THE HILL – It is inevitable that some people who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will still get a "breakthrough" infection, Anthony Fauci said Monday, because no vaccine is 100 percent effective.
A breakthrough infection is when a person contracts an illness despite being vaccinated against it.
Fauci noted that there will be hundreds, and maybe thousands of instances of completely vaccinated people getting infected with COVID-19.
The key is to compare the small number...
Rand Paul calls Fauci a 'petty tyrant'
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) escalated his feud with the federal government's leading infectious diseases expert on Monday, calling Anthony Fauci a "petty tyrant" for suggesting Americans vaccinated against the coronavirus should not eat or drink indoors.
"Fauci continues to ignore 100 years of vaccine science," Paul wrote in a tweet Monday morning. "His only real theme is 'do what I say' even when it makes no sense."
Americans who have...
Nearly 40% of US Marines are declining Covid-19 vaccinations, according to data provided to CNN on Friday by the service, the first branch to disclose service-wide numbers on acceptance and declination.
U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, will be "effectively blind" for about a month after he was rushed into emergency eye surgery to treat a detached retina, the lawmaker revealed on Saturday.
Georgia and Colorado are the latest states to temporarily shut down a vaccine site after eight people suffered adverse reactions to the Johnson & Johnson shot.
This suggests the vaccine is less effective against the South African variant, compared with the original coronavirus and a variant first identified in Britain that has come to comprise nearly all COVID-19 cases in Israel, the researchers said.
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...
THE HILL – According to data from Johns Hopkins University, five states make up 44 percent of all new infections in the U.S. between March 29 and April 4, or about 197,500 cases out of about 452,000 cases nationwide.
New York is the top hot spot, recording 52,922 cases last week, averaging about 7560 new cases per day, which is about 12 percent of the U.S.’s total cases.
Next up is Michigan, recording 47,036 new cases...
The New York State “Excelsior Pass” vaccine passport system already has the markings of a five alarm dumpster fire. It has massive security flaws, a shrinking customer base by design, it remains incredibly impractical, and it’s incredibly easy to manipulate.
The president of the Southern Baptist Convention posted a photo on Facebook last week of him getting the COVID-19 vaccine. It drew more than 1,100 comments — many of them voicing admiration for the Rev. J.D. Greear, and many others assailing him.
