Anthony Fauci’s parting advice: Stick to the science
The 82 year-old veteran government official and infectious disease expert will officially retire at the end of 2022.
By Associated Press - December 25, 2022The 82 year-old veteran government official and infectious disease expert will officially retire at the end of 2022.
By Associated Press - December 25, 2022Free COVID-19 tests are being made available again via covidtests.gov.
By Associated Press - December 15, 2022Kevin McCarthy has pledged that his party will oppose a budget bill funding the Defense Department’s operations next year if a rule supported by the president and military isn’t revoked.
By Oliver Willis - December 06, 2022‘A lot of people are going to be happy and a lot of grandparents are going to be happy, too.’
By Associated Press - June 17, 2022It didn’t have to be this way.
By Josh Axelrod - January 20, 2022The new COVID strain is ’cause for concern, not a cause for panic,’ President Joe Biden said Monday.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - November 30, 2021Republicans have increasingly embraced antisemitic comparisons of vaccine mandates to the Holocaust.
By Emily Singer - November 15, 2021Voters who expressed concern about the pandemic overwhelmingly backed Democrat Terry McAuliffe. But most voters had other priorities.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - November 03, 2021After ending pandemic-related unemployment benefits, some Republican officials now want assistance for workers who were fired for refusing to get vaccinated.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - October 25, 2021Michele Fiore has also suggested racism is a thing of the past and has said that ‘young, hot little girls on campus’ should carry guns to prevent getting assaulted.
By Josh Israel - October 19, 2021The GOP gubernatorial nominee said Tuesday that some vaccines ‘can be mandatory’ — with the exception of the COVID-19 vaccine.
By Josh Israel - September 29, 2021The majority of Americans support COVID-19 vaccine mandates in many cases, according to a new poll.
By Emily Singer - September 13, 2021Most Americans want them.
By Josh Israel - August 19, 2021U.S. officials now say most Americans should get a third COVID-19 vaccine shot. Experts worry about the rest of the world.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - August 18, 2021As more employers impose vaccine mandates, a legal showdown over religious exemptions could be brewing, experts say.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - August 18, 2021Republican state lawmakers are reportedly circulating a bill that would grant unemployment to those who quit over workplace vaccine requirements, weeks after trying to end benefits for others.
By Josh Israel - August 13, 2021Vaccination rates are increasing in states with the highest rates of new coronavirus infections.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - August 06, 2021Among Americans who align themselves with the GOP, confidence in science has fallen 27 points since 1975, at a time when public health professionals are speaking out against the dangers of vaccine misinformation.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - July 16, 2021The ahistorical comparison comes as other GOP legislators equate vaccine requirements to the horrors of the Holocaust.
By Josh Axelrod - July 08, 2021Older people are sharing their memories of the polio era with young people as a lesson of hope for emergence from COVID-19.
By Associated Press - June 12, 2021Vaccines are slowly becoming available to immigrants in US custody. Whether they trust authorities enough to take them is another question.
By Amy Lieu - March 22, 2021‘This bill will lower health care costs, expand coverage, and address inequities in care,’ Anne Shoup of Protect Our Care said.
By Donna Provencher - March 11, 2021‘I think they just kind of feel like there is no end in sight,’ said the executive vice president of one local union protecting grocery store workers.
By Donna Provencher - February 26, 2021‘The trajectory of the economy is predicated on the effectiveness of the vaccine and its distribution,’ Jack Kleinhenz, chief economist of the National Retail Federation, said this week.
By Donna Provencher - February 25, 2021Experts say many vaccination sites have not received sufficient support from state, local, and federal governments.
By Donna Provencher - February 24, 2021Black Americans and Latinos suffered the biggest impact.
By Associated Press - February 18, 2021U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said that 130 countries have not received a single dose of vaccine.
By Associated Press - February 17, 2021States don’t have enough vaccine doses as a result of purchasing failures by the Trump administration.
By Oliver Willis - February 03, 2021Trump officials actively hampered state and local efforts to get people vaccinated, a new report shows.
By Amy Lieu - February 01, 2021Employers are considering ‘get vaccinated or get fired’ requirements for workers — and that has unions concerned.
By Amy Lieu - January 25, 2021