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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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 -
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States That Mandate Vaccine Passports Must Require Voter ID Too, Lawmakers Propose
Republican lawmakers on Thursday introduced the Vaccine Passport and Voter ID Harmonization Act, legislation that would require states mandating vaccine passports to also mandate voter ID requirements. The Daily Caller News Foundation first obtained the text of the bill, introduced by Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., in the Senate and Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., in the…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Biden Rolls Out Red Carpet for COVID-Infected Illegal Immigrants
President Joe Biden is the root cause of today’s COVID-19 superspreader extravaganza on the southern frontier. His come-and-get-it, no-borders policy offers a laurel and hearty welcome to COVID-19-infected illegal aliens. Biden’s red carpet for COVID-19 carriers on the U.S.-Mexico boundary—atop his mandatory vaccines for U.S. military personnel and vaccination papers for lawful foreign visitors—epitomizes hypocrisy,…Deroy Murdock -
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Biden Administration Should Look in Mirror Before Casting Stones Over Vaccinations
It was always going to be a Herculean task to inoculate, with an untried vaccine, a multiethnic nation of 330 million people across a vast continent—in an era when the media routinely warps the daily news. Many African Americans understandably harbored distrust of government inoculations after the infamous Tuskegee experiment. Nearly 40 million foreign residents…Victor Davis Hanson -
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When Does COVID-19 Panic End?
Two weeks to slow the spread. That was the original rationale for the lockdowns, masking, and social distancing: Prevent transmission of the coronavirus so that Americans could be assured that we would not overwhelm hospital capacity, causing needless death. Wait until a vaccine is available. That was the next goal post: an admonition to continue…Ben Shapiro -
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‘Tech Giant Censorship’: YouTube Suspends News Outlet for Year-Old Videos About Masks, COVID-19
Sky News Australia has been suspended by YouTube for a week following a review of old videos, according to a statement published by the outlet. In a statement, Sky News criticized the temporary suspension of its popular YouTube channel, which prohibits the outlet from uploading new videos or livestreams for one week under the platform’s three strikes…Kendall Tietz -
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Biden Calls on Cuomo to ‘Resign,’ Scolds DeSantis and Abbott on COVID-19
President Joe Biden on Tuesday took swipes at governors of three of the nation’s most populous states, telling one to resign from office over sexual harassment allegations and two others to “get out of the way” regarding COVID-19 policy. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, and Republican Govs. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg…Fred Lucas -
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Report ‘Proves’ Coronavirus Leaked From Wuhan Lab, GOP Lawmakers Say
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 entered the human population in a leak from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology by mid-September 2019, according to a new report from Republican members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “[W]e now believe it’s time to completely dismiss the wet market as the source of the outbreak,” says the report, released…Andrew Kerr -
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DC Mayor Denies Breaking Own Mask Mandate, Despite Photo
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser denied breaking her own mask mandate at a wedding Saturday night, despite photo evidence showing her seated maskless at a table. The Washington Examiner first reported late Saturday that Bowser, a Democrat, had officiated a wedding attended by “hundreds of unmasked guests” at the five-star hotel The Line DC in the Adams…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Why States Should Tune Out Washington’s COVID-19 Noise
The federal government continues to offer garbled COVID-19 messages that undermine its credibility and sow confusion about the pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now thinks there are more infections among the vaccinated than it did previously (35,000 weekly with symptomatic infections) and suggests that vaccinated people are helping spread what President Joe…Doug Badger