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“Freedom Not To Wear A Mask”

"Welcome to the Freedom Cafe! "We trust you to make your own choices if you want to wear a face mask. "And, in the same spirit of individual liberty, we allow our staff to make their own choices about the safety protocols they prefer to follow as they prepare and serve your food. "We encourage employees to wash their hands after using the bathroom, but understand that some people may be allergic to certain soaps or...

Florida Rule Leads To Death Of Nurse’s Unborn Baby

NBC NEWS – A pregnant Florida nurse said she was assisting her patient when another patient came into the room and shoved her against a wall, resulting in the death of her unborn child. The alleged attack happened Saturday evening in the behavioral unit at Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital. The nurse, who was just over eight months pregnant, told Longwood police officers that she was giving her female patient medication when the woman began screaming....

Rand Paul To Fauci: “Admit It”

Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci had the latest in their series of tense exchanges Thursday, when the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee.

Unvaccinated May Face Steep Financial Penalties

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority no longer pays a $500,000 death benefit to the families of subway, bus and commuter rail workers who die of covid if the workers were unvaccinated at the time of death. Other employers have similar concerns about providing death or other benefits to employees who refuse to be vaccinated.

GOP Sens. Move To Nullify Biden Vaccine Mandate

FOX NEWS EXCLUSIVE: More than three dozen Senate Republicans are moving to formally disapprove and nullify President Biden’s vaccine mandate on private employees Wednesday under the Congressional Review Act — the official process for Congress to eliminate an executive branch rule. Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana is leading 41 Republican senators on Wednesday to "strike down" Biden’s rule, which mandates employees — at private businesses with 100 workers or more — to receive COVID-19 vaccines. Republicans...

Jesse Jackson Hospitalized After Fall

CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson was hospitalized Monday in Washington, D.C. The 80-year-old Chicago civil rights leader was entering a campus building when he fell and hit his head, according to Jackson spokesman Frank Watkins. He was on campus helping Howard University students who are protesting living conditions, according to a spokesman. Jackson's staff took him to Howard University Hospital for various tests including a CT scan which came back normal. Watkins said...

Syphilis Is Resurging Due To “Public Health’s Funding Crisis”: NPR

SHOTS, Health News From NPR – When Mai Yang is looking for a patient, she travels light. She dresses deliberately — not too formal, so she won't be mistaken for a police officer; not too casual, so people will look past her tiny 4-foot-10 stature and youthful face and trust her with sensitive health information. Always, she wears closed-toed shoes, "just in case I need to run." Yang carries a stack of cards issued by...

200,000 Kidney Disease Cases Tied To Global Warming

The world’s largest study of the impact of temperature changes and kidney disease claims that 7.4 percent of all hospitalizations for renal disease can be attributed to an increase in temperature.

Supreme Court Takes Up Texas Abortion Ban

The Supreme Court is taking up challenges to a Texas law that has virtually ended abortion in the nation’s second largest state after six weeks of pregnancy. The justices are hearing arguments Monday, Nov. 1, in two cases over whether abortion providers or the Justice Department can mount federal court challenges to the law, which has an unusual enforcement scheme its defenders argue shield it from federal court review.

Experts Remain Divided On COVID Origins

YAHOO! NEWS – An unclassified version of an intelligence community assessment on the origins of COVID-19 released Friday afternoon shows that various agencies still don’t agree on whether the pandemic began from a laboratory incident in Wuhan, China, or was caused by a natural crossover from animals to humans. In the spring, President Biden ordered the intelligence community to conduct a 90-day review looking at the pandemic’s origins in China, amid growing debate and questions...

Pharma Campaign Cash Delivered to Key Lawmakers With Surgical Precision

Kaiser Health News – The Biden administration and Congress are embroiled in high-stakes haggling over what urgent priorities will make it into the ever-shrinking social spending bill. But for the pharmaceutical industry there is one agenda: Heading off Medicare drug price negotiation, which it considers an existential threat to its business model. The siren call to contain rising drug costs helped catapult Democrats to power, and the idea is popular among voters regardless of their...

Supreme Court Backs Vaccine Mandate, 6-3

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from health care workers in Maine to block a vaccine mandate that went into effect Friday. Three conservative justices noted their dissents. The state is not offering a religious exemption to hospital and nursing home workers who risk losing their jobs if they are not vaccinated. Only New York and Rhode Island also have vaccine mandates for health care workers that lack religious exemptions. Both...

UN Leader Hits “Immoral” Vaccine Policies

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday challenged the G-20 leaders to narrow an "immoral gap" on global vaccine distribution and pandemic recovery aid.

Court Blocks Firing Of Unvaxxed Troops

KHN Morning Briefing – Roll Call reports that military officials may be reversing plans to immediately fire unvaccinated troops once deadlines pass. Separately, a district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday that prevents both civilian and active-duty military plaintiffs from being terminated after they sued the Biden administration over religious exemptions to covid-19 vaccines. Roll Call: Pentagon May Not Immediately Fire Vaccine Resisters Facing criticism that mandates for coronavirus vaccinations could force the Defense...

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