In the very early days of COVID-19, even before the worldwide spread had prompted its classification as a “pandemic,” one group of researchers put out a devastating prediction of what they said was about to happen.
“One critical report, published on March 16, 2020, received international attention when it predicted 2,200,000 deaths in the USA and 510,000 deaths in the UK without some kind of coordinated pandemic response. This information became foundational in decisions to implement physical distancing and adherence to other public health measures because it established the upper boundary for any worst-case scenarios,” Lancet <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(21)00029-X/fulltext">reported</a> at the time.
The <a href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf">report</a> came from the Imperial College London and prompted much action in the U.S., including, as cited above, the distancing that has become de rigueur, but also widespread lockdowns and masks mandates.
That prediction never happened. The U.S. last week marked a grim milestone — 1 million Americans dead either from or “with” COVID-19 — but that’s fewer than half of what the college said would happen. In Britain, the total stands just above 190,000 dead, <a href="https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6">according</a> to the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
Now, of course, no one really knew anything about this coronavirus when it emerged. And sure, one could argue that it might be better to take more action rather than less to avert catastrophe. But it can also be argued that an overreaction — prompted by such a dire prediction — also led to disastrous results in the U.S. and global economy, and perhaps we all should have waited for actual data before setting a course.
Either way, we now know far more than we did way back in March 2020. We know COVID-19 hits the elderly and those with comorbidities hardest. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft who has become a philanthropist seeking to end the scourge of malaria, <a href="https://www.kusi.com/bill-gates-says-covid-is-kind-of-like-the-flu-and-that-the-vaccines-are-imperfect/">summed it up</a> best last week: “We didn’t understand that it’s a fairly low fatality rate and that it’s a disease mainly in the elderly, kind of like flu is, although a bit different than that.”
We also know that we’re likely to live with the virus for quite some time, perhaps forever, as we do with the flu. And we know that COVID-19 — just like most other viruses — is getting weaker with each mutation and that the Omicron variant is the least deadly yet, causing many to have only mild symptoms if they have any symptoms at all.
Finally, it turns out that nearly 60% of the U.S. population and about 75% of children have coronavirus antibodies, indicating that they had been infected, according to <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7117e3.htm?s_cid=mm7117e3_w">data collected</a> from a study of blood samples across the country and released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In December 2021, around one-third of Americans had such antibodies.
That’s a lot of throat-clearing to get to this: Why would the White House predict — as it did last week — that 100 million COVID-19 cases will hit America unless the federal government receives billions in taxpayer funding to combat the virus?
Forget that, when he took office, President Joe Biden pledged to “shut down” the virus and that more than 600,000 of the million-plus dead died on his watch, what would prompt such a breathtaking prediction?
The answer is simple: money.
“The White House is sharing these estimates as officials renew their push to get Congress to approve additional funding to combat the virus and as the nation approaches a coronavirus death toll of 1 million,” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins said.
The Daily Mail also reported that Biden is seeking approval from Congress for more funding, upwards of $22.5 billion, “to allow the federal government to continue to purchase tests, therapeutics and continue other virus surveillance and prevention measures into the future.”
While the prediction was roundly blasted by Republicans and conservatives, even one former Biden official ripped the White House.
“I’ve seen no data which supports the possibility of a fall or winter surge in the U.S. resulting in 100 million cases. No one should make that kind of statement without providing the assumptions behind that number,” said Michael Osterholm, a former member of Biden’s COVID-19 advisory board.
“Any modeling that looks beyond 30 days out is largely based on pixie dust. I worry that the White House has gotten way ahead of their skis on this one,” Osterholm said.
But it’s never really been about truth and accuracy, has it? Biden wants billions more to spread around, even though Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. immunologist, said last month that America is out of the “pandemic phase” (a bold statement he almost immediately walked back, presumably after someone in the White House said he should).
No, it’s always been about fear for the White House — and ratings for the media. So frightening Americans with dire — but unsubstantiated — predictions is all about the money.
As they say in those goofy PSAs, “the more you know,” huh?
The views expressed in this piece are the author&#8217;s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl covered the White House for a dozen years and ran the Drudge Report for four years. He can be reached at josephcurl@dailywire.com and on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/josephcurl">@JosephCurl</a>. A version of this article ran previously in The Washington Times.

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NBA star Jonathan Isaac explained to Megyn Kelly why he decided to open up about his past struggles and his journey to faith, which led to standing up against Black Lives Matter and COVID-19 vaccine mandates in his new book &#8220;Why I Stand.”
