COVID gave rise to vaccine skepticism. That may affect preparedness for next pandemic
One in four Republican parents is now skipping or delaying some childhood vaccines for their kids, such as the MMR vaccine ...
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Trump and HHS claw back $80 million in COVID-19 relief funds from New Hampshire
The federal government announced it was revoking unspent, leftover, post-pandemic COVID-19 relief funding, including $80 ...
More Americans worried about financial issues: Gallup
More Americans now are worried about financial issues, including affordability, inflation and the federal budget deficit, ...
GOP lawmakers sink House Speaker Johnson's effort to block remote voting push for new parents
Nine Republicans joined with all Democrats to vote against a procedural rule to advance a package of GOP-led bills over the ...
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Authors of ‘In Covid’s Wake’ on their criticism of the government’s pandemic response
Five years ago, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a pandemic. That launched widespread shutdowns, mandates for masks and vaccines and caused enormous social and economic ...
New NIH director seeks to use ‘gold standard science’ to win back trust in health
NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya stressed against censorship within the organization, as this would get in the way of ...
Speaker Johnson fails to squash proxy voting effort from new moms in Congress
Speaker Mike Johnson rails against proxy voting, as Trump pushes people back to work in the aftermath of the COVID-19 ...
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are still targets of hatred 5 years after pandemic surge
Anna Wong had gone her entire adulthood in Los Angeles without ever facing blatantly racist abuse for being Asian. After ...
House GOP leaders play hardball to stop Luna push for proxy voting for new parents
House Republican leaders are playing hardball as they try to stop Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) from triggering a vote on a ...
She refused COVID shot for work. Kansas vaccine law could now be struck down
The Kansas Supreme Court is weighing whether to block a sweeping state law that lets workers easily bypass COVID-19 vaccine ...
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US Senate Republican Ron Johnson says advancing Trump agenda depends on spending cuts
He called on Republican leaders to create a review process to find additional cuts in the federal budget. Sign up here. "Without a commitment to returning to some reasonable pre-pandemic spending ...