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President Biden Has a “Cold”

MEDPAGE TODAY – Omicron is now in at least 17 states, and the CDC director said that number is likely to rise. Over the weekend, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Washington, Wisconsin, Missouri, Louisiana, and Georgia all reported their first cases. (Forbes) Seventeen people aboard a cruise ship now docked in New Orleans tested positive for COVID, including one with the Omicron variant. (Washington Post) While the Omicron variant is not the common cold, a pre-print found the two...

de Blasio Announces Vaccine Mandate For All

NEW YORK (AP) — All New York City employers will have to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for their workers under new rules announced Monday by Mayor Bill de Blasio. The vaccine mandate for private businesses will take effect Dec. 22 and is aimed at preventing a spike in COVID-19 infections during the holiday season and the colder months, the Democratic mayor said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." de Blasio said: "We in New York City have decided to...

Biden Mandates Going Nowhere Fast

Associated Press – Millions of health care workers across the U.S. were supposed to have their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by this coming Monday under a mandate issued by President Joe Biden's administration. Thanks to legal challenges, they won't have to worry about it, at least for now. Same goes for a Jan. 4 deadline set by the administration for businesses with at least 100 employees to ensure their workers are vaccinated or...

Federal Prison, Large Debt For Man Who Put Razor Blades In Pizza Dough

Portland Press Herald – A Dover man who pleaded guilty to inserting razor blades into raw balls of pizza dough at a Saco, Maine, supermarket last year will spend 4 years and 9 months in prison and must pay the company nearly $230,000 in restitution. Nicholas Mitchell, 39, apologized to his family, the community and Hannaford customers during a tearful sentencing hearing Thursday in U.S. District Court in Portland, Maine. He pleaded guilty in June...

“F*** The Opinionated Karen’s”: Abortion Advocates Amp Up Rhetoric

"If they overturn abortion rights I swear to God I will lose all faith in this country altogether and I will pack my children up and leave this God forsaken country. I'm already sick and tired of the racist and sexist ass mother fuckers all over the place the last thing we need is for the religious to get control over our wombs and everything else too. F*** the religious and the opinionated Karen's...

Conservatives Eye Federal Shutdown Over Vaccine Mandates

The federal government could be heading for a temporary shutdown, with Republicans poised to stall a must-pass funding bill in their effort to force a debate in Congress on rolling back the Biden administration's COVID-19 vaccine mandates for some workers.

Biden HIV/AIDS Strategy Calls Racism ‘Public Health Threat’

The Biden administration in its new HIV/AIDS strategy calls racism "a public health threat" that must be fully recognized as the world looks to end the epidemic.

Judge Halts Federal Vaccine Mandate For Health Workers In Ten States

NEW HAMPSHIRE UNION-LEADER – A federal judge blocked the government on Monday from mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for health care workers in New Hampshire and nine other states. The Biden administration required vaccines for employees of facilities receiving federal Medicare and Medicaid dollars, impacting nursing homes along with hospitals and medical centers. Employees were to have been required to receive either their first dose of a two-shot vaccine or the Johnson & Johnson one-shot vaccine by...

Couple Pulled Off Plane After Fleeing Quarantine

Dutch authorities have isolated 61 people who tested positive for COVID-19 on two arriving flights originating from South Africa, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021. Authorities are carrying out further investigations to see if any of the travelers have the omicron variant.

‘All-Or-Nothing’ Abortion Case Reaches Supreme Court

Both sides are telling the Supreme Court there’s no middle ground in Wednesday’s showdown over abortion. The justices can either reaffirm the constitutional right to an abortion or wipe it away altogether.

Big Pharma Fast-Tracks Omicron Vaccines

The World Health Organization on Friday said the new strain, named omicron, is a “variant of concern” that may pose a higher risk of reinfection than past mutations of the virus. Pfizer and BioNTech said they are investigating omicron, first labeled B.1.1.529, and can adapt their vaccine quickly if needed.

High Alert: World Races To Contain New COVID Variant

A host of countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada Iran, Japan, Thailand and the United States, joined others, including the European Union and the U.K. in impose restrictions on southern African countries in response to warnings over the transmissibility of the new variant — against the advice of the World Health Organization.

Biden’s Covid Death Milestone: WSJ

WALL STREET JOURNAL – President Biden may not recall what he said during a 2020 campaign debate last fall, but Americans should: “Anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as President of the United States of America.”  At the time the U.S. had recorded 220,000 Covid deaths. Covid deaths this year have now surpassed the toll in 2020 with 350,000 since Inauguration Day. It would seem that Mr. Biden has done no...

CVS, Walgreens, Walmart Found Liable In ‘Milestone’ Opioids Lawsuit

KAISER HEALTH NEWS – The verdict in the closely watched Ohio case comes as the pharmacy giants face thousands of lawsuits filed by communities across the U.S. for their role in the national opioid epidemic. The companies say they did nothing wrong and will appeal this ruling. AP: Jury Holds Pharmacies Responsible For Role In Opioid Crisis CVS, Walgreens and Walmart pharmacies recklessly distributed massive amounts of pain pills in two Ohio counties, a federal jury...
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