During SiriusXM’s &#8220;The Megyn Kelly Show&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGpO1z9G0wE">podcast</a>, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/espn-host-posts-poll-is-it-funny-that-1st-nba-player-not-to-kneel-an-ordained-christian-minister-suffered-season-ending-injury">Orlando Magic power forward</a> told the host about how he grew up as a child in the Bronx in New York with his &#8220;mom, my dad and … three brothers and one sister. … Everything was great.&#8221; He said they &#8220;went to church all the time … church was just tradition for us.&#8221; It starts at the 51:32 minute mark <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGpO1z9G0wE">here</a>.
But Isaac said when he was &#8220;10 years old, my parents split up, and that&#8217;s when kind of everything started to go wrong in my life. … My mom took us kids and left my dad … and I went to Naples, Florida.”
&#8220;I went from black New York to white Naples, Florida,&#8221; the professional basketball player shared. &#8220;And I really struggled with fitting in and making friends and kind of getting adjusted to everything. So I really developed a sense of self consciousness that I never experienced before … anxiety and fear about getting my peers to like me.”
&#8220;But I found basketball, and basketball pretty much became my identity because it got me everything that I thought I ever wanted,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The girls liked me now. The guys wanted to play ball with me, so I started to have a sense of belonging. But I still struggled with that anxiety and fear behind the scenes because I always felt that I was going to be the one to mess it all up.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nba-star-jonathan-isaac-talks-faith-reveals-why-he-refused-to-kneel-for-black-lives-matter">The NBA star</a> said he went on to college and then got drafted to the NBA in 2017 by the Orlando Magic, and explained that it wasn’t until he got drafted by the NBA that he finally thought &#8220;wow&#8221; and realized he did have skills and was talented. But he admitted that he &#8220;wasn’t all the way there with God when I got drafted.&#8221;
Isaac told Kelly how his mom, &#8220;this tough&#8221; woman, always affirmed him when he did well, but when he did poorly, she would say things like he &#8220;wasn&#8217;t playing up to his potential, or you&#8217;re being weak.&#8221; He shared how he would later meet two people who would prop him up &#8220;no matter how he played&#8221; or &#8220;what the scoreboard&#8221; said, and that&#8217;s the woman who would be his wife, and the man who called himself Doc.
&#8220;The biggest thing for me … was just coming to the realization that God loves me for me, like I don&#8217;t have to perform for his love, I don&#8217;t have to be perfect for his love,&#8221; Isaac told the host. &#8220;And that was the first time that I had this sense of calm and peace.&#8221;
&#8220;I believe that God uses people, and in my story God definitely used people; he used Doc, he used my wife, he used my church family, he used my family to kind of help foster that in me and teach me what the love of God was like on a personal level … having bad games in the league and still being encouraged, still being affirmed. … That was the turning tide for me,&#8221; he added.
The Orlando star explained how he met Doc, this guy who just stopped him in the elevator, who didn&#8217;t know him, and told him, &#8220;I can tell you how to be great. &#8230; Doc didn&#8217;t know anything about what I was going with behind the scenes or anything that I was struggling with … but God knew. … From then on, my life honestly just gets flipped upside down.&#8221;
Doc ended up actually being a pastor and Jonathan said he started going back to church.
Fast forward to May 2020, after George Floyd&#8217;s death and the Black Lives Matter movement hits. Isaac becomes the first professional basketball player in the 2020 NBA bubble to remain standing during the playing of the national anthem, even when his teammates kneeled in support of BLM.
&#8220;So, what happened to George Floyd was obviously tragic … what I tried my best to do was to take a step back and say, ‘What is the right way for me to respond in a way that can bring the most change?’” Isaac shared, as his teammates decided to kneel and wear a Black Lives Matter t-shirt for the movement. &#8220;Again, I couldn&#8217;t see, you know, seeing all the things that were going on at the moment, I&#8217;m thinking for myself what is the answer.&#8221;
&#8220;And for me, I didn&#8217;t see what was going on with kneeling for the national anthem and wearing a t-shirt. … And so, as I looked at my own life and said, &#8216;I know what has changed me, I know what has helped me, I know what has helped countless people … that&#8217;s the gospel and that&#8217;s the love of Jesus Christ,’ if we’re willing to show it and share it,” he added. &#8220;That’s why I decided to stand. … Racism is not the only thing that plagues the hearts of men. But I know that the gospel does changes the hearts of men.&#8221;
Later, Kelly asked the NBA star where he was politically, and she said he sounded &#8220;conservative.&#8221; He said what he&#8217;s tried his best to do is let his Christianity guide him when it comes to voting, so &#8220;let people pick from that where they may.&#8221; When pressed further if Isaac would ever run for political office, he definitely made it sound like a possibility, someday.
