Emergency

A Louisiana federal judge blocks Biden's vaccine mandate for U.S. health workers "to avoid erosion of our liberties."

A US Supreme Court shifted to the right by Donald Trump is to hear a case this week that may roll back 50 years of abortion rights.

Vaccine mandates are hurting hospitals, as a judge blocks Biden’s on healthcare workers.

On Nov. 19, Health Canada authorized the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds. Its decision followed in the footsteps of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorization on Oct. 29 for the same age group.

"Their symptoms were so different and so mild from those I had treated before."

In an exclusive interview with The Defender, Amy Bolin said in order to be approved for a double-lung transplant, her husband had to be fully vaccinated for COVID even though he’d had the virus and recovered. After his second Moderna shot, he developed a pulmonary embolism and heart condition and died before he could get new lungs.

The South African doctor who first alerted the scientific community to a new SARS-CoV-2 — B.1.1.529, which the World Health Organization has dubbed "Omicron" — has described symptoms of the variant as "unusual, but mild."

South Africa's Health Minister Joe Phaahla said the move to place travel restrictions on the country amid fears over the new COVID-19 variant is "unjustified" at a media briefing on Friday, CNBC reported.

Previous tweets from President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are igniting accusations of hypocrisy after the administration announced a travel ban in response to a new COVID-19 variant.

Joe Biden, now banning travel from South Africa amid fear of spreading the new Covid-19 mutation, at one point referred to Trump as xenophobic for banning travel from China for the same reason.