January 9, 2022 Moderna CEO pushes for second COVID-19 booster shot, but doctors aren't yet convinced it's necessary During its third-quarter earnings results report, Moderna said commercial booster market sales could be up to $2 billion in the United States in 2022.
January 9, 2022 Omicron wave receding at global epicenter, CDC cautiously optimistic The omicron wave that has whiplashed the world with surging cases has peaked after approximately four weeks in a large South African hospital in the City of Tshwane where the global outbreak first started, according to a recent paper.
January 9, 2022 Chicago Mayor Lightfoot slams teachers' union for 'illegal walk-out,' rejects proposal for remote learning Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot insisted Sunday her team is doing everything they can to reach a deal with the city’s teacher’s union so that children can return to classrooms Monday.
January 9, 2022 Washington Post blasts Sotomayor for ‘false’ COVID claim that ‘over 100K’ children are in 'serious condition’ The Washington Post slammed Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor over her “false” claim that more than 100,000 children are “in serious condition,” many of them on ventilators, because of COVID-19.
January 9, 2022 CNN panelist blasts Biden admin's 'huge mistake' on testing: 'It's the worst kind of problem' Washington Post columnist hits the Biden White House on botching handling of COVID-19 testing.
January 9, 2022 Walensky says Sotomayor's pediatric COVID hospitalization number was off dramatically CDC Director Rochelle Walensky clarified that the number of children hospitalized with COVID-19 is nowhere close to the statistic put forth by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Friday, while noting that Americans can still work to reduce hospitalization by getting vaccinated.
January 9, 2022 Arizona hospital's 'staffing crisis' means COVID-positive, symptomatic employees permitted to work A health system operating in Maricopa County, Arizona, will allow COVID-positive employees to continue working.
January 9, 2022 DeSantis: Biden, Fauci 'hostile' to those focusing on COVID treatments in addition to vaccines The Biden administration and much of the media continues to be hostile toward Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis despite the Palm Coast Republican's success in battling the coronavirus pandemic.
January 9, 2022 California hospitals went from mandating vaccines to forcing COVID-positive health care employees to work New California health guidance outlines hospitals and other care providers can force COVID-postive healthcare workers to continue working if they are asymptomatic.
January 9, 2022 Omicron, delta have fused into new 'deltacron' strain, Cyprus professor finds A new strain of the coronavirus appears to be a genetic fusion of currently known omicron and delta variants, a researcher claims.