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Pfizer’s pill for COVID-19 symptoms may have risky side effects By Herb Scribner Deseret News December 28, 2021 Pfizer’s new COVID-19 pill — which is expected to help with COVID-19 symptoms — may have risky side effects, medical experts recently said. Last week, the Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer’s antiviral pill, called Paxlovid, to treat COVID-19 and COVID-19 symptoms. The pill is one that sick people will take at home before they’re hospitalized. But medical experts recently told NBC News that the pill may come with some risky side effects. Per NBC News, “one of the two…
Fauci: US should consider vaccine mandate for domestic air travel By Zeke Miller The Detroit News December 28, 2021 Fauci said such a mandate might drive up the nation’s lagging vaccination rate as well as confer stronger protection on flights, for which federal regulations require all those age 2 and older to wear a mask. “When you make vaccination a requirement, that’s another incentive to get more people vaccinated,” Fauci told MSNBC. “If you want to do that with domestic flights, I think that’s something that seriously should be considered.” The Biden administration has thus far balked at…
Snow reported in Seattle, California as parts of U.S. get unlikely white Christmas NBC News December 27, 2021 A white Christmas arrived after all for parts of the Western U.S. Snow pounded mountains across California late Saturday after it gave the Seattle area a rare show Saturday afternoon. There were multiple reports of snow falling around Seattle, and the National Weather Service said “snowy, difficult travel” should be expected on local roads. A “seemingly endless” pattern of low pressure fronts from the Pacific were striking the West Coast, with cold storms expected through midweek, federal forecasters said. Continue…
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Jan. 6 panel signals interest in whether Trump committed crime By Harper Neidig and Rebecca Beitsch TheHill December 26, 2021 The Jan. 6 Select Committee has signaled it intends to explore potential criminal wrongdoing by former President Trump, marking a significant escalation for the investigation that could put pressure on the Biden administration. The panel has said it could refer Trump to the Justice Department for prosecution if it finds damning evidence, in what would be seen as an open invitation to Attorney General Merrick Garland to be more aggressive toward the former president than he has been…
Sunday show preview: Omicron surges, and Harris sits for extensive interview By Hanna Trudo TheHill December 26, 2021 The Sunday show coverage this holiday weekend is expected to focus heavily on the COVID-19 pandemic and Vice President Harris’ first term in the Biden White House. Coronavirus continues to dominate headlines as the omicron, the most contagious variant yet, spreads through cities and states with striking intensity. Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s top medical adviser, has recently warned about the “unprecedented” pace of the virus. Continue Reading…..
By Shalini Nagarajan Business Insider December 26, 2021 Last week Trump gave the COVID-19 vaccine his strongest endorsement yet, saying that it protects people and won’t kill anyone. Owens has encouraged vaccine skepticism and repeatedly said that she was not vaccinated. “Everything that [Trump’s generation] read in a newspaper that was pitched to them that they believe that that was a reality,” she said. “And one of those things was, you know, this push for vaccines and believing that people were going to die without vaccines. And so, I believe that his support of the vaccine is genuine and…
Opinion | I thought I lucked out when I got the J&J vaccine in March. Boy, was I wrong. NBC News December 25, 2021 Although now it seems like it happened eons ago, in reality, it has been only nine months since my wife and I received our Johnson & Johnson “one-and-done” Janssen vaccinations. (In November, we both received a Moderna mRNA booster shot.) After last week’s announcement that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices was formally recommending that adults take the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines over Johnson & Johnson’s shot, I…
Say it ain’t Joe: Manchin’s not the only big hurdle left for Biden’s megabill By Jennifer Scholtes, Caitlin Emma POLITICO December 25, 2021 Democrats are still courting the one person powerful enough to make or break President Joe Biden’s $1.7 trillion social spending bill — and she doesn’t hail from West Virginia. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is vowing a vote on the sprawling social policy and climate package next month, aiming to get negotiations back on track after Sen. Joe Manchin’s declaration that he can’t support the House-passed version. As such, staffers are still meeting with the…
Fauci Calls RFK Jr. a ‘Very Disturbed Individual’ Over Career Attacks By Jolie Lash TheWrap December 24, 2021 Infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci has addressed attacks made on his career and reputation by notorious anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who last month released the book “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.” Speaking to Yahoo News, the director of the NIAID said, “it really is a shame that he is attacking me in my career,” when asked about RFK’s book not being “a flattering portrait of” his…