John Roberts questions administration’s concession COVID mandate is a ‘work-around’

John Roberts questions administration’s concession COVID mandate is a ‘work-around’
Supreme Court’s majority’s questions lean away from Biden’s demands By Bob Unruh Published January 7, 2022 at 5:30pm U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, nominated by President George W. Bush Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday cited the Biden administration’s admission that his COVID mandate for Americans is a “work-around,” a path that essentially goes around what the law would require or allow.… Read the rest

Pope Francis calls for widespread vaccination

Pope Francis calls for widespread vaccination
He never meets with any experts holding opposing views. Is that any way to make a responsible decision affecting over 1 billion people? Steve Kirsch, January 11th, 2022 The Washington Post reports: In a sweeping speech on the pandemic and other global issues, Pope Francis on Monday called for widespread vaccination in all countries and suggested the global coronavirus response was being complicated by “baseless information or poorly documented facts.”… Read the rest

Novak Djokovic: Having Covid gave tennis star vaccine exemption – lawyers

Novak Djokovic: Having Covid gave tennis star vaccine exemption – lawyers
Tennis star Novak Djokovic had a vaccine exemption to enter Australia after a Covid infection on 16 December, his lawyers say in court documents. Djokovic was denied entry to Australia after landing in Melbourne this week to play in the Australian Open. The world’s top ranked tennis player is currently in an immigration detention centre ahead of a court case on Monday.… Read the rest

More Kids Dying From Vaccines Than From COVID, Nurse Tells Louisiana Lawmakers

More Kids Dying From Vaccines Than From COVID, Nurse Tells Louisiana Lawmakers
A registered nurse who last month testified at a hearing of the Louisiana House Health and Welfare Committee said her hospital is seeing “terrifying” reactions to COVID vaccines, but hospital officials are failing to report them. By  Jeremy Loffredo   A Louisiana nurse last month told state lawmakers her hospital is seeing “terrifying” reactions to COVID vaccines, but hospital officials are failing to report them.… Read the rest

Justice Sotomayor Exaggerated the Number of Severe COVID-19 Cases Among Children

Justice Sotomayor Exaggerated the Number of Severe COVID-19 Cases Among Children
“We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition and many on ventilators,” said the justice, wrongly. ROBBY SOAVE | 1.7.2022 2:36 PM (Pool via CNP / SplashNews/Newscom) The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Friday on whether to prevent the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for private workplaces from going into effect. As expected, the right-leaning justices seemed skeptical that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) had the authority to craft such a regulation without new input from Congress, whereas the three liberal justices appeared to believe the mandate was necessary given the public health emergency posed by COVID-19.… Read the rest

Which Fully Vaccinated Adults Are Most at Risk of Severe COVID?

Which Fully Vaccinated Adults Are Most at Risk of Severe COVID?
— Study examines which factors did, and didn’t, play a role in risk by Molly Walker, Deputy Managing Editor, MedPage Today January 6, 2022 A significant proportion of all fully vaccinated adults who died of COVID-19 had at least four risk factors associated with severe outcomes, researchers found. In addition to older age (65 and up) and being immunosuppressed, having chronic kidney, cardiac, pulmonary, neurologic, or liver diseases, as well as diabetes, were all associated with higher odds of severe COVID outcomes, and 77.8% of fully vaccinated adults who died had at least four of these risk factors, reported Sameer Kadri, MD, of the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and colleagues in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.… Read the rest

Triple-vaxxed, home-bound Whoopi Goldberg caught COVID, tells ‘View’ co-hosts ‘it was a shock’ — then claims it’s what America will be facing ‘unless everybody gets vaccinated’

Triple-vaxxed, home-bound Whoopi Goldberg caught COVID, tells ‘View’ co-hosts ‘it was a shock’ — then claims it’s what America will be facing ‘unless everybody gets vaccinated’
CHRIS FIELD January 06, 2022     So, are we calling fully vaxxed and boosted people who get COVID-19 “breakthrough cases” anymore or not? With the rise and surge of the Omicron variant, report after report has shown that vaccinated folks can still get COVID — a fact that is surprising many, both on social media and in Big Media, despite the fact that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky finally admitted last summer that vaccinated people can catch and transmit the coronavirus.… Read the rest

Judge Gives FDA Just Over 8 Months to Produce Pfizer’s Safety Data

Judge Gives FDA Just Over 8 Months to Produce Pfizer’s Safety Data
The decision rejects the FDA’s request to release the data over what would be 75 years By Mimi Nguyen Ly January 6, 2022 A federal judge on Thursday ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to produce, at a rate of 55,000 pages per month, the documents it relied on to license the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The rate of 55,000 pages a month would mean the FDA has just over eight months to fully produce all of Pfizer’s pre-licensure safety data.… Read the rest

New York Times: Omicron risk similar to the flu

New York Times: Omicron risk similar to the flu
‘COVID increasingly resembles the kind of health risk that people accept every day’ By Art Moore Published January 5, 2022 at 6:29pm (Pixabay image) A New York Times columnist who has been closely following the COVID-19 pandemic observes that the data indicate the new omicron variant is roughly at the same risk level as the seasonal flu. David Leonhardt writes that the “latest evidence about Covid is largely positive.”… Read the rest