“We know a lot about the upside of the vaccine. We’ve been completely in favor of vulnerable people taking vaccines. But what about the potential risks? You’d think you would know more about that than you do.”
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order scrapping all COVID-19 restrictions throughout the state and an accompanying bill that limits localities’ ability to enforce emergency precautions. The bill also prohibits businesses from requiring “vaccine passports.”
More than 100 colleges across the U.S. have said they will require students to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in order to attend in-person classes. According to federal law, all Emergency Use Authorization products “are by definition experimental and thus require the right to refuse.”
About 75 Vermonters turned out on a chilly Sunday afternoon at the Gardner Park Bandstand to hear liberty-minded Vermonters speak out against COVID-19 lockdowns, media censorship and other government overreaches.
Increasingly, states are lifting or modifying mask mandates. The following 14 states, in alphabetical order, had mask orders but have lifted them.
To reach herd immunity, more than 80% of the U.S. population would need to be vaccinated or have natural immunity to the virus. A person gets natural immunity after contracting the virus and gets the antibodies necessary to fight off future infection.
Lawmakers proposed an amendment that would ban on any state agency or “business getting taxpayer money” from “compelling” employees or clients to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Rep. Timothy Baxter, R-Seabrook, said passports mean people “could discriminate against flying, travel, going to a job or simply going to the supermarket.”
The Vermont Agency of Education (AOE) has released an updated version of the Annual Snapshot. We are unable to report many indicators of academic achievement, as the assessments on which they are based were not conducted during the 2019-20 academic year.
The California Secretary of State’s Office confirmed Monday that it has received and verified enough signatures to trigger an election for the removal of Gov. Gavin Newsom from office. The threshold of verified signatures reported by counties had been met and exceeds the required amount of 1,495,709.
“Fifteen days to slow the spread” has mutated, incrementally, into an insidious threat to human rights having less to do with a virus than with technocratic opportunism. Vaccine passports represent not a “new normal,” but something profoundly abnormal.
Barely one-fifth of Americans who have yet be vaccinated said they would receive Johnson & Johnson’s shot following its temporary pause by the Centers for Disease Control due to extremely rare blood clots, a new poll finds.
New Hampshire ranks in the bottom half of states in terms of economic exposure to the coronavirus, coming in at 31 out of the 50 states, according to WalletHub analyst Jill Gonalzez.