The effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccine booster doses dropped well under 50 percent after four months against subvariants of the virus that causes COVID-19, according to a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
More than 79% of the United States population is vaccinated, raising questions about the COVID vaccine's efficacy.
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A district court judge in Ohio granted a temporary injunction Thursday against the Air Force's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all of the branch's members requesting a religious exemption.
Tennis champion Novak Djokovic, who last weekend won his fourth straight title at Wimbledon, said he has no plans to get vaccinated in order to bypass restrictions to enter the U.S. for the U.S. Open in August.
A majority of people in Texas and half the people in Louisiana want their states to peacefully break off from the increasingly corrupt federal United States government, according to polling data released by SurveyUSA. A full sixty percent of Texans would support secession, while half of Louisianians would support it, according to the numbers. Meanwhile, pro-secession sentiment is competitive with Tory sentiment in states including Alabama and Mississippi.
Philadelphia Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto — one of several players on the squad barred from crossing the border into Canada to play against the Toronto Blue Jays this week because he's unvaccinated against COVID-19 — was defiant about the restriction placed upon him.
