Category: Vaccine

Hundreds Sent to Emergency Room After Getting COVID-19 Vaccines

Over 1,000 people injected with a new COVID-19 vaccine have experienced an adverse event, with hundreds being taken to emergency rooms. One patient in Michigan on Dec. 16, 2020, became lightheaded and dizzy, and experienced chest tightness and hand tingling. She repeatedly told doctors, “I think I am having a panic attack.” She was sent…


Nebraska Gov. Says Illegal Immigrants at Meatpacking Plants Won’t Be Getting COVID-19 Vaccine

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts said at a news conference Monday that illegal immigrants at meatpacking plants won’t be getting the COVID-19 vaccine. Ricketts’s remark came in response to a question if illegal immigrants employed at such facilities would be part of groups of workers getting inoculated under Nebraska’s vaccination program. “Illegal immigrants are not permitted…


Farage Suggests Tony Blair as Vaccine Rollout Tsar

Nigel Farage, who recently repurposed his Brexit Party to challenge the UK’s handling of the pandemic, says that the rollout of vaccines needs fresh thinking from outside the government. Leading the vaccine rollout, Farage suggested, could be none other than a long-standing political nemesis: former prime minister Tony Blair. “Much as I don’t like Tony…


Advocates Call for Faster Vaccinations of Long-Term-Care Residents and Workers

OTTAWA—Experts who advocate for improvements to long-term care in Canada say the provinces need to move faster to vaccinate residents and the people who look after them. Canada’s overall vaccination rollout is being questioned with more than 420,000 doses now received, but only about one-quarter of those injected. And long-term-care residents, who have paid the…


Newsom Says Just One Percent of Californians Vaccinated: ‘It’s Gone Too Slowly’

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that only about one percent of California’s 40 million residents have received a COVID-19 vaccine, an immunization rate that he decried as “not good enough.” Newsom made the remarks at a briefing on Monday, during which he said the number of new COVID-19 infections on Sunday was nearly 30,000,…


The Nation Speaks (Jan. 4): Rep. Chris Miller, John Strand, Jonathan Koeppe, Karyn Turk, Bob Knee, and Darren Beattie at Turning Point USA Student Action Summit

In this special episode of The Nation Speaks, we compiled some of the highlights from our interviews at Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in West Palm Beach, Florida. Tune in to see Illinois State Representative Chris Miller (R); John Strand, communications director for America’s Frontline Doctors; Jonathan Koeppe, host of the “Logic and Common…


Newsom Says State is Looking To Speed COVID Vaccine Administrations

LOS ANGELES (CNS)—Gov. Gavin Newsom said today the state is working to accelerate the administration of COVID-19 vaccines across the state, including expanding the number of distribution sites and the types of people who can give the shots. Newsom said the state has received nearly 1.3 million doses of the vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna,…


UK Military Helping Testing and Vaccine Rollout in Biggest Peacetime Operation

Over 5,000 members of the UK military are now involved in tackling the CCP virus, from testing to vaccine rollout, in what the Ministry of Defence describes as their biggest ever peacetime operation. More members of the armed forces are now involved than during the previous spring peak of the pandemic. On Monday, 800 soldiers…


India Approves AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine, Local Vaccine

India’s drug regulator on Sunday announced that it had approved two COVID-19 vaccines, one developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca.


Health Minister Hunt Praises NSW, Victoria Over Virus Outbreak Response

The federal government has applauded New South Wales and Victoria’s responses to fresh COVID-19 outbreaks while urging Victoria to allow its residents back home. The recent outbreaks in NSW could have been on a “vastly larger scale” than the disastrous second wave in Victoria, federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said on Sunday, describing advice from…