Category: Health Education

Doctors, Parents Sue HHS Over COVID-19 Vaccine Emergency Use Authorization in Children Under 16

A number of doctors and parents have sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its secretary, Xavier Becerra, in a federal court, seeking to prevent the expansion of the emergency use authorization (EUA) of COVID-19 vaccines from including children under 16 years old. America’s Frontline Doctors—a nonprofit organization—and parents filed a…


18 Cases of Heart Inflammation After COVID-19 Vaccination Reported in Connecticut

A single state has recorded 18 cases of myocarditis in people who received a COVID-19 vaccine. All of the cases in Connecticut required hospitalization. Acting Health Commissioner Dr. Deirdre Gifford told reporters during a virtual press briefing on Monday that the cases have been “rare” and “mild.” But she added later when asked how many…


CDC Investigating Heart Inflammation in COVID-19 Vaccinated Teens, Young Adults

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it is investigating reports of heart inflammation in teenagers and young adults who have received the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccine. Noting that there have been “relatively few” reports of “mild” cases of myocarditis, the agency said that its COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Technical Work Group should…


Fauci: Fully Vaccinated Americans May Not ‘Necessarily’ Need COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Shots

Fully vaccinated Americans may not need to get a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot, Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Friday in an interview on CBS’ “This Morning.” Fauci, who is head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said that there was “some misunderstanding” about whether fully vaccinated people would need a…


Children Admitted to the Hospital With COVID-19 May Be Overcounted: Study

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine examined COVID-19 cases from Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford for nine months between May 10, 2020, as the hospital began to test all of its inpatients for COVID-19, and Feb. 10, 2021.


California County’s Order Requires Businesses to Track COVID-19 Vaccination Status of All Employees

Health authorities in Santa Clara County, California, said that businesses are now required to determine the vaccination status of employees. An announcement posted on the county’s website this week stipulated: “All businesses and government entities must ascertain the vaccination status of personnel and must comply with the rules for personnel who are not fully vaccinated, as…


20 Attorneys General Petition Biden Admin to Backtrack on CRT and ‘1619 Project’-Based Education Proposals

A joint letter by 20 state attorneys general directed to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona is asking the Biden administration to retract its education plans that would promote Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the New York Times’ “1619 Project” in schools. The group’s criticism centers on recent proposals from the Department of Education that detail plans in April…


US States Start Seeing Days of Zero COVID-19 Deaths

U.S. states are starting to record days of zero deaths among people with COVID-19, another marker that the pandemic is easing. Idaho, Minnesota, and Wisconsin saw several zero-death days in recent weeks, and the nation’s second most populous state, Texas, saw a zero-death day for the first time since March 2020. Fifteen states on Monday…


Florida Fourth Grader Speaks Against Mask Mandate at School Board Meeting: ‘The Rules Aren’t Fair’

John Provenzano, a fourth-grade student at Felix A. Williams Elementary School in Martin County, recently gained popularity on social media because of a video in which he urged the school board to stop requiring students to wear masks.


Tennessee Governor Signs Bill to Prohibit Gender-Confirming Treatment for Minors

Tennessee’s Republican Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday signed legislation that prohibits gender-confirming treatment for children that want to change their gender, the latest in a chain of new laws in the state that transgender advocates have argued are discriminatory. The move makes Tennessee just the second state to enact such a ban after Arkansas approved a similar…