PLUS: South Africa scraps isolation for COVID positive people with no symptoms
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark on Tuesday became one of the first European Union countries to scrap most pandemic restrictions as the Scandinavian country no longer considers the COVID-19 outbreak "a socially critical disease."
The reason for that is that while the omicron variant is surging in Denmark, it's not placing a heavy burden on the health system and the country has a...
Massachusetts health and education leaders said in a letter to the presidents of colleges and universities that they should start returning to “near normal” with the goal “to transition the COVID-19 pandemic into an endemic.”
FOX NEWS – A Washington State Patrol officer who defied a statewide vaccine mandate and signed off for the last time by telling Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee to “kiss my a–” is dead from COVID-19.
Former Trooper Robert LaMay, 51, who served 22 years with the State Patrol and retired last October, died on Friday.
LaMay garnered attention from Americans across the country after he signed off for the last time as an officer and told Washington...
FOX NEWS – U.S. scientists who publicly attributed the COVID-19 pandemic to natural origins rather than human engineering were far less confident in private, transcripts and notes from previous meetings show.
However, conversations between public officials seem to indicate that some experts may have consciously chosen to suppress evidence that could fuel "conspiracists."
According to notes from a February 2020 meeting released by House Republicans, Dr. Robert Garry from Tulane's School of Medicine said:
"I really can't...
A federal judge temporarily halted a South Dakota rule from taking effect that would have made the state one of the hardest places in the U.S. to get abortion pills.
YAHOO! NEWS, WASHINGTON — The top public health authorities in the Biden administration denounced misinformation about the coronavirus vaccines following a falsehood-laden segment on Fox News on Tuesday night that has been widely shared on social media.
Headline USA – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ripped the Biden administration for cancelling emergency-use authorization for Regeneron and Eli Lilly’s monoclonal antibody therapies, according to a press release.
“Without a shred of clinical data to support this action, Biden has forced trained medical professionals to choose between treating their patients or breaking the law,” he said.
The Food and Drug Administration revoked the authorization on Jan. 23 and announced that states would stop receiving shipments.
“This indefensible...
KAISER HEALTH NEWS – The Biden administration withdrew its order that would have required about 84 million private employees to be vaccinated or test weekly for covid. OSHA says it's working on a revised version of the rule.
NBC News: Biden Administration Withdraws Vaccine-Or-Test Mandate For Large Employers
The Biden administration is withdrawing its Covid vaccination-or-test requirement for large employers, citing the Supreme Court's recent decision to block the rule. The Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and...
Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Monday that the anti-vaccination movement in the US is bigger than we realize — and it's allowing disinformation and misinformation to flourish.
AP – Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized Tuesday for suggesting things are worse for people today than they were for Anne Frank, the teenager who died in a Nazi concentration camp after hiding with her family in a secret annex in an Amsterdam house for two years.
Kennedy's comments, made at a Washington rally on Sunday put on by his anti-vaccine nonprofit group, were widely condemned as offensive, outrageous and historically ignorant....
NEW YORK (AP) — From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the top U.S. public health agency has been criticized as too slow to collect and act on new information.
Now, increasingly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is also being criticized for moving too fast.
One year into Dr. Rochelle Walensky's tenure as director, her bid to make the CDC more agile is being challenged by political pressures, vocal scientists and the changing virus...
Pet Dog Rescued From Frozen River by New York Firefighters After It Chased Geese Onto Ice
NEWSWEEK – A pet dog had to be rescued from a frozen river in Plainville, New York, after it chasing geese out onto the ice and getting stuck.
Images taken at the scene of the rescue on Thursday (January 13) and posted by Plainville Fire Department to Facebook showed the small dog, reportedly a Shih Tzu, standing out in the...
(Headline USA) The al-Qaeda-loving British national who took four Jewish people hostage at a Texas synagogue in a 10-hour standoff that ended in his death was checked against law enforcement databases before entering the U.S. but raised no red flags, the White House said.
Malik Faisal Akram, 44, arrived in the U.S. at Kennedy Airport in New York on a tourist visa about two weeks ago, officials said. He spent time in Dallas-area homeless shelters...
Headline USA – New York City police this week were once again arresting citizens who dared defy the draconian vaccine mandates that require health passports to simply enjoy a meal or a night out in the Big Apple.
A group of anti-forced-vax protestors tried to order food at an Olive Garden restaurant in Times Square, but were refused service when they failed to produce the requisite vaccine passport, according to The Blaze.
Under the city’s restrictive...