Category: Vaccine

DHS to Hold Mass COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic for Border Patrol Agents in Texas: Gov. Abbott

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will hold a mass vaccination clinic next week in the Rio Grande Valley to vaccinate Border Patrol agents in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott and National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) Brandon Judd said in a joint statement on Friday. Abbott and Judd said that agents had been left vulnerable and exposed…


Nearly Half of Trump Supporters Won’t Take the CCP Virus Vaccine: Poll

Almost half of former President Trump’s supporters don’t plan to take a CCP virus vaccine according to a poll by NPR, PBS, and Marist. The poll indicates that 47 percent of people who identified themselves as Trump supporters would not want to be vaccinated when the doses became available to them. Upon widening the demographics,…


Nearly Half of Republicans Won’t Take the CCP Virus Vaccine: Poll

Almost half of former President Trump’s supporters don’t plan to take a CCP virus vaccine according to a poll by NPR, PBS, and Marist. The poll indicates that 47 percent of people who identified themselves as Trump supporters would not want to be vaccinated when the doses became available to them. Upon widening the demographics,…


Trudeau Says Ramped up Vaccine Deliveries to Bring 1M Pfizer Doses per Week to May 10

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Pfizer has guaranteed delivery of at least 1 million COVID−19 vaccine doses per week starting later this month and lasting into early May. Trudeau says the updated delivery schedule begins March 22 and runs to May 10. He says one million doses of Pfizer−BioNTech vaccines every seven days is “going…


YouTube Has Removed Over 800,000 Videos Containing Misleading COVID-19 Information: Spokesperson

Google’s YouTube has removed over 800,000 videos that contained false or misleading information regarding COVID-19, a spokesperson told The Epoch Times on Thursday. The removals date back to February 2020. The videos “included claims about COVID-19 vaccinations that contradict local health authorities or the World Health Organization,” a spokeswoman said via email. Approximately 30,000 videos…


Sinopharm Chairman Claims He Received COVID-19 Vaccine One Year Ago, Has Antibodies

Yu Qingming, party chief and chairman of Sinopharm, told Chinese state media on March 4 that he and others at the firm’s management received CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccines a year ago and still have a high level of antibodies. His claim ignited a heated discussion over the origins of the virus strains and…


South Korea Extends Use of AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine to People Aged 65 and Over

SEOUL—South Korea will extend vaccination for people aged 65 years and older with AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine to ramp up its immunisation drive, Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun told a government meeting on Thursday. The country has been rolling out the vaccine since the last week of February, beginning with the elderly and health workers, but had…


West Virginia’s Justice Announces 168 Unreported COVID-19 Deaths

West Virginia’s governor on Wednesday announced 168 deaths involving COVID-19 that have previously gone unreported. Officials learned that 70 facilities across the state had not reported all of the COVID-related deaths at their facilities, Gov. Jim Justice said during a press conference. That included people who died at their homes and died in hospitals. “Now,…


Canada Open to the Idea of Vaccine Passports: Health Minister

Health Minister Patty Hajdu says the federal government is open to the idea of introducing a vaccine passport in Canada. During an interview on CTV’s Question Period on March 7, Hajdu said Ottawa is “certainly working on the idea of vaccine passports with our G7 partners.” “I was on a call with my G7 health…


US Economy to Grow Twice as Fast as Earlier Predicted: OECD

America’s economy will grow twice as fast compared to earlier forecasts, a new report predicts, resting its optimistic outlook on the huge dose of fiscal stimulus and accelerating vaccine rollout. “The significant fiscal stimulus in the United States, along with faster vaccination, could boost U.S. GDP growth by over three percentage points this year, with…