Tag: mandates

Federal Vaccine Program Hasn’t Helped Those Whose Lives Were Altered by Covid Shot

Angela Marie Wulbrecht jumped at the first chance to get a COVID-19 vaccine, driving three hours from her Santa Rosa, California, home to a mass-vaccination site on Jan. 19. Twelve minutes after her Moderna shot, she stumbled into the paramedic tent with soaring blood pressure and a racing heartbeat. And so began a calvary of…


Deep Dive (July 29): Gov. DeSantis Fires Back at New Wave of Virus Mandates

Debate is underway on the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package. The Senate voted to advance it Wednesday night after President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of senators agreed on major parts of the package. Seventeen Republican senators joined Democrats in voting to launch the debate. The lead Republican negotiator says it’s an important first…


Vaccinated Californians Prepare to Ditch Their Masks in Most Settings

Residents of Orange County—and the whole of California, for that matter—will awake to a less restrictive world June 15 when the state lifts most of its pandemic-related restrictions. “I hate this phrase ‘reopening the economy’ because the economy has been doing fine. Just look at California’s tax receipts,” Andrew Noymer, a University of California–Irvine professor…


CDC Chief: ‘We’re Not Counting on Vaccine Mandates at All’

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the CDC, said Sunday that the federal government is not “counting on vaccine mandates at all.”