&#8220;When I see what people have to go through … I don&#8217;t know if I would be up for subjecting myself to something like that … but at the same time, I see the need for leaders who are willing … can speak and can be vocal and have a moral compass and courage and all of that,&#8221; Isaac shared.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not something that I would throw away,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But right now, I&#8217;m just playing ball and I am just trying my best to walk out my Christianity the best I know how.&#8221;
&#8220;Why I Stand&#8221; is available in hardcover from DW Books <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Why-I-Stand-Jonathan-Isaac/dp/1956007067">here</a>.

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Legendary rocker Eric Clapton announced he&#8217;s tested positive for COVID-19 after he got vaccinated against it, and now has to postpone his shows in Zurich and Milan.
A lengthy message on the 77-year-old&#8217;s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ericclapton">Facebook page</a> Monday explained that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eric-clapton-says-he-reserves-the-right-to-cancel-shows-at-venues-that-require-proof-of-vaccination">Clapton</a> was &#8220;unfortunately suffering from COVID having tested positive shortly after&#8221; one of his concerts at the &#8220;Royal Albert Hall.&#8221; He had previously taken the vaccine, though he claimed to have had severe complications, and later became a strong advocate against forcing people to get the shot.
&#8220;He [Clapton] has been told by his medical advisors that if he were to resume traveling and performing too soon, it could substantially delay his full recovery,&#8221; the message read. &#8220;Eric is also anxious to avoid passing on any infection to any of his band, crew, promoters, their staff and of course the fans.&#8221;
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&#8220;So, after intensive internal discussion, it has been decided with great regret and apologies to all those concerned to postpone the performances in Zurich on 17th May and Milan on 18th May, the present hope being to be able to resume the tour starting with the concerts in Bologna on 20th and 21st May,&#8221; the message added.
&#8220;It is very frustrating that having avoided COVID throughout lockdown and throughout the period when travel restrictions have been in place Eric should have succumbed to COVID at this point in time, but we very much hope he will be sufficiently recovered by the end of the week to be able to perform the remainder of the planned performances,&#8221; the message continued. &#8220;A further announcement will be made concerning the rescheduling of the postposed shows once suitable dates can be identified.&#8221;
The message concluded by sharing that more details would be coming soon and that the &#8220;shows are due to be rescheduled within the next 6 months.&#8221;
In 2021, Clapton said he suffered &#8220;<a href="https://nypost.com/2021/05/17/eric-clapton-details-disastrous-covid-vaccine-effects/">severe reactions</a> that lasted 10 days&#8221; following his AstraZeneca shots and made headlines in December 2020 when he came out with an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-constitution-whats-it-worth-eric-clapton-van-morrison-release-anti-lockdown-song">anti-lockdown song</a> with Van Morrison.
&#8220;Do you wanna&#8217; be a free man or do you wanna be a slave?&#8221; Clapton sings in the song titled &#8220;Stand and Deliver.&#8221; &#8220;Do you wanna&#8217; wear these chains until you&#8217;re lying in the grave?&#8221;
Other lyrics include: &#8220;Magna Carta, Bill of Rights/ The Constitution, what&#8217;s it worth?/ You know they&#8217;re gonna&#8217; grind us down, ah/ Until it really hurts/ Is this a sovereign nation/ Or just a police state?/ You better look out, people/ Before it gets too late.&#8221;
The full song can be heard <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMkV4vYr_ik&amp;t=5s">here</a>.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration">White House</a> admitted Friday its claim a day earlier that there was no <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19">COVID-19 vaccination</a> when President Joe Biden took office was a case of misinformation.
The administration was widely criticized after a Thursday tweet aimed at showing Biden&#8217;s progress since taking office included the obviously false claim. Biden himself had received <a href="https://twitter.com/JerylBier/status/1524924854956326941?s=20&amp;t=E9B5ZkaF20lOam67dhcLRA">his first COVID vaccination shot</a> a full month before being sworn in.
&#8220;When President Biden took office, millions were unemployed and there was no vaccine available,&#8221; the tweet claimed.
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When President Biden took office, millions were unemployed and there was no vaccine available.
In the last 15 months, the economy has created 8.3M jobs and the unemployment rate stands at 3.6% — the fastest decline in unemployment to start a President&#39;s term ever recorded.
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On Friday night, the White House admitted the tweet was mistaken, even as it sought to credit Biden with the larger rollout of the vaccines created under the &#8220;Operation Warp Speed&#8221; program of his predecessor, former President Trump.
