Justice Barrett Blocked Attempt to Stop Indiana University From Applying Vaccination Mandate
Recently appointed Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett on Aug. 12 declined a request to block Indiana University’s requirement that all students must get COVID-19 vaccinations by Aug. 23. CNN Politics reported that Barrett’s move...
Florida Lawmaker’s Bill Seeks to Ban Vaccine Passports for Domestic Air Travel
Republican Senator Rick Scott from Florida has introduced a bill that seeks to block the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) from mandating proof of vaccination to fly domestically. The TSA is an agency of the U.S....
COVID-19 Report: Breastfeeding Baby Dies After Mother Receives Pfizer Vaccine
Ever since Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines received emergency use authorization (EUA) in the United States, there has been widespread concern about their safety in pregnant women and newborn babies. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine EUA document...
UAE Strengthens Ties With China Through Sinopharm Vaccine – May Require Three Doses to be Effective
China is strengthening its ties to the U.A.E. by setting up mass production of the Sinopharm vaccine, which is already being widely used in the U.A.E.’s vaccination roll-out. Some of the U.A.E. residents who received...
Pentagon Scientists Invent Microchip Capable of Detecting Coronavirus When Implanted Inside a Human Body
A virus outbreak on the USS Theodore Roosevelt has inspired Pentagon scientists from a secretive unit called Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to create a special microchip that can be inserted underneath the skin...
Drug Overdoses Kill Twice as Many People as COVID-19 in San Francisco in 2020
The latest preliminary data published by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for San Francisco shows that over twice as many Americans died from drug overdoses than from COVID-19 in 2020. The cause of...
Nation’s First COVID-19 Passport in New York Faces Criticism
At the end of March, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the launch of a new digital certificate called the “Excelsior Pass,” which offers proof of the user’s Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) test results and...
Democrat Mayor Supports DeSantis After ’60 Minutes’ Fake News Scandal
The mayor of Palm Beach, Democrat Dave Kerner, has come out in support of Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis after a deceptively edited ’60 minutes’ report on CBS insinuated that the governor had extended a...
Eight-Year-Old Boy Mistakenly Vaccinated for COVID-19 in Texas
An 8-year-old boy from Dallas, Texas, has accidentally received a COVID-19 vaccine. The U.S. government only uses three vaccines in the country – Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and Moderna. According to the emergency use authorizations,...
Germany: Merkel Issues Rare Apology for Proposing Easter Lockdown, Elderly Find Vaccine Bureaucracy Difficult
German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a rare gesture recently when she apologized for having proposed a five-day lockdown during the upcoming Easter holidays. She changed her stance just 33 hours after announcing the lockdown. The...
5 Things to Know Before Getting a Coronavirus Vaccine
Updated March 28, 2021 With the recent emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna coronavirus vaccines in Dec. 2020 and Johnson & Johnson (J&J)/Janssen vaccine in Feb. 2021, hope for the possible end of...
The Third Wave: Italy Enters Lockdown Amidst Infection Surge, Plans on Making Russian Vaccine
Half of Italy has entered into a new lockdown after a spike in COVID-19 infections raised worries about the pandemic getting out of control. The recent lockdowns are applicable in 9 of the country’s 20...