Vaccine wait is longer for children
Tara Bahrampour, The Washington Post
Feb. 15, 2021
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Amelie Gueorguieva and her mother, Anna Gueorguieva, pose near Bancroft Elementary School in the District of Columbia on Feb. 4, 2021.Washington Post photo by Matt McClain
WASHINGTON - Anna Gueorguieva had big plans for 2021: After she and her 10-year-old daughter Amelie got the coronavirus vaccine, they would visit Gueorguieva s parents in Bulgaria and maybe also travel through Asia. In the fall, Amelie would return to school for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
But when Gueorguieva, a World Bank senior economist who lives in the District of Columbia, asked her doctor when children in D.C. would be immunized, she learned that there are no vaccines yet available for kids her daughter s age, and none on the horizon.
Biden faces pandemic without key health officials in their posts
Josh Wingrove, Bloomberg
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Xavier Becerra, then California s attorney general, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 12, 2019.Bloomberg photo by Al Drago.
President Joe Biden is fighting his war against the coronavirus shorthanded, as delays in the Senate and by his own White House have left several top U.S. health posts unfilled.
Biden s team lacks a confirmed Health and Human Services secretary and surgeon general. And the president has yet to name permanent heads for the Food and Drug Administration, which approves vaccines, or the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which administers the government s two large health programs for elderly, disabled and low-income people. Other roles are also unfilled.
https://www.afinalwarning.com/492432.html (Natural News) The Wisconsin State Senate has overturned a mask mandate ordered by its governor. The state senators voted on Jan. 26 to repeal the mask-wearing order of Gov. Tony Evers. The governor’s order took effect in August 2020, and was originally set to expire in March this year. Republicans in the Wisconsin legislature had been fighting the measure for months now, calling it an overreach of the governor’s powers.
The senators voted 18-13 to repeal Evers’ mandate, which was implemented amid the ongoing Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. Two GOP members joined Democrats in the Wisconsin senate in an unsuccessful effort to strike down the anti-mask resolution. About two dozen health groups had lobbied against scrapping the mask-wearing order, including the Wisconsin Medical Society. They argued that masks were a necessity until such time the Wuhan coronavirus vaccine is widely administered.
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., was appointed Director of NIAID in 1984. He oversees an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat established infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis and malaria as well as emerging diseases such as Ebola and Zika. Contributed Photo / NIAID
The nationâs fight against COVID-19 brought Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, back into the public arena. Dr. Fauci has been at the forefront of the United Stateâs battle against COVID-19 since the virus arrived last winter, and since then, a new generation has quickly become familiar with the man previously known for his work during the AIDS epidemic.Â