Wuhan Coronavirus Tag

Colleges and Universities Would Get $23 Billion Under Current COVID Relief Bill

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 24, 2020 0 Comments

“wholly inadequate”...

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D.C. Mayor Proclaims Christmas Eve ‘Dr. Anthony S. Fauci Day’

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 24, 2020 32 Comments

Last month, just ahead of the Thanksgiving holidays as several states began spirit-crushing lockdowns, Dr. Anthony Fauci sat for an interview about the pandemic and said, “now is the time to do what you’re told.”

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NYC Kids Must Go Remote if Parents Do Not Agree to the School Performing COVID Test Without Them

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 23, 2020 20 Comments

I came across this New York Post article about 12,000 kids not allowed to return to school after the Christmas holidays over lack of COVID-19 consent forms. Interest piqued because government sucks. It turns out Mayor Bill de Blasio required a consent form to test your child for COVID without a parent present and would not accept test results from a private doctor.

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U. Michigan Undergrads Living at Ann Arbor Campus Will Now Get Mandatory Weekly COVID Tests

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 23, 2020 3 Comments

"UM plans to increase asymptomatic testing for all members of the campus community"...

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Trump Tells Congress to Eat COVID-19 Bill, Wants Amount Increased to $2,000

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 22, 2020 63 Comments

President Donald Trump announced he wants Congress to amend the COVID-19 relief bill to give Americans $2,000 instead of $600. The best part? Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi "forgetting" that Republicans and Trump never once told her the amount they wanted to give people. Oh, she also said one day ago that $600 is a significant sum.

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After Thanksgiving Scandal, Dr. Birx to Retire

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on December 22, 2020 24 Comments

Dr. Birx was outed Sunday for defying her own holiday get-together guidance issued to the general public and has decided to retire after the "overwhelming" experience of having her hypocrisy gracing national headlines. Birx will help the Biden team and then she's out.

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Newsom Hints at Longer Lockdown as Craft Breweries, Restaurateur Sue Him Over Restrictions

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 22, 2020 35 Comments

Oh, Gov. Gavin Newsom. What are we going to do with you, you hypocrite? Newsom said on Monday that California "very likely" faces a longer COVID-19 lockdown after the state's breweries and a Los Angeles restaurateur filed a lawsuit against him.

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Birx Broke Her Own Recommendation to Limit Thanksgiving to ‘Immediate Household’

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 21, 2020 44 Comments

Dr. Deborah Birx of the White House COVID-19 team told Americans to limit Thanksgiving to "your immediate household." Yeah, Birx couldn't follow her own advice. She traveled to a vacation home with three generations of her family the day after Thanksgiving.

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Congress Will Vote on COVID-19 Relief Bill Almost Half of What Democrats Asked Before Election

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 21, 2020 34 Comments

Congress will vote Monday night on a COVID-19 relief bill worth $900 billion along with a $1.4 trillion spending bill to cover the remainder of the 2021 Fiscal Year. The Democrats wanted a $2.2 trillion COVID-19 relief bill before the election, but Republicans offered $900 billion. The left only agreed to that amount after their guy won the presidential election.

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COVID-19 has Mutated, But Questions Arise Over Real Hazards of New Strain

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 21, 2020 48 Comments

My colleague Vijeta Uniyal reported that enhanced pandemic restrictions in the United Kingdom were being implemented to battle a new strain of the Wuhan virus, regarded as “much more infectious.”

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Tables Turned: Restaurants Organize To Ban Gov. Cuomo From ‘all New York City establishments’

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on December 20, 2020 38 Comments

It probably goes without saying at this point that Democrat governors have overreached in their response to the Wuhan coronavirus.  Democrat leaders' draconian, illogical, unsupportable, contradictory, and just plain stupid lockdown decisions are coming home to roost.

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American College Student Gets Jail Time in Cayman Islands for Violating COVID Rules

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 20, 2020 8 Comments

"broke a strict 14-day quarantine rule to attend her boyfriend's jet-skiing competition"...

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Europe Braces for Grim Christmas as Germany, UK Tighten Coronavirus Lockdown

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on December 20, 2020 20 Comments

Europe is plunging into darkness ahead of this year's Christmas season as Germany and the United Kingdom tighten their already harsh coronavirus lockdowns. 

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“Expert” says essential workers should get COVID vaccine before elderly because ‘older people are whiter’

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 20, 2020 49 Comments

Few events in the annals of medical history are more reviled the Tuskegee Experiment, in which race was the deciding factor in who was denied treatment. Yet, decades later, "experts" are advising that race-based COVID-vaccination priorities be established.

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Duquesne University Cutting Faculty to Cut Costs Amid Pandemic

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 18, 2020 3 Comments

"the university will not renew a subset of contracts of full-time, non-tenure track faculty and a few others who do not have tenure"...

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Mike Pence, Karen Pence, and Surgeon General Get COVID-19 Vaccine Live on TV

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 18, 2020 33 Comments

Vice President Mike Pence, Second Lady Karen Pence, and Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams received the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on live television.

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San Diego County ‘Pausing’ State COVID-19 Lockdown After Judge Ruled Against Regional Orders

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 17, 2020 9 Comments

California Gov. Gavin Newsom once again ordered a state lockdown in response to an uptick of COVID-19 cases. Some places have refused to follow this order. San Diego County has paused enforcement after a judge ruled against a regional order affecting two strip clubs.

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Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Rated ‘Highly Effective,’ Clearing Final Hurdle for FDA Emergency Use Authorization

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 17, 2020 29 Comments

The second promising coronavirus vaccine from Moderna has tested 94 percent effective at preventing symptomatic illness and appears to prevent the spread of the virus as well. It looks like all systems are go for FDA "emergency use" approval by the end of the week.

The high efficacy of the Moderna vaccine was noted after two doses given 28 days apart. This is about the same level of effectiveness as the Pfizer vaccine.

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