City Journal – “Seriously people—STOP BUYING MASKS!”
So tweeted then–surgeon general Jerome Adams on February 29, 2020, adding, “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus.”
Two days later, Adams said, “Folks who don’t know how to wear them properly tend to touch their faces a lot and actually can increase the spread of coronavirus.”
Less than a week earlier, on February 25, public-health authorities in the United Kingdom had published...
Pastor George Davis said it's always difficult to go through the grieving process with families in his church. But when seven people died in a two-week span from COVID-19, it presented an unprecedented challenge.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL – Vaccination is increasingly a requirement to be hired, as employers ranging from accounting and software firms to schools and restaurants are asking applicants to be inoculated against Covid-19.
The share of job postings stating that a new hire must be vaccinated have nearly doubled in the past month, according to the job search site Indeed.
The total number remains low, roughly 1,200 postings requiring a vaccination per million in the...
"I'm sorry, I know people must like to have their individual freedom and not be told to do something, but I think we're in such a serious situation now that under certain circumstances mandates should be done." – Dr. Anthony Fauci, Aug 10, 2021
NPR – Dr. Anthony Fauci says COVID-19 vaccines should be mandatory for schoolteachers, citing the need to protect children who are too young to be vaccinated during a pandemic that has...
Teams are now going door to door in New York, Los Angeles, and Puerto Rico to enforce Biden's vaccine rule
Puerto Rico: Nurse Practitioner Takes Covid Shots House to House
KAISER HEALTH NEWS, MAYAGÜEZ, PUERTO RICO — Abigail Matos-Pagán entered a bright-blue house in Mayagüez earlier this summer and was met by Beatriz Gastón, who quietly led the way to her mother’s small room.
Matos-Pagán had come to provide a covid-19 vaccine for Wildelma Gastón, 88, whose...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette – Only eight intensive care unit beds were available in the state Monday when the state's hospitalizations increased by 103 to 1,376, the largest daily increase since the pandemic began.
The number of covid-19 patients in ICU rose by 26 to 509.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson said on Twitter Monday:
"Today’s report shows some very startling numbers.
"We saw the largest single-day increase in hospitalizations and have eclipsed our previous high of COVID hospitalizations. There...
THE HILL – Florida is requesting hundreds of ventilators from the federal government after a surge in COVID-19 across the state.
The request was made Friday for 300 ventilators “to replace expended state stores,” the document said.
It was not clear how the ventilators would be allocated, but they were expected to arrive in the state Monday, according to the outlet.
The request comes as the delta variant spreads mostly among unvaccinated individuals and Florida sees...
Traffic deaths nationwide in 2020 grew about 7.2% to 38,680 even though there was a 13.2% reduction in the number of miles traveled, according to the NHTSA estimates. It was the deadliest year on highways since 2007.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former South Florida talk show host Dick Farrel, known and beloved by fans for his over-the-top right-wing opinions, has died from complications from COVID-19.
On Facebook, Farrel advocated against getting the coronavirus vaccine and was skeptical of Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, and his recommendations concerning the coronavirus.
Friends said after contracting the virus he changed his point of view.
Farrel's close...
Crossing state lines. Pretending to forget ID. Some people are going to intense lengths – even lying about their vaccine status – to dodge a web of Covid rules
BOSTON GLOBE – Rebecca Hart Holder, who has two young children, received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine but has now been trying to receive a booster COVID shot to further protect her family against the Delta variant.
The middle-aged couple had already decided they were going to...
In this Q&A, Dr. John O'Horo, a Mayo Clinic infectious diseases specialist, breaks down what people should know about COVID-19 infection and transmission among people who have been vaccinated for COVID-19.