Infection

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

Gibraltar has an almost 100% vaccination rate but ranks 5th in the world for highest Covid-19 cases per 100k people.

Dire warnings about new variant looking increasingly alarmist.

Face coverings “unlikely to have much of an impact” in fighting Omicron.

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 medical chief says recent travel bans represent a "storm in a teacup" and that the country has only recorded "very mild cases" of the new strain.

Treasury yields slide as investors shed riskier assets and pile into havens.

The first battles in the Covid War on Children began with the lockdown, forcing kids into isolation, depriving them of education, smothering them with masks, strangling their innate joy and playfulness, and denying them contact with God-given images of human faces.

Africa's less than 6% vaccination rate and lack of mask-wearing makes it "one of the least [Covid-19] affected regions in the world," according to the World Health Organization.