University of South Carolina (USC) has canceled its plan to enforce face coverings on campus for the upcoming fall semester, after the state’s attorney general warned that it would go against the intent of state legislation. The USC, whose campus in Columbia serves more than 35,000 students, on July 30 announced that everyone must wear…
University of South Carolina Drops Mask Mandate After AG Says It Violates State Order
10 Republicans Back Bill Calling for Audit of the CDC
A group of 10 Republican senators is backing a bill that would require an audit of the decision-making and public health messaging by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Senate bill (pdf), titled ‘Restore Public Health Institution Trust Act of 2021, would require the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to assess the CDC’s public…
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All federal employees and those visiting federal buildings will be required to wear a mask, police now have orders to arrest Capitol Building visitors and staff who aren’t wearing masks and refuse to leave, and three of the Texas lawmakers who fled Texas testify in Washington D.C. about the voting bill.
California Health Officials Join CDC, Recommend Mask Wearing Indoors
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—California public health officials July 28 aligned with new guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and recommended that everyone wear masks in indoor public settings, regardless of COVID-19 vaccination status. The announcement by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is only a recommendation, not a mandate. “The Delta…
Department of Homeland Security Imposes Employee Mask Mandate
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday announced that all employees, regardless of COVID-19 vaccination status, have to wear masks and physically distance themselves indoors. The policy will go into effect immediately, the department said in a statement. DHS oversees a number of different agencies, including Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs…
CDC: Fully Vaccinated People Should Wear Masks Indoors in Some Areas
A top U.S. health agency on Tuesday altered its COVID-19-related guidance once again, telling people to wear masks in some areas even if they are fully vaccinated against the virus that causes the disease. New research into outbreaks from several states and other countries “indicate that on rare occasions some vaccinated people infected with the Delta…
Americans: Choose Freedom and Take Off the Mask
Commentary In the midst of an 8,000-mile car trip around the formerly United—and now fractured—States of America, I arrived in Southern California a couple of weeks ago, just in time to fall victim to an indoor mask-mandate jackbooted by Los Angeles County in the interests of Leftist conformity, virtue signaling, and general fascist stupidity. From…
California City: Vaccinated Employees Should Wear Stickers If They Want to Work Without Masks
July 26, 2021
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A city in Southern California ordered vaccinated government employees to wear stickers if they want to work without masks on, said city officials. Montclair, California, city manager Edward Starr told the San Bernardino Sun that workers who have not been vaccinated or don’t provide proof or verification of their vaccination against COVID-19 will be required to…
Author of Retracted Study on Harm of Mask-Wearing by Children Says Removal Was ‘Political’
The lead author of a now-retracted research note that claimed children’s masks trapped dangerously high concentrations of carbon dioxide has said that JAMA Pediatrics’ decision to pull the paper was politically motivated. The research note, “Experimental Assessment of Carbon Dioxide Content in Inhaled Air With or Without Face Masks in Healthy Children: A Randomized Clinical…
Orange County’s COVID-19 Weekly Averages Jump Up
July 20, 2021
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SANTA ANA, Calif.—Orange County’s weekly averages for COVID-19 doubled July 20, but hospitalizations decreased. The county’s case rate per 100,000 residents increased from 2.6 to 4.9 and the test positivity rate jumped up from 1.8 percent to 3.3 percent. The county’s Health Equity Quartile rate, which measures the disadvantaged communities hardest hit by the pandemic,…
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