&#8220;We previously misstated that vaccines were unavailable in January 2021,&#8221; the White House corrected itself. &#8220;We should have said that they were not widely available. Vaccines became available shortly before the President came into office. Since then, he’s responsible for fully vaccinating over 200 million people.&#8221;
By the time Biden was sworn in, both Moderna&#8217;s and Pfizer&#8217;s COVID vaccinations had been authorized for emergency use and about 1 million Americans per day were getting them. Biden himself had already received his second shot more than a week before his inauguration.
The backlash against the initial claim was so strong that even left-wing &#8220;fact checker&#8221; Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post called on the White House to &#8220;delete this false tweet.&#8221;
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Who’s manning the <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhiteHouse</a> Twitter account? Delete this false tweet. Biden himself has said 8% of seniors had gotten the vaccine on the day he took office. Biden was one of them. —&gt; <a href="https://t.co/ojDmn1DNIQ">https://t.co/ojDmn1DNIQ</a> <a href="https://t.co/V7z07DHQ90">https://t.co/V7z07DHQ90</a>
&mdash; Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) <a href="https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP/status/1524953947764572167?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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CNN&#8217;s Daniel Dale also criticized the White House over the false claim
&#8220;’There was no vaccine available’ is very clearly false,&#8221; Dale <a tabindex="0" href="https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1525093640334360576" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-t="{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}">tweeted</a>. &#8220;More than 3 million Americans were fully vaccinated and more than 18 million had at least one dose by Biden’s Inauguration Day. Biden himself was fully vaccinated.&#8221;
White House COVID point man Dr. Anthony Fauci was asked Thursday by CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper why the administration made the false claim.
&#8220;I just can&#8217;t explain it,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1525226261714554880?s=20&amp;t=E9B5ZkaF20lOam67dhcLRA">Fauci replied</a>.
Despite the fact the tweet was clearly false, Twitter has still declined to take it down.
The embarrassing 180-degree turn comes as the White House is seeking to create a new office within the Department of Homeland Security to root out false information online called the &#8220;Disinformation Governance Board.&#8221; The Biden administration&#8217;s choice to run the panel is Nina Jankowicz, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-demand-answers-from-nina-jankowicz-on-new-disinformation-governance-board">Republican lawmakers</a> say is a hardcore partisan with a dubious social media history that includes branding the Hunter Biden laptop story as a Russian disinformation campaign.
&#8220;Will the new Ministry of Truth be fact checking this absurd propaganda from the White House?&#8221; Texas Republican <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1525140569705553921?s=20&amp;t=E9B5ZkaF20lOam67dhcLRA">Rep. Dan Crenshaw asked on Twitter</a>.

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A federal court in Ohio issued a permanent injunction to stop a woman from selling fake vaccine cards, the United States Department of Justice said Thursday.
Tiffany Keller, a 39 year old from Junction City, Ohio, allegedly “advertised her services on a blog that discussed how to make fake CDC COVID-19 vaccination cards and offered to print fake cards for $40 per card and ship them to paying customers via priority mail,” the Justice Department said in a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/district-court-enters-permanent-injunction-shutting-down-fake-cdc-covid-19-vaccination-card">press release</a>. Keller sold at least 77 fake cards.
Keller’s actions were in violation of the Social Security Act. According to the release, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General can “impose a civil money penalty of up to $11,506 for each violation.”
Selling 77 cards at $40 apiece, Keller would have earned slightly over $3,000. She could likewise be liable for a penalty exceeding $885,000.
“Printing, selling and distributing fake vaccine cards undermines important efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19,” Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian M. Boynton said in the release. “The department is committed to working with our federal partners to root out this kind of unlawful activity.”
Keller agreed to be permanently enjoined from misusing words, symbols, and emblems belonging to the Department of Health and Human Services, selling fake vaccination cards, and advertising her illicit services. If she violates the agreement, she could face over $440,000 in civil penalties.
“During this time of a national emergency, individuals should not capitalize on the situation for their own greed,” U.S. Attorney Kenneth L. Parker added. “This type of fraud is particularly problematic as it could endanger the health of others.”
As various employers and government agencies mandate COVID-19 vaccines, many high-profile cases of fake vaccination cards have occurred over the past several months.
Then-Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vaccinated-antonio-brown-suspended-for-using-fake-vaccine-card">suspended</a> for three games in December by the NFL for violating the league’s COVID-19 protocols by using a fake vaccination card. “The health and safety of players and personnel is our top priority,” a statement from the NFL read. “The protocols were jointly developed working with our respective experts to ensure that we are practicing and playing football as safely as possible during the ongoing pandemic.”
