#Focus on vaxxing the unvaxxed — not boosting the booster

#Focus on vaxxing the unvaxxed — not boosting the booster

“Focus on vaxxing the unvaxxed — not boosting the booster” “Another booster!” “I always knew these vaccines didn’t work.” “Do we even need to get vaccinated anymore?” These are the questions that began to fill my in-box almost immediately after the manufacturers of both mRNA vaccines asked the FDA to approve a second booster shot…

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#Moderna CEO sold 8 million in company stock since pandemic

#Moderna CEO sold $408 million in company stock since pandemic

“Moderna CEO sold $408 million in company stock since pandemic” Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel has sold $408 million in company stock since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, during which the firm’s share price soared more than 600% while it developed and rolled out its vaccine. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotech firm developed the second-most popular…

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#Please, New Yorkers, just let the masks slide!

#Please, New Yorkers, just let the masks slide!

“Please, New Yorkers, just let the masks slide!” I live on the Upper West Side. I am a former Food and Drug Administration associate commissioner, run a not-for-profit public-health policy institute and am a visiting professor at the University of Paris Medical School. Despite my bona fides, I can’t get my neighbors or dog-park acquaintances…

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#Why Putin won’t pull out and other commentary

#Why Putin won’t pull out and other commentary

“Why Putin won’t pull out and other commentary” Foreign desk: Putin Won’t Pull Out Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine war “will get uglier,” predicts Walter Russell Mead at The Wall Street Journal. The autocrat “is no doubt dismayed by the cascade of bad news” as his forces flounder, but “knows that his future in power, his freedom…

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#Broadway to keep COVID vaccine, mask mandate through April

#Broadway to keep COVID vaccine, mask mandate through April

“Broadway to keep COVID vaccine, mask mandate through April” Broadway will maintain its mask and vaccine policies through April despite Mayor Eric Adams rolling back many COVID-19 mandates starting Monday. “Our current guidance is through April 30, and we are scheduled to update that guidance on April 1,” Broadway League president Charlotte St. Martin said…

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#Canadian COVID mandate protesters block US border in British Columbia

#Canadian COVID mandate protesters block US border in British Columbia

“#Canadian COVID mandate protesters block US border in British Columbia” As Canadian police continued clearing “Freedom Convoy” trucker demonstrators out of the capital in Ottawa on Saturday, protests over COVID restrictions continued in the nation’s west for a fourth straight weekend. Convoys of vehicles carrying vaccine-mandate protesters made their way to Pacific Highway border crossing…

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#Canadian police arrest over 100 people in trucker protests

#Canadian police arrest over 100 people in trucker protests

“#Canadian police arrest over 100 people in trucker protests” Canadian police arrested more than 100 “Freedom Convoy” demonstrators Friday in a bid to quash the three-week blockade in the capital over COVID-19 restrictions. Hundreds of officers, some in riot gear and carrying automatic weapons, descended on the clogged streets at the heart of Ottawa in…

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