Category: vaccine mandate

San Diego County Supervisors Re-Affirm Support for Vaccine Mandate For New Hires

SAN DIEGO—The county Board of Supervisors voted 3–2 on Nov. 2 to keep a vaccine mandate for new employees in place, following a lengthy and occasionally contentious public hearing. The new vote was taken in response to a letter challenging the mandate, which was originally passed on Oct. 5, also by a 3–2 vote. Board…


LA County to Offer COVID-19 Vaccine to Kids 5–11

LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles County will begin offering pediatric doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to kids aged 5-11 on Nov. 3, one day after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) gave final approval of the shots. The county received its first shipment of the vaccines on Tuesday, and county officials will gather…


Alabama Attorney General Files Lawsuit to Block Vaccine Mandate

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said on Nov. 2 that he had filed a lawsuit against an important part of the vaccine mandate introduced by the Biden administration. Marshall filed the lawsuit with the goal of stopping the federal mandate from being enforced in any state before it comes into effect on Dec. 8. On Sept….


Border Patrol Could Face Shortage of Agents Over Vaccine Mandate

While hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants cross the southern border in the worst immigration crisis in the nation’s history, the federal government could soon face a shortage of United States Border Patrol agents due to a COVID-19 vaccine mandate deadline on Nov. 22. President Joe Biden told CNN’s Anderson Cooper at a recent CNN…


Judge Denies Application to Halt Vaccine Mandate for LA Students 12 and Up

A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge denied on Oct. 29 an emergency application to pause the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all students 12 and older in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). As a result, unvaccinated students can still attend school in person until January next year, but may be excluded from extracurricular activities….


PART 2: Dr. Aaron Kheriaty on ‘Biosecurity Surveillance,’ Perverse Vaccine Incentives, and Testing COVID-19 Vaccines on Children

Last week, in part one of our interview with medical ethics professor Aaron Kheriaty, we discussed natural immunity, vaccine efficacy, and his lawsuit challenging his university’s vaccine mandates. Now in part two, we discuss perverse incentives involved in the vaccine rollout, the ethics of testing COVID-19 vaccines on children, and the rise of what he…


Up to 27,000 Federal Employees yet to Declare COVID Vaccination Status as Deadline Passes

As many as 27,000 public servants appear to have not yet declared their vaccination status to the federal government by the Oct. 29 deadline, leaving themselves at risk of being suspended from work. The federal vaccine mandate applies to over 267,000 federal employees from the “core public administration” including the RCMP, Canada Border Services Agency,…


Australian Professor and COVID-19 Vaccine Developer Could Lose Job After Refusing Shots

Australian professor and vaccine developer Nikolai Petrovsky faces losing his job after refusing to get one of the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)-approved shots, the ABC reported. Petrovsky developed his own COVID-19 vaccine, called COVAX-19, through his company Vaxine, which has laboratories at Flinders University. It completed phase one trials in August last year and the Adelaide-based medical researcher has administered the vaccine himself. However,…


Employees at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Protest Vaccine Mandate

About 20 employees at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a NASA field center, in Pasadena, California, protested the federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate Nov. 1. Last month, President Joe Biden signed an order that requires the vast majority of federal contractors to ensure their employees are fully vaccinated by Dec. 8, 2021. Employees seeking exemption must…


Missouri Governor Mike Parson Signs Executive Order Against COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) announced on Oct. 28 that he has issued an executive order to protect the individual rights of his state’s citizens against “overreaching” COVID-19 vaccine mandates from the Biden administration. “As the Governor of the State of Missouri, I stand with concerned Missourians and will do all I can to stop…