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January 26, 2022

Boston father removed from heart transplant list over vaccine deteriorating 'so much, so quickly,' family says

The Boston man who was removed from the heart transplant list for not getting the COVID-19 vaccine was left fighting for his life on Tuesday after undergoing emergency open-heart surgery, his family told Tucker Carlson.

January 26, 2022

Vaccine mandate deadline to start for first wave of health care workers

Health care workers in about half the states face a Thursday deadline to get their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine under a Biden administration mandate that will be rolled out across the rest of the country.

January 26, 2022

Psaki: 'Fully vaccinated' doesn't mean you're 'up-to-date' on vaccinations

White House press secretary Jen Psaki Wednesday touched on the reported retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, President Biden's negotiations with China, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

January 26, 2022

Denmark ending most Covid restrictions, while neighbor Sweden extends theirs

Denmark will scrap most COVID pandemic restrictions next week as neighboring Sweden extends its own measures for another two weeks.

January 26, 2022

White women yell 'Black lives matter' while assaulting maskless Black man on video: 'You just hit me'

Viral video shows two White women berating a Black man allegedly over him not wearing a face mask while repeating the phrase, 'Black Lives Matter.'

January 26, 2022

GOP senators press Biden admin for answers on 'politically motivated' attacks against parents

Republican senators are requesting a formal investigation into the Biden administration's alleged coordination with the National School Boards Association (NSBA) and the National Education Association (NEA) and whether those relationships were used to silence parents critical of schools' COVID-19 and critical race theory policies.

January 26, 2022

CDC data shows omicron accounts for 99.9% of new cases as experts investigate sub-variant

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows the omicron variant of the coronavirus now accounts for 99.9% of new COVID-19 cases. This comes as the World Health Organization (WHO) and health officials are keeping their eyes on a COVID-19 sub-variant called BA.2.

January 26, 2022

New York school refuses to let maskless students into classes despite judge's ruling

A Long, Island New York high school student said Wednesday she was denied entry to her classes despite a New York Supreme Court judge ruling the governor's mask mandate unconstitutional.

January 26, 2022

Federal laboratory allegedly provided color-coded badges indicating COVID vaccine, testing status: sources

Employees at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in New York were instructed to wear a special, blue-colored badge if they received the coronavirus vaccine, according to documents and multiple former employees.

January 26, 2022

More than 1.1M children diagnosed with COVID-19 in a week, report says

More than 1.1 million children were diagnosed with COVID-19 in the week ended Jan. 20.