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Apr 14 2022
News
Pfizer says booster in children 5-11 raises antibodies against omicron
A booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine raised antibody levels in children ages 5 to 11, the company said Thursday.
The additional shot, given six months after the two-dose primary series, led to a sixfold increase in antibodies against the original strain of the coronavirus.
The clinical trial of the booster shot included 140 children ages 5 through 11. In a
NBC News DigitalMar 15 2022
Opinion
America's trucker convoy is a liberal punchline. But it shouldn't be.
It’s hard to take the "People’s Convoy" trucker caravan seriously. Starting as a protest against Covid mask and vaccine restrictions, it launched after most mandates had been lifted. Many of the convoy’s big rigs, pickups and SUVs are covered with QAnon conspiracy references. Convoy organizers promised to shut down Washington D.C. Instead, they parked their trucks at a stock-car racetrack in
NBC News DigitalNov 30 2020
News
Moderna to ask FDA for emergency use authorization
Moderna announced that it would seek an emergency use authorization, or EUA, from the Food and Drug Administration on Monday after its phase three study found its coronavirus vaccine candidate to be 94% effective.
Moderna said its vaccine was 100% effective at preventing severe cases of COVID-19.
"This positive primary analysis confirms the ability of our vaccine to prevent COVID
Washington ExaminerMar 15 2022
News
White House cries poverty, threatens to cancel COVID antibody order unless Congress OKs $22.5B
The Biden administration said Tuesday that it’s prepared to cancel an order for COVID-19 antibodies next week because it needs more money — and that the US could run out of vaccine booster shots if Congress doesn’t approve $22.5 billion in new funds.
Republicans, meanwhile, say billions remain unspent from prior bills.
The stark warnings come after Senate Republicans, citing high
New York Post (News)Feb 08 2022
News
Canadian truckers shut down busiest border crossing in North America, back up Detroit roads
The busiest border crossing in North America was shut down as the Canadian truckers protesting their country's vaccine mandates made it to the Detroit-Windsor border, causing traffic on the highway to Detroit.
"It doesn’t make sense as they shouldn’t be blocking the borders or the roads," Canadian truck driver Nav Aulch told Click on Detroit.
Traffic began building on I-75 and
Fox News DigitalOct 14 2021
News
U.S. Aims to Resume Regular Evacuation Flights From Afghanistan
The State Department plans to resume regular evacuation flights from Afghanistan before the end of the year to help U.S. citizens, residents and some visa applicants leave the country, a senior State Department official said.
The small number of U.S. citizens and thousands of Afghans left behind after the chaotic evacuation effort in the final weeks of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan
Wall Street Journal (News)Mar 30 2021
News
As Covid-19 numbers rise, the CDC chief says she's scared about where US is headed. But it's not too late to change country's course
New Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are beginning to rise in the US again, one of the country's top health leaders said Monday.
The latest findings, shared by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, may just be the start of what experts have for weeks warned about: another surge. A surge that could come just as the country inches closer to
CNN DigitalAug 19 2021
News
You Staying at Home Is the Future Unvaccinated-Punishers Want
When it's been a good long while, you forget one of the primary benefits of travel: seeing and experiencing wholly different approaches to the same human problems we contend with back home. For my 6-year-old in France the first half of August, that meant mostly one thing: Kids of elementary school age there almost never wear masks.
"Can we stay in France until coronavirus is over?" she
ReasonMay 19 2021
Analysis
The South could still become a summertime Covid-19 hot spot
All of a sudden, it seems like America is on the verge of liberation from Covid-19. Nearly half of all Americans have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has loosened recommendations for the fully vaccinated, particularly its mask guidance. States have followed the CDC’s lead, loosening their mask mandates and social distancing
VoxJan 18 2021
Opinion
How Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds of Thousands of Americans
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the media have spilled barrels of ink over mistakes by the federal government. We've heard endlessly about the failure to quickly ramp up testing, the confusion over mask-wearing and the debates over proper lockdown policy. But when the history of this time is written, the fundamental mistake made by the United States government won't be rhetorical
Ben Shapiro