In April, the New York City Department of Education (DOE) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-accuses-dozens-of-teachers-of-showing-fake-vax-cards-teachers-union-fights-back">accused</a> around 70 teachers of submitting fake COVID-19 vaccine cards — but a teachers union says the accusations are unfounded.
The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) told PIX11 News that teachers accused of showing fake vaccine cards will be placed on unpaid leave, yet UFT said the DOE doesn’t have the evidence to make such a move. “It is wholly improper for the DOE to unilaterally remove UFT members from the payroll based on mere conjecture that vaccination documentation is fraudulent,” UFT said in a letter to the DOE.
New York City required its public school teachers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of last September. “About 148,000 school employees — and contractors who work in schools — will have to get at least a first dose by Sept. 27, according to an announcement from Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio and the city health and education departments,” Pix reported at the time.

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Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and a group of 13 additional GOP senators have introduced a new bill to protect military service members from punishment for declining the COVID-19 vaccine.
The <a href="https://www.cruz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/americans_act.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Allowing Military Exemptions, Recognizing Individual Concerns About New Shots</a> (AMERICANS) Act of 2022 is designed to counter the Biden administration&#8217;s efforts to coerce and punish Armed Forces personnel, including accountability measures to increase transparency.
“It is absolutely unacceptable that the Biden administration is trying to coerce our men and women in uniform to violate their conscience and religious beliefs, let alone on an issue as polarizing as the COVID-19 vaccine. The AMERICANS Act will ensure that these and similar efforts to politicize our military on this issue are blocked,&#8221; Cruz said in a <a href="https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-cruz-colleagues-defend-service-members-from-vaccine-punishment-with-americans-act" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> regarding the bill.
Cruz previously sponsored an amendment to protect service members who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The senator also offered the vaccine exemption and reporting requirements as amendments to the most recent National Defense Authorization Act.
In addition to Cruz, GOP co-sponsors included Sens. Marco Rubio (FL), Josh Hawley (MO), Roger Marshall (KS), Ron Johnson (WI), Mike Crapo (ID), Kevin Cramer (ND), Rand Paul (KY), John Hoeven (ND), James Lankford (OK), James Risch (ID), Rick Scott (FL), Mike Braun (IN), and Steve Daines (MT).
The bill would specifically prohibit the Secretary of Defense from taking &#8220;any adverse action against a covered member based solely on the refusal of such member to receive a vaccine for COVID-19.&#8221;
The legislation would also reinstate military members who have already been dismissed due to declining a COVID-19 vaccine and &#8220;reinstate the member at the grade held by the member immediately prior to  the involuntary separation of the member.&#8221;
Last month, defense officials told Congress that about 3,400 troops have been involuntarily separated from service for refusing the mandated vaccine, <a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/coronavirus/2022/05/10/bill-would-mandate-honorable-discharge-for-all-troops-who-refuse-covid-vaccine-mandate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> the Military Times.
&#8220;Of that group, about 70% have received general discharges, a designation that allows them to receive most veterans benefits and potentially rejoin the military at a later date,&#8221; the report noted. &#8220;The other 30% have received honorable discharges. Congress last year forbade military leaders from issuing dishonorable discharges for vaccine refusal.&#8221;
The Military Times also reported that about 87% of military members are at least partially vaccinated, with nearly 100% among active-duty troops. The deadlines for the Army Reserve and National Guard are still ahead, currently scheduled for June.
Cruz ripped President Joe Biden in January claiming he was “punishing” service members for asking for a religious exemption to the vaccine.
“President Biden is wrong for punishing our Servicemembers over their religious freedom,” Cruz wrote.
“I am pleased to see a judge issued a stay against Biden’s authoritarian vaccine mandate,” he added.
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President Biden is wrong for punishing our Servicemembers over their religious freedom.
I am pleased to see a judge issued a stay against Biden’s authoritarian vaccine mandate. <a href="https://t.co/waFYUmWKCy">https://t.co/waFYUmWKCy</a>
&mdash; Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1478388453008191494?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In December, Cruz served as part of a team of conservative lawmakers who filed an <a href="https://www.cruz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/final_brief.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">amicus brief</a> in the case of U.S. Navy Seals v. Biden.
“Plaintiffs’ religious liberty and the government’s asserted interest in protecting our service members from COVID-19 need not be in conflict, especially where, as here, the individuals seeking an exemption are willing to adopt non-vaccination measures to protect themselves and others from the spread of COVID-19,” the lawmakers wrote.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced late Thursday afternoon that it has limited the authorