New York City Adopts Vaccine Passports
Mayor Bill de Blasio's "Key to NYC" initiative will require people to get their shots in order to enter the city's bars, restaurants, gyms, and other indoor venues.
Mayor Bill de Blasio's "Key to NYC" initiative will require people to get their shots in order to enter the city's bars, restaurants, gyms, and other indoor venues.
to ban such "nonconsensual and knowing approach[es] within 30 feet of another person ... for the purpose of passing a leaflet ..., displaying a sign to, or engaging in oral protest, education, or counseling" "in connection with any vaccination services."
The administration is dismayed by the alarmist news coverage it invited.
Researchers are still trying to determine what role vaccinated carriers may have played in the Massachusetts cases identified by the CDC.
The agency says it found high viral loads in vaccinated people infected by the coronavirus, but the significance of those results is unclear.
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The government is also recommending universal masking in schools this fall.
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The vaccines are available. The masks are beside the point.
The administration’s public pressure campaign against COVID-19 "misinformation" cannot be reconciled with its avowed respect for freedom of expression.
Federal health bureaucrats should stop scapegoating social media.
Also, regulation is (still) not the answer to online misinformation.
Speech is protected by the First Amendment even when it discourages vaccination.
It could, if it actually had the vast public health powers that the Biden administration claims it does.
It's not "freedom" to tell business owners they have to let unvaccinated people onto their premises.
Daily U.S. COVID-19 deaths are approaching the influenza average.
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And it's easier to distribute than the current vaccines, which require ultra-cold storage.
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And hope for the future (still) lies outside of the state.
This new initiative will "help people meet people who have that universally attractive quality: They've been vaccinated from COVID-19," said White House COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt.
The paper gives short shrift to evidence that vaccines nearly eliminate the risk of infection.
At critical junctures, the FDA slowed vaccine development and rollout. Its decisions almost certainly cost lives.
The agency continues a pattern of arbitrary, dubious, and ever-changing recommendations.
The CDC's recommendations have never been purely a matter of science.
New CDC guidelines strengthen the already compelling case for doing so.
Local officials should end most pandemic restrictions immediately.
It's less dumb than it sounds.
The flawed documents seem destined to be part of life long after the reason for their existence is gone.
The agency's disease advice is seen as increasingly irrelevant by more Americans.
Doing so will protect constitutional rights, reduce vaccine hesitancy, and increase liberty - all at once.
This feel-good gesture will discourage future investment and innovation.
The pharmaceutical industry is on track to supply enough doses to vaccinate 7 billion people this year.
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The emphasis on a goal that may be impossible to reach reduces the incentive to get vaccinated.
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Physician Rand Paul is curiously absent.
Who could possibly have known that that would happen?
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