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New York City has issued fines to over a dozen businesses for violating Mayor Bill de Blasio’s (D) vaccine passport requirements, the mayor announced this week.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Thursday doubled down on his opposition to coronavirus vaccine mandates, warning they will “absolutely” have a negative impact on the economy and cause sectors of the economy — some of which are already facing staffing shortages — to suffer even further.

Virginia Democrat gubernatorial hopeful Terry McAuliffe this week snapped after being confronted on his position on education issues, as more parents are rising up and confronting school board leaders, bizarrely switching the subject by asking the questioner if he had been vaccinated.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is questioning the evidence provided by Johnson & Johnson in its application for authorization of its coronavirus booster shot, according to a document released prior to the October 15 meeting with FDA vaccine advisers. 

A vaccinated Ohio man who is in dire need of a new kidney is having his surgery delayed due to the Cleveland Clinic’s new policy requiring coronavirus vaccinations for organ transplant recipients and donors.

Vaccines mandates for those with natural immunity to the coronavirus are about “control” and “narrative,” Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC), a practicing urologist, said on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow. He remarked, “We’re seeing the

The British government has embarked on a pressure campaign to make parents get their children vaccinated or potentially risk losing the ability for their kids to attend school in person.

A quarter of Americans indicated that they either are not getting the vaccine for the Chinese coronavirus, or they are not sure, and a majority of those who remain unvaccinated say they will not get the shot, a Yahoo! News/YouGov survey released this week found.

Sir Graham Brady said he will resist the mission creep of coronavirus vaccine passports into a social credit score “at all costs”.

The Walt Disney Co. is reportedly rolling out a sticker system to use on the sets of its movie and TV productions as a way to distinguish workers who have received the COVID-19 vaccination.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a leading critic of Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Biden administration’s pandemic response, blasted the White House chief medical adviser on Tuesday for ignoring the science of natural immunity, pushing for mass vaccinations instead. 

Several outside experts are quietly urging the Biden administration to scale back its coronavirus booster shot campaign, according to reports.

US health officials are studying data from Israel’s military personnel to understand the risk of heart muscle inflammation in younger people after receiving the Pfizer/BioNtech’s COVID-19 booster shot.

Just slightly over 18 months since the pandemic began, the U.S. death toll from the virus now stands at 700,000.

The White House in July explicitly stated that coronavirus vaccine mandates are “not the role of the federal government” — an admission made months before President Biden announced federal vaccine mandates he was imposing on private businesses.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Friday announced a major victory for Gainesville city employees, as the city rescinded the city worker vaccine mandate after a judge granted a temporary injunction against it.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid has told unvaccinated care home staff to “get vaccinated” or “go and get another job” as the deadline for care staff to be double vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus approaches.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) grilled Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, questioning the secretary for recently mocking coronavirus survivors — who have natural immunity —  as “flat-earthers” for choosing not to get the vaccine.

A group of demonstrators gathered near United Hospital Center in Bridgeport, West Virginia, this week in protest of vaccine mandates imposed upon healthcare workers. 

Opinions on vaccine mandates largely shift based on political party, as Democrats overwhelmingly support the concept and Republicans oppose, a Thursday poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found.

It “is a completely false narrative that people are not getting vaccinated because of me,” Anthony Fauci told Hugh Hewitt on Wednesday.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) extended the statewide mask mandate on Tuesday yet again, declaring that “masks have been proven to help slow the spread” of the Chinese coronavirus.

Republican Glenn Youngkin and former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) faced off Tuesday night in their second and final gubernatorial debate, an event filled with heated commentary about issues such as vaccine mandates and abortion alongside attempts to characterize each other as lying, extremist candidates.

Boris Johnson’s government has once again raised the spectre of imposing a vaccine passport scheme under a so-called “Plan B” for the winter.

North Carolina’s Novant Health fired 175 workers for failing to comply with the system’s mandatory vaccine policy, it announced Monday.

White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain on Tuesday touted vaccine mandates, asserting they make “all of us safer” the day after President Joe Biden said the United States can likely go back to normal when 98 percent of Americans are vaccinated.

A South African public health official has urged compatriots to ignore “fake news” that claims the coronavirus vaccines were designed to kill black people, noting that they are being taken by people from a variety of racial backgrounds.

Connecticut’s vaccine mandate requiring state employees to be vaccinated for the Chinese coronavirus goes into effect Monday, and hundreds of bus drivers are expected to not show up to work in protest.

London’s Metropolitan Police shut down a peaceful protest against vaccine passports and other coronavirus restrictions on Saturday.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on Sunday agreed with predictions of “normal life” returning within a year, although he provided a caveat to his declaration, adding people should not “be able to live our lives without having” vaccinations.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) issued a call Wednesday to the state’s General Assembly to convene in a special session to approve an extension of his emergency pandemic powers through February 15.

Only a “few” Afghans awaiting entry to the United States, as part of President Joe Biden’s massive resettlement operation, have their vaccination records, CNN reports. 

Unvaccinated Austrian populist Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Herbert Kickl could be banned from attending large political events as the city of Vienna tightens its Wuhan virus rules.

Rochelle Walensky, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), bucked the decision of her agency’s own advisory panel and is now recommending vaccine booster shots for frontline workers.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s personal vaccine passport QR code has been leaked, raising privacy concerns about the system.

Just 20 per cent of prostitutes in Greece have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus, claims an association representing sex workers.