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French President Emmanuel Macron provoked outcries and protests by using a vulgarity to describe his strategy for pressuring vaccine refusers to get coronavirus jabs. Too many parents were receiving medical or personal belief exemptions from school vaccine requirements, allowing childhood vaccination rates to fall — precipitously in some counties. Medical exemptions exist for children such as Rhett Krawitt, a Marin …
Jennifer Schrimsher, a physician at Lawrence Memorial Health, was up until 2 a.m. revising contingency plans. “This is our most difficult moment in the pandemic,” said Steve Stites, chief medical officer of the University of Kansas Health System. “Anybody who thinks they’re not going to die from COVID-19 now because it’s omicron, that’s just wrong,” said Dana Hawkinson, director of …
To encourage more people to get vaccinated against Covid-19, the Haryana government banned unvaccinated people in public places, starting Saturday. State health minister Anil Vij issued the orders, according to which unvaccinated people will not be allowed in public spaces, such as bars, restaurants, clubs and wine shops. The district administration and concerned authorities will have to ensure that all …
Republicans immediately announced legal action on Thursday against Joe Biden's vaccine mandate after details were released of the new rule, which affects more than 80 million workers at private companies and federal contractors. Companies with 100 or more workers will face fines up to $13,653 for each unvaccinated employee in the New Year Sanitation workers in New York City are …
A new trend circulating on TikTok is further contributing to the anti-vaccination extremism and the rapid spread of misinformation regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Crooks and Liars, the hashtag #PureBlood shows that supporters of the far-right are not only "unable to distinguish between J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter wizarding world and their own, but simultaneously appear either oblivious to the …