Category: COVID-19 vaccine

Former New York Teacher Sentenced to Community Service for Illegally Vaccinating Teen

The former New York teacher who was accused of illegally injecting her son’s 17-year-old friend with a COVID-19 vaccine on New Year’s Eve has avoided jail time, according to reports. Laura Russo, then a science teacher at Herricks High School, was arrested on Jan. 1 at her Sea Cliff home, where the illegal injection took…


White House Can’t Mandate COVID Jabs for Federal Contractors: Appeals Court

A federal appeals court on Monday struck down a White House rule requiring anyone employed by a federal contractor to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of government contracts. A three-panel judge of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to affirm a lower court judgment that barred President Joe Biden’s September 2021…


National Guard Serviceman Says He Was Given COVID Jab Instead of Flu Shot

A National Guard serviceman was given a COVID-19 jab instead of a flu shot while in the process of applying for a religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. In November 2021, Matthew Bouchard, a specialist in Maine’s National Guard, who was planning to leave the military a few months later, asked his chain of…


DeSantis Asks Florida Grand Jury to Investigate COVID Vaccine ‘Wrongdoing’

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced significant pushback on Tuesday to the federal public health establishment’s handling of the COVID crisis. DeSantis is petitioning the state’s Supreme Court to impanel a grand jury “to investigate any and all wrongdoings in Florida with respect to the COVID-19 vaccines.” “We’ll be able to get more information and bring…


DeSantis Seeks Florida Grand Jury to Investigate COVID Vaccine ‘Wrongdoing’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said on Dec. 13 he will petition the state’s Supreme Court to impanel a grand jury “to investigate any and all wrongdoings in Florida with respect to the COVID-19 vaccines.” He made the announcement following a roundtable with Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo and a panel of scientists and physicians. “We’ll…


Information of 360,000 People Affected in Ontario COVID-19 Vaccine Data Breach

The Ontario government began notifying about 360,000 people on Friday that their personal information had been part of a COVID-19 vaccine database breach that took place more than a year ago. The breach happened on Nov. 16, 2021 and the Ontario Provincial Police charged two people, including an employee of the province’s vaccine contact centre….


DeSantis Pledges to Hold Vaccine Manufacturers ‘Accountable’

A comment made by Gov. Ron DeSantis during a private Republican Party of Florida event at the Florida Governor’s Mansion has activists across the state abuzz with hope for change they’ve been requesting for more than a year. “We are going to work to hold these manufacturers accountable for this mRNA because they said there…


$1 Billion Worth of Unused COVID Vaccines in Canada Will Expire by Year’s End, Says Auditor General

About $1 billion worth of unused COVID-19 vaccines in Canada are set to expire by the end of 2022 due to an excess supply previously acquired by the federal government, wrote Auditor General Karen Hogan in a performance audit tabled today in the House of Commons. “We found that the Public Health Agency of Canada…


$4.6 Billion in COVID-19 Relief Payments Went to Ineligible Recipients, Says Auditor General

Auditor General Karen Hogan says $4.6 billion of the federal government’s previous COVID-19 relief payments were collected by recipients who didn’t meet the eligibility criteria, and at least another $27.4 billion went to individuals whose eligibility status still requires confirmation. Hogan’s office wrote in a performance audit tabled in the House of Commons on Dec. 6 that the…


Unvaxxed Teacher Wins Workers’ Compensation for Psychological Injury

An Australian teacher terminated from her work after refusing to take a COVID-19 vaccine has won workers’ compensation on the basis that she suffered psychological injury due to her employer’s implementation of the government mandate.  The case is among only a handful of appeals about unfair dismissal caused by the COVID-19 vaccine mandate in Australia…