BEIJING (AP) — In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, the country's top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing them to get a boost.
Chinese vaccines "don't have very high protection rates," said the director of the China Centers for Disease Control, Gao Fu, at a conference Saturday in the southwestern city of Chengdu.
Beijing has distributed hundreds of millions of doses abroad while...
HEADLINE USA – A New Hampshire high-school track coach said he was fired for refusing to make his athletes wear face masks during outdoor competitions.
The state athletic association required that schools make all their athletes wear masks during practices and competitions.
But calling the mandate “senseless, irrational, cowardice bulls–t,” Pembroke Academy track-and-field coach Bradley Keyes refused to enforce it.
“I’ll come straight to the point. I will not put kids on the track and tell them...
Opinion by Letitia James and William Tong | April 8, 2021
Letitia James is the attorney general of New York. William Tong is the attorney general of Connecticut.
THE WASHINGTON POST – President Biden has announced that every adult in the nation will be eligible for the covid-19 vaccine as of April 19. The availability of safe and effective vaccines should mark the end of the pandemic, and the start of our recovery.
But vaccine availability means...
Associated Press – Migrant families will be held at hotels in the Phoenix area in response to a growing number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities said Friday, another step in the Biden administration's rush to set up temporary space for them.
U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema was told that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will occupy "several hotels along the southwest border, including in Chandler and Phoenix," her office said in a statement. Chandler...
The Supreme Court is telling California that it can't enforce coronavirus-related restrictions that have limited home-based religious worship including Bible studies and prayer meetings.
OPINION By John Podhoretz, April 7, 2021
THE NEW YORK POST – It was said of the late actress Sylvia Miles, who spent her nights going from event to event in New York, that she would “attend the opening of an envelope.”
US government virus guru Anthony Fauci has very little in common with Sylvia Miles:
He wasn’t nominated twice for an Oscar, for example, and he has never, to my knowledge, appeared in the nude. But...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A joint China-World Health Organization (WHO) study into COVID-19 has provided no credible answers about how the pandemic began, and more rigorous investigations are required - with or without Beijing’s involvement, a group of international scientists and researchers said on Wednesday.
The joint study, released last week, said the likeliest transmission route for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, involved bats and other wildlife. It all but ruled out the possibility it...
Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, has died at the age of 99, Buckingham Palace has announced.
A statement from Buckingham Palace said:
‘It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
‘His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle.’
Other members of the Royal Family have been informed of his death and it is expected...
Officials say the restaurant and bar located on Magnolia Boulevard has repeatedly defied coronavirus health orders to close, including its refusal to stop offering outdoor dining when all in-person was banned in Los Angeles County.
Previously undisclosed internal documents and interviews with current and former federal officials and former company employees depict a factory operation that was ill-equipped to take on such a mammoth manufacturing task, despite Emergent’s having received a $163 million federal contract.
A South Florida doctor who died about two weeks after he got Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine died in a manner that has been categorized as natural, an official with the medical examiner’s office said Wednesday.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS – Tiger Woods’ SUV was traveling between 84 and 87 miles per hour when it struck a raised median, and 75 miles per hour when it collided with a tree, during the February rollover crash that left the golf great badly injured, officials said Wednesday.
An investigation determined the primary cause of the Feb. 23 crash in Rolling Hills Estates, Calif., was:
“driving at a speed unsafe for the road conditions and...
The study, from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suggests that people who get a Moderna or Pfizer shot are nearly 100% protected against the coronavirus, and don’t shed the virus if infected.