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BREAKING: Federal judge approves $10M settlement for health care workers fired over COVID-19 vaccine mandate, sets legal precedent

Today, a U.S. judge approved $10.3 million settlement for workers who were fired by an Illinois health care system for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine. About 500 workers who were terminated or, after seeing their exemption requests denied, got a shot, will receive compensation as part of the $10.3 million settlement, a preliminary version […]

New Yorkers protest Covid mandates, activists arrested

New Yorkers continue protesting the city’s vax and mask mandates. Monday, December 27th marked the start of the city’s Covid vax mandate for private businesses — at this point, the only mandate of this kind in the nation. Anti-mandate protesters held another rally and marched through Brooklyn Bridge, demanding Mayor-elect Eric Adams to end the […]

How will public schools reopen? We looked at Hawaii

Hawaii public schools plan to reopen campus starting Aug. 4. But despite Hawaii’s success controlling COVID-19 state outbreaks, many teachers remain anxious about reopening. Public schools were given several options to reopen, including face-to-face, distance-learning, or a blended model. With face-to-face learning, students will report to campus classrooms with desks spaced 6-feet apart. Distance learning […]

First person gets experimental coronavirus vaccine in Seattle

While people across the country were ordered to stay home and all non-essential businesses to close down, there is some good news, too. This Monday, March 16, the first person got injected with a trial vaccine intended to prevent the novel coronavirus COVID-19 in healthy adults. The vaccine mRNA-1273 was developed by biotechnology company Moderna Inc […]

BREAKING: Two federal judges block two of Biden’s vaccine mandates in one day

In a major blow to an effort of establishing widespread nationwide mandatory vaccinations against COVID-19, two vaccine mandates have been blocked by two federal judges this Tuesday. Louisiana U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty blocked a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers, issuing a nationwide injunction. This decision follows an identical ruling Monday from Missouri […]

Biden drops vaccine mandate for private employers two weeks after Supreme Court ruled against it

The Biden Administration has officially dropped its emergency rule that required all private employers with over 100 employees to subject their staff to a mandatory vaccination against COVID-19. The decision comes in two weeks after the Supreme Court ruling that blocked the policy citing the federal government overreach. According to the Labor Department’s official statement, […]