Fans of the Brooklyn Nets have protested outside the team’s Barclays Center arena in support of star player Kyrie Irving, who remains unable to play games in New York because of the city’s Covid vaccine mandate policy. Seven-time NBA All-Star Irving remains barred from playing home games for his team despite …
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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has signed a letter demanding Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and US President Joe Biden “drop the cross-border vaccine mandate” in place for truckers, a mandate which originally kicked off massive protests in Canada against Covid-19 vaccine requirements. Along with Kenney’s signature, the letter is endorsed …
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Using the Russia-developed Sputnik Light vaccine together with the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab against Covid-19 appears to be safe, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said in a statement on Monday. The Russian sovereign wealth fund cited preliminary results of clinical trials conducted jointly by producers of the two vaccines in several …
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US multinational Johnson & Johnson suspended production of its Covid-19 vaccine late last year amid a massive push by the federal government and health officials to promote getting inoculated, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the situation. The pause in production is reportedly temporary, but …
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US Army commanders are to initiate “involuntary administrative separation proceedings” against any soldier refusing to get a Covid-19 vaccine, the Army said in a statement on Wednesday, citing a fresh directive by Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth. The order applies to regular army soldiers, active-duty army reservists, and cadets. …
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Two New York nurses have been arrested for allegedly selling fake Covid-19 vaccination cards, and making more than $1.5 million in the process. The Suffolk County district attorney’s office announced the two nurses working in Long Island, 49-year-old Julie Devuono and 44-year-old Marissa Urraro, had forged vaccine cards from last …
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Australian prime minister Scott Morrison has cautioned Kanye West – whose legal name is ‘Ye’ – that he must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 to enter the country. The warning comes after reports emerged about the US hip-hop star – whose vaccination status is unclear – apparently planning a concert …
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The world-famous coffee giant Starbucks has come under fire for scrapping the Covid-19 vaccine mandate, with calls to ‘boycott Starbucks’ flooding social media. Both customers and Starbucks baristas say they refuse to support a place, no matter how iconic, which does not require employee vaccinations. “Who wants unvaccinated people handling …
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State Sen. Richard Pan introduced the Keep Schools Open and Safe Act on Monday, which would nix exemptions from the Covid vaccine based on personal beliefs. Pan, a pediatrician who represents a Sacramento area, said that the pandemic has caused “disruption, anxiety, and trauma” for families in the state, and …
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Sputnik V produces a better neutralizing antibody response to Omicron than the mRNA vaccines, Professor Hildegund Ertl, one of the top US vaccine specialists, said, according to a statement posted on Sputnik V Twitter page on Monday. The vaccine and immunotherapy researcher working at the Wistar Institute located in Philadelphia, …
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