Healthcare & Policy News
Reporting on health care policy, insurance coverage, and federal health programs. Includes news updates and conservative commentary from The Daily Signal.
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Biden: Vaccine Mandates ‘Not About Freedom or Personal Choice’
President Joe Biden announced a string of mandates requiring federal employees and a sizable number of private sector workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19. “This is not about freedom or personal choice,” Biden said in formal remarks Thursday evening. “It’s about protecting yourself and those around you, the people you work with, the people you…Fred Lucas -
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Teachers Union Bullied White House, CDC Into Changing Guidelines for Masks at Schools
The nation's largest teachers union threatened to publicly criticize President Joe Biden’s administration if it didn't implement stricter mask guidance for schools, according to internal emails obtained by watchdog group Americans for Public Trust and provided to Fox News. Following a statement published by the National Education Association, new guidance from the Centers for Disease…Kendall Tietz -
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CDC Explores Study of How Women Affected by COVID-19 Vaccines
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is doing “exploratory work” to decide whether to study if COVID-19 vaccines cause “menstrual irregularities,” the CDC told The Daily Caller News Foundation. In late July, CDC spokeswoman Martha Sharan had said several studies on the vaccines’ effects on fertility were “in the works,” but hedged that “some are still…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Mexico’s High Court Decriminalizes Abortion
Mexico’s Supreme Court has unanimously voted to decriminalize abortion. During arguments beginning Monday, eight out of 11 of Mexico’s Supreme Court judges spoke out in defense of decriminalizing abortion. The move makes Mexico the most populated Latin American country to allow abortion, The New York Times reported, and comes shortly after Texas’ Heartbeat Act went…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Documents Indicate Fauci ‘Untruthful’ About Coronavirus Research in China, Disease Expert Says
A trove of newly released documents detailing U.S.-funded coronavirus research in China prior to the COVID-19 pandemic shows that Dr. Anthony Fauci was “untruthful” when he claimed that his agency did not finance gain-of-function research in Wuhan, an infectious disease expert says. Documents published by The Intercept on Sunday show that Fauci’s agency, the National Institute of…Andrew Kerr -
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Seattle Could Lose Over 200 Cops Because of COVID-19 Vaccine Policy
Seattle may lose more than 200 police officers over the city’s COVID-19 vaccination policy, according to a local talk radio host. Over 200 officers, who represent roughly 20% of the police department, said they haven’t been vaccinated or refused to hand over their private health records, according to "The Jason Rantz Show" on the Seattle radio…Harry Wilmerding -
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Why Isn’t Biden to Blame for COVID-19 Deaths?
One of the most morally revolting talking points taken up by Democrats in their effort to deflect attention from President Joe Biden’s deadly incompetence in Afghanistan is to minimize the deaths of 13 troops in Kabul, Afghanistan, by pointing out that more people are dying from COVID-19 every day. First of all, if we use…David Harsanyi -
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Psaki Dismisses Male Reporter’s Abortion Question: ‘You’ve Never Faced Those Choices’
White House press secretary Jen Psaki dismissed a male reporter’s question on President Joe Biden’s Catholicism and abortion by telling the reporter, “I know you’ve never had to face these choices.” EWTN’s Owen Jensen asked the White House press secretary why Biden supports abortion when “his own Catholic faith” teaches that the procedure is morally…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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CDC Should Revise Its Guidance Mandating Masks at School
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends “universal indoor masking of all students age 2 and older.” There’s just one problem: The leading study on which the CDC bases this recommendation found that the COVID-19 infection rate in schools requiring students to wear masks “was not statistically significant compared with schools where mask use…Doug Badger -
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There Are Better Ways to Fight COVID-19 Than Mask Mandates
Even though policy should be based on accurate data, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is failing to accurately justify its guidance that vaccinated people wear masks. The data clearly show that the vaccine helps people more than previous interventions, including mask mandates, and that the risk of dying from COVID-19 for the vaccinated…Kevin Dayaratna -
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YouTube Yanks Over 1 Million COVID-19 Videos It Deems ‘Dangerous’
YouTube has removed more than 1 million videos on its platform containing alleged misinformation related to COVID-19. The Google-owned company announced the figure in a blog post Wednesday, “Perspective: Tackling Misinformation on YouTube,” written by Neal Mohan, YouTube’s chief product officer. “Since last February, we’ve removed over 1 million videos related to dangerous coronavirus information, like false…Ailan Evans -
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Welcome to the Forever Pandemic
This week, as President Joe Biden attempted desperately to distract from his ongoing surrender in Afghanistan and the attendant chaos in its wake, the White House turned its eyes once again to the issue of COVID-19. On Monday, Biden pressed private industry to mandate vaccination, stating, “Do what I did last month, require your employees…Ben Shapiro -
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‘Require It’: Biden Tells Private Companies to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccinations
President Joe Biden encouraged private sector companies Monday to “step up” vaccine requirements for employees following the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. “If you’re a business leader, a nonprofit leader, a state or local leader, who has been waiting for full FDA approval to require vaccinations, I call on you…Kendall Tietz -
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Democrats Pursue Radical Abortion Agenda, Upending Bipartisan Consensus
The clock is ticking for Congress to fund the federal government for fiscal year 2022. Congress is also moving forward with implementing tax and spending sprees in the $3.5 trillion budget resolution and a $1.1 trillion infrastructure bill. There’s an issue looming large in these major spending bills: the future of longstanding, bipartisan pro-life policy….Melanie Israel -
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Data Shows COVID-19 Vaccines Are Safe, Effective, Says Researcher
Mixed messages about COVID-19 from the media, politicians, and public heath officials have left many Americans questioning what information they can trust. Across the nation, some political leaders and health experts continue to push for individuals to be vaccinated. We now know, however, that those who are vaccinated still may be infected by the coronavirus…Virginia Allen -
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Coronavirus Censorship
YouTube just froze Sen. Rand Paul’s YouTube channel. That’s just wrong. Small-minded. Counterproductive. YouTube says Paul violated its COVID-19 misinformation policy when he told an interviewer, “Most of the masks you get over the counter don’t work … virus particles are too small and go right through.” Paul didn’t make that up. Properly worn N95…John Stossel -
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4 Keys to Understanding COVID-19 Surge at Border
For six months, an overwhelmed southern border joined COVID-19 as the dominant headline. Now the two stories seem to have merged. Almost one-fifth of illegal border crossers in federal custody tested positive for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, according to a Department of Homeland Security document leaked to NBC News. Texas cities such as Laredo…Fred Lucas -
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We Hear You: Questions About Mask Mandates, Vaccines, and Leadership
Editor's note: Judging from the mailbag at [email protected], The Daily Signal's audience is wary that the Biden administration is leading the country toward stricter measures against COVID-19. Here's a sampling.—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I find it incredibly interesting that American citizens basically are having their arms twisted behind their back to get a substance…Ken McIntyre -
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Team Biden Works at ‘Behest of Abortion Lobby’ in Defiance of Law, 84 GOP Legislators Say
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra violated federal law when they told the Justice Department to drop a lawsuit against a hospital that forced a nurse to assist an elective abortion, 84 Republican lawmakers say. In a letter Wednesday to the high-ranking Biden administration officials, first obtained by…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Leaked Video Shows Hundreds at Camp for COVID-19-Positive Illegal Immigrants
MISSION, Texas—Hundreds of illegal immigrants crowded here under a pavilion in a park where temporary tent facilities were set up to house those who tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend, video provided to The Daily Caller News Foundation shows. The temporary facility was set up deep within Mission's Anzalduas Park and out of the…Kaylee Greenlee