Tag: Covid

DeSantis Quietly Hits At Trump Administration For Trying To Stop COVID Too Hard

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<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who&#8217;s been waging war on COVID-19 safety measures in a clear bid to be the next MAGA king ahead of 2024, sees ex-president Donald Trump&#8217;s <a rel=”noreferrer noopener” href=”https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-attack-gutless-republican-politicians-booster-shot” target=”_blank”>oblique swipe</a> and raises him a challenge of who can be more pro-spread than the other.</p> Talking Points Memo

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Where Things Stand: Biden Deploys The Military To Fight COVID As SCOTUS Helps Pandemic Linger

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<p>The White House&#8217;s latest COVID-19 mitigation efforts are a contrast to the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling today.</p> <p>President Biden <a href=”https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/01/13/remarks-by-president-biden-at-virtual-meeting-on-military-deployments-supporting-hospitals-for-the-covid-19-response/”>announced Thursday</a> that his administration would double its previous promise to hand out free at-home COVID-19 tests, with plans to send out one billion to Americans&#8217; homes. Along with that, the Biden administration will distribute N95 masks to the public as the country faces an unprecedented spike in COVID infections.</p> <p>Biden is also deploying more military personnel to hospitals. Speaking from the White House the President said that next week he…

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Supreme Court Sets Special Hearing on Biden’s COVID Vaccine Mandates

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The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Jan. 7 in cases challenging two of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Those mandates would apply to more than 100 million Americans who work at private-sector businesses and health care facilities. With compliance deadlines quickly approaching, the Supreme Court decided to step in and schedule an unusual Friday session for oral arguments. The Heritage Foundation, a petitioner in the case challenging the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, asked the high court Saturday to halt the government’s order. Heritage, a private employer…

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White House downplays Secret Service estimate of COVID fraud

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The White House downplayed a statement by the U.S. Secret Service that nearly $ 100 billion at minimum has been stolen from COVID-19 relief programs, saying Wednesday that the estimate is based on old reports. White House press secretary Jen Psaki, when asked to comment on the figure, said, “There is … The Washington Times stories: White House

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Fauci on What COVID Could Look Like One Year From Now

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It was bad enough that the Omicron variant shattered hopes of a normal holiday season, or at least what passes for normal in year two of the pandemic. Now it feels like we’re fated to live with COVID-19 in perpetuity, forever worried that when one variant fades, another will quickly take its place, that we’ll never, once and for all, throw out our face masks. Anthony Fauci is more upbeat. No, we won’t wipe out the coronavirus, but we will reach a point where it’s tamed, he told me in…

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