Tag: vaccination

Deep Dive (Aug. 12): White House, Fauci Use TikTok Influencers to Boost Vaccination

The Department of Health and Human Services is mandating all 25,000 health care workers to get the vaccine. That makes it the third federal agency to mandate the shot. The other two are the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense. This comes as three airlines won’t be following United in mandating the vaccine….


US Railroad Amtrak to Require Employee Vaccinations or Testing, Memo Says

WASHINGTON—U.S. passenger railroad Amtrak will require all of its 18,000 employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Nov. 1 or submit to weekly testing. The railroad also said starting Oct. 4 all new employees will need to show proof they are fully vaccinated before their first day of employment. Amtrak also said employees working…


American Airlines CEO: Company Will Not Enforce Vaccination Policy for Employees, Says It ‘Isn’t Something We’re Looking to Do’

By Emily Rella Many major companies and employers are doubling down on vaccination requirements for their employees and staff, some going as far as to make it a requirement without the ability to opt out and wear a mask. Last week, United Airlines became the first major U.S. airline to require that all of its…


Norwegian Cruise Line Can Ask Florida Passengers for Vaccination Proof, Judge Rules

A federal judge on Sunday ruled that Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings may require passengers to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination before boarding a ship, dealing a major blow to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s effort to ban “vaccine passports.” District Judge Kathleen Williams issued a preliminary ruling saying that the cruise ship line would likely prevail…


Delta Variant Challenges China’s Costly Lockdown Strategy

BEIJING—The Delta variant is challenging China’s costly strategy of isolating cities. The Chinese regime is struggling with the most serious outbreak since last year’s peak in Wuhan. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is reviving tactics that shut down China: access to a city of 1.5 million people cut off, flights canceled, and mass testing ordered…


Biden Administration Should Look in Mirror Before Casting Stones Over Vaccinations

Commentary It was always going to be a Herculean task to inoculate, with an untried vaccine, a multi-ethnic nation of 330 million people across a vast continent—in an era when the media routinely warps the daily news. Many African Americans understandably harbored distrust of government inoculations after the infamous Tuskegee experiment. Nearly 40 million foreign…


Officials Investigate How Fully Vaccinated Aussie Marine Pilot Got CCP Virus

Australian health authorities in the state of Queensland are investigating how a fully vaccinated man in the far north city of Cairns contracted a CCP virus Delta variant that doesn’t cluster with any known strain in Queensland. The man, who works as a marine pilot navigating vessels over the Great Barrier Reef, was fully vaccinated with…


COVID Panic, Round 2

Commentary As best I recall, the sequence of statements coming from the government and “experts” since the beginning of COVID-19 has gone something like this: You don’t need to wear a mask and it’s no more serious than the flu; you do need to wear a mask, though the virus is so small it can…


Alberta’s Daring Departure From the COVID Restrictions Approach

Commentary When I heard that Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer Deena Hinshaw was doing her first press conference in nearly a month, I assumed that she was going to be announcing some tightening of COVID-19 restrictions in light of rising case counts. My jaw dropped when Dr. Hinshaw essentially declared the pandemic emergency as being over…


We Should All Be Cheering for Alberta’s Departure from COVID Restrictions to Succeed

Commentary When I heard that Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer Deena Hinshaw was doing her first press conference in nearly a month, I assumed that she was going to be announcing some tightening of COVID-19 restrictions in light of rising case counts. My jaw dropped when Dr. Hinshaw essentially declared the pandemic emergency as being over…