Holds It in Contempt: Family

After a judge ruled that Virginia’s Fauquier Hospital was found in contempt of court in a lawsuit filed on behalf of a COVID-19 patient who was denied being prescribed Ivermectin, the hospital said Tuesday that it is complying with the court order. Christopher Davies, the son of the patient, Kathleen Davies, told the Fauquier Times that…