Category: AMERICA

West Point Military Academy Reimposes Travel Restrictions on Unvaccinated Cadets

Unvaccinated cadets at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, are facing travel restrictions again, despite the military lifting its COVID-19 vaccine mandate earlier this month, according to reports. Military attorney R. Davis Younts told Just the News on Jan. 30 that reimposing the restrictions despite the mandate being dropped by the Department of Defense “feels like coercion” to…


West Point Reimposes Travel Restrictions on Unvaccinated Cadets

Unvaccinated cadets at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, are facing travel restrictions again, despite the military lifting its COVID-19 vaccine mandate earlier this month, according to reports. Military attorney R. Davis Younts told Just the News on Jan. 30 that reimposing the restrictions despite the mandate being dropped by the Department of Defense “feels like coercion” to…


House Panel Pulls Plug Fast-Tracking Debate to End Pandemic Orders

President Joe Biden says his administration will end the three-year COVID-19 public health emergency on May 11 but Republican leaders in the United States House of Representatives aim to declare it over as soon as Feb. 1. The newly constituted GOP-controlled House Rules Committee cleared four pandemic-related bills during four hours of hearings on Jan….


Andrew Cuomo’s Team Denies Working on COVID-19 Memoir at Height of Pandemic

Former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has denied new allegations that he worked on his memoir “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic” during the height of the titular COVID-19 pandemic. Cuomo’s memoir earned a $5.1 million book deal. The chapters of Cuomo’s book are formatted with a date, followed by the number…


Biden Admin Plans to End COVID-19 Emergency Declarations on May 11

The Biden administration has informed Congress it plans to end national COVID-19 emergency declarations on May 11. The move would shift the U.S. government’s response for managing COVID-19 back to the normal authorities given to federal agencies, with the virus to be considered as endemic. The COVID-19 pandemic was declared a national emergency at the start of…


Federal Agency Warns: No COVID-19 ‘Pre-Exposure’ Drugs Are Currently Authorized in US

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Monday advised that people who are immunocompromised should take precautions after a COVID-19 treatment’s emergency use authorization was withdrawn last week, noting that there is currently no pre-exposure prophylaxis authorized for COVID-19. In a revised statement published on Jan. 30, the agency said that “there is no authorized…


WHO Says COVID-19 Is Still a Global Health Emergency, at ‘Transition Point’

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday stated that the COVID-19 pandemic is still an emergency—three years after it started spreading worldwide from China. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that he hoped the world would transition from the emergency phase in 2023. But his United Nations-backed agency indicated that it’s not time yet. “We…


CDC Acknowleges Overcounting COVID-19 Hospitalizations but Suggests It Doesn’t Overcount Deaths

The U.S. government overcounts COVID-19 hospitalizations, officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say, but the agency suggested it does not overcount deaths. COVID-19 hospitalizations listed on the CDC’s data tracker webpage, which is utilized by a wide variety of health officials, journalists, and others, include three types of hospitalizations, the CDC…


CDC Acknowleges Overcounting COVID-19 Hospitalizations

The U.S. government overcounts COVID-19 hospitalizations, officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say, but the agency suggested it does not overcount deaths. COVID-19 hospitalizations listed on the CDC’s data tracker webpage, which is utilized by a wide variety of health officials, journalists, and others, include three types of hospitalizations, the CDC…


CDC Acknowledges Overcounting COVID-19 Hospitalizations

The U.S. government overcounts COVID-19 hospitalizations, officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say, but the agency suggested it does not overcount deaths. COVID-19 hospitalizations listed on the CDC’s data tracker webpage, which is utilized by a wide variety of health officials, journalists, and others, include three types of hospitalizations, the CDC…