Category: AMERICA

Unvaccinated Djokovic out of US Open Because He Can’t Enter US

Novak Djokovic, the 21-time Grand Slam champion, said he has withdrawn from the U.S. Open because of the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine-related travel restrictions. “Sadly, I will not be able to travel to NY this time for US Open,” Djokovic wrote on Twitter. “Thank you #NoleFam for your messages of love and support.  Good luck to…


Military Health Data Changes Mask Trends During COVID-19

Health statistics of the U.S. military have been repeatedly changed over the past 15 months in a way that makes it difficult to gauge the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the health of military service members. In order to measure the impact, data from during the pandemic would be compared with data from before the pandemic….


New Group Fighting Against College COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

A new group of parents, students, and others has formed to fight COVID-19 vaccine mandates at U.S. colleges. No College Mandates is pressuring schools to rescind mandates, which have been imposed in schools across the country. “We just believe that this decision should be between the student and his physician or her physician, and colleges…


Sen. Roger Marshall Demands HHS Preserve Documents Related to Fauci and Collins

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) on Aug. 23 sent a letter (pdf) to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra, demanding that he take immediate steps to preserve all records and information related to Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins. The request came a day after Fauci’s announcement that he would…


Trump White House Pressured FDA to Reauthorize Hydroxychloroquine: Congressional Report

White House officials during the Trump administration pressured U.S. regulators to reauthorize a COVID-19 treatment and not impose certain guidance regarding emergency authorization requirements for COVID-19 vaccines, according to emails published by a House of Representatives panel on Aug. 24. Officials sent a blitz of messages in 2020 to Dr. Stephen Hahn, the director of the…


Jill Biden Tests Positive for COVID-19 Again in ‘Rebound’ Case

First Lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 in what appears to be a rebound case after taking Paxlovid, according to her office on Wednesday. “After testing negative on Tuesday, just now, the First Lady has tested positive for COVID-19 by antigen testing,” the first lady’s spokeswoman, Kelsey Donohue, said in a statement. “This represents…


EXCLUSIVE: Vaccinated Making Up Higher Proportion of COVID-19 Metrics in US

Vaccinated people are more likely than the unvaccinated to be a COVID-19 case, hospitalization, or death in 25 states, according to an Epoch Times investigation. In 14 of the states, a higher percentage of vaccinated people have tested positive, been hospitalized, or died with COVID-19 than the percentage of the population that was vaccinated. In 11 other states,…


Moderna Requests US Authorization for Omicron-Targeted COVID-19 Booster, Day After Pfizer

Moderna announced on Aug. 23 that it has requested emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine targeted for the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5. The company’s latest so-called bivalent vaccine dose, mRNA-1273.222, targets the BA.4/BA.5 subvariants of the Omicron strain as well as the original strain of…


Lessons Relearned: Some Good News About America

“I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear” begins Walt Whitman’s poem “I Hear America Singing.” Though published in his “Leaves of Grass” poetry collection in 1860 with the Civil War looming, Whitman’s verse celebrates the American work ethic, individuality, and the unity of the country. Things are different today. We may have occasionally…


EXCLUSIVE: Solitary Confinement Was ‘One of the Most Horrible Experiences’ for Dr. Simone Gold: AFLD Founder

Being put in solitary confinement was one of Dr. Simone Gold’s “most horrible experiences of her life,” according to the chairman of the board for America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLD), the organization that Gold founded. “I mean, unfortunately, she had to spend about eight days in the SHU, which is also known as solitary confinement because…