Coronavirus

A group of Republican senators has unveiled what they say is a groundbreaking bill aimed at righting the wrongs faced by American servicemembers during the COVID-19 vaccine mandate era. The Reaffirming Every Servicemember's Trust Over Religious Exemptions (RESTORE) Act, spearheaded by Senators Ted Cruz of Texas, Rick Scott of Florida, Katie Britt of Alabama and Mike Lee of Utah, mandates the Department of Defense to form a Special Review Board, tasked with auditing the handling of religious accommodation requests (RARs) related to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

A USAID employee in charge of managing contracts for the agency created a fake company to fraudulently secure coronavirus benefits for himself, federal prosecutors said Friday. “Yusuf Akoll worked as a Senior Procurement Contract Specialist at the U.S. Agency for International Development,” according to a previously unreported court document.

The New York Times quietly edited its early articles on the COVID-19 pandemic to scrub the phrases “China virus” and “Wuhan virus,” only to hit President Donald Trump for using the same terms weeks later, according to a review of archived versions of several early pandemic stories. “Whistle-Blower On China Virus Succumbs to It,” reads the headline of a Feb. 6, 2020, story describing the death of Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist who raised the alarm about the spread of a SARS-like pneumonia with friends on social media and later died...

As the coronavirus swept across the country, two South Florida women teamed up to steal more than $800,000 in federal government loans that were meant to help small businesses survive the economic collapse during the public health crisis. Raisha Kelly, 44, of Palm Beach County, was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison after being found guilty of multiple counts of wire fraud by submitting falsified tax returns on loan applications in Miami federal court. She was also ordered to reimburse $443,895 to the Small Business Administration, which guaranteed...

Kenya’s economy grew at its slowest pace since the coronavirus pandemic after it was battered by deadly protests and floods.

Gross domestic product grew by 4.7% last year compared with 5.7% in 2023, Kenya National Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday. That was better than the International Monetary Fund’s 4.5% growth estimate.

Back in 2021, China attempted to blame the United States for being the source of the novel coronavirus that morphed into the COVID pandemic. It’s propagandists in the Communist Youth League even initiated an “America’s Ft. Detrick social media campaign on the site formerly known as Twitter in support of this fable. China has now begun to escalate its rhetoric regarding the origins of COVID-19. It is in response to www.covid.gov now directing everyone to a webpage detailing the case of the virus being created at the Wuhan Institute of...

An Army biodefense researcher, Hatfill was investigated for years by the Justice Department as a “person of interest” in the 2001 mailing of letters that contained anthrax spores, which killed five people and sickened 17. Hatfill was formally exonerated in 2008, the same year the government paid him $4.6 million to settle his lawsuit in the case. Hatfill has worked with trade adviser Peter Navarro, who held the same role in Trump’s first term. Navarro joined forces with Hatfill and the president to promote hydroxychloroquine and a related drug, chloroquine,...

Like most of us, I suppose, the shock to our system and way of life during the government’s response to COVID-19 cannot easily be forgotten. It was our taste of ill-considered government tyranny, a public-health disaster. As more information about its origins and how the disease was handled is revealed, it always gets my attention. In sum, banking on helping defeat Trump, the public-health establishment and media suppressed more credible options for dealing with a disease which was not life-threatening to most in order to promote a vaccine then in...

Congratulations, RFK Jr! Your anti-vax propaganda has managed to kill more kids than any time since 2009. The CDC dropped its latest report card Friday, and surprise – 216 children are dead from the flu this season. That's more tiny coffins than we've seen since the swine flu pandemic, as reported by NBC News. That's more tiny coffins than we've seen since the swine flu pandemic, as reported by NBC News. Dr. Sean O'Leary from the American Academy of Pediatrics points out this death count is "almost certainly an undercount."...

President Donald Trump’s first budget proposal for his second term, released Friday, calls for cutting the National Institutes of Health budget by nearly $18 billion next year, citing the agency’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic and recent transgender medical research as the primary justification for the massive cuts. The premier public health research agency has “broken the trust of the American people with wasteful spending, misleading information, risky research, and the promotion of dangerous ideologies that undermine public health,” according to the budget proposal.