Tag: Health Education

California County to Launch Digital Vaccine Passport Pilot

California’s Orange County plans to launch a pilot program for digital CCP virus vaccine and testing passports, according to health officials. The vaccine and testing credentialing arrangement will be rolled out sometime in April, Orange County Health Care Agency officials said on Twitter. “The Digital Passport enables individuals to participate safety and with peace of mind…


Regeneron to Seek FDA Approval for Its COVID-19 Antibody Cocktail to Be Used for Prevention

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals is pursuing FDA approval for its antibody cocktail to be used as a preventative treatment for COVID-19 after its latest study showed positive results. The company announced in a release that its phase three prevention trial for REGEN-COV—a combination of casirivimab and imdevimab—showed that the drug reduced the risk of symptomatic infections by…


Biden Admin Turns Down Petition to Enforce Title IX Based on Biological Sex

The Biden administration has declined a request by a feminist organization to affirm that Title IX regulations will be enforced based on biological sex, rather than a person’s self-identification as male, female, or anything else. In February, the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) petitioned (pdf) the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to make a ruling…


4th US Site Pauses COVID-19 Vaccinations After Adverse Reactions

A fourth vaccination site in the United States has paused giving shots after a batch of adverse reactions. Injections at the Cumming Fairgrounds in Forsyth County have been halted after eight people experienced adverse reactions post-vaccination, the Georgia Department of Health said Friday. One person was evaluated at the hospital and released while the others were…


Biden to Rush Vaccinators and Testing to Michigan as Whitmer Pleads for More Vaccines

The White House said Friday that Washington is surging federal resources to support vaccinations, testing, and therapeutics—though not vaccines themselves—to Michigan in a bid to control the state’s worst-in-the-nation COVID-19 transmission rate, with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer pleading for a surge in doses. Senior administration officials told The Associated Press that President Joe Biden told…


Los Angeles Parents Sue School District, Ask for Immediate Full Reopening

A group of parents in Los Angeles sued the county’s school district this week, asserting that each day schools remain closed, students and families are “suffering irreparable harm.” California Students United and four parents say in the April 7 suit that all schools in the county could have reopened based on updated statewide criteria but…


Rep. Biggs Introduces Bill Banning Federal Agencies From Mandating Vaccine Passports

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) introduced legislation on Thursday that would ban federal agencies from creating so-called “vaccine passports,” credentials that could take the form of an app or a physical document that indicate whether someone has been inoculated against the CCP virus, which causes the disease COVID-19. The proposed bill, called the No Vaccine Passports Act…


First Cases of Brazilian CCP Virus Variant in Colorado Announced

Colorado on Tuesday reported its first two cases of the Brazilian variant of the CCP virus. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said in a release it was notified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of two new cases in the state of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus P.1 variant, also…


Replace Confucius Institutes With ‘Censorship-Free Alternatives,’ Lawmakers Urge

Republican lawmakers this week urged the Department of Education to look to Taiwan to provide “censorship-free alternatives” in teaching Mandarin and Chinese culture on American campuses, in place of Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-funded Confucius Institutes (CI). In a letter (pdf) to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Calif.) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) led…


Replace Confucius Institutes With ‘Censorship-Free Alternatives,’ GOP Lawmakers Urge

Republican lawmakers this week urged the Department of Education to look to Taiwan to provide “censorship-free alternatives” for teaching Mandarin and Chinese culture on U.S. campuses, in place of Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-funded Confucius Institutes (CI). In a letter (pdf) to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Calif.) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) led…