Category: Vaccines

Live Q&A: National Guard Begins Filling Gov Roles; Break In Democrat Party Over Spending

The National Guard will begin filling roles of state employees in Connecticut starting next week as some unvaccinated employees are placed on unpaid leave. In other news, Democrats are split over disagreements on spending in both the proposed $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, as the federal government nears its debt…


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Oct. 1)

California will soon become the first state to mandate vaccines for eligible students in K–12, New York state health care workers can now file temporary religious exemptions against the vaccine mandate, and drugmaker Merck says its experimental drug for COVID-19 cuts the risk of death or hospitalization by 50 percent.


NTD News Today Full Broadcast (Oct. 1)

An infrastructure stalemate. No deal yet because there’s been no vote. The House, expected to continue talks on Friday. And the White House is continuing talks on the larger social spending package too. A senator introduces a bill to require vaccines or tests in order to fly within the country. This as a Republican move…


Monterey Medical Workers Protest Vaccine Mandates Ahead of State Vaccination Deadline

MONTEREY, Calif.—Approximately 100 people, including hospital staff, their families, and other community members, held a rally in Monterey, California, on Sept. 26 to express their opposition to vaccine mandates. The Oct. 1 deadline is approaching for California health care workers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Hospital staff at the rally shared their stories as…


EU Drugs Regulator to Decide on Pfizer Vaccine Booster in Early October

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) aims to decide in early October whether to endorse a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to be given half a year after the initial two-shot course, saying breakthrough infections added some urgency to its review. “The outcome of this evaluation is expected in early October, unless supplementary information…


Lithuania to Donate More COVID-19 Vaccines to Taiwan

Lithuania announced on Wednesday that it will donate over 230,000 additional doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Taiwan, on top of the first 20,000 doses delivered to the self-ruled island since June. A Sept. 22 official statement said the Lithuanian health ministry would allocate 235,900 vaccine doses to Taiwan in the next three weeks, helping…


Biden Announces Further US Investment in Combatting the Virus Globally

President Joe Biden announced Wednesday the U.S. government is increasing its investment in combating the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus globally by doubling the number of COVID-19 vaccines it plans to purchase and ship around the world. U.S. taxpayers will foot the bill for another 500 million Pfizer vaccines to ship to 100 low and…


Biden Announces Further US Investment in Combatting COVID-19 Globally

President Joe Biden announced on Sept. 22 that the U.S. government is increasing its investment in combating the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus globally by doubling the number of COVID-19 vaccines it plans to purchase and ship around the world. U.S. taxpayers will foot the bill for another 500 million Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to ship to 100 countries—92…


Live Q&A: Fauci Says Vaccines for Kids Soon; Doctors Warn of Gov Restricts On Monoclonal Treatments

Anthony Fauci said that the FDA will likely soon make its decision on whether to recommend COVID-19 vaccines for children under 12 years old, and noted data should be in soon on whether vaccines are needed for children between the ages of 5 and 11. And in other news, doctors are warning that federal government…


Beijing Claims to Have Fully Vaccinated Over 1 Billion People

China announced on Thursday that it has fully vaccinated more than 1 billion people against COVID-19—over 70 percent of the entire population. Ten months ago, the Chinese Communist Party rolled out the immunization campaign to those aged 12 and older. Nearly 2.2 billion vaccine doses had been administered to date, National Health Commission spokesperson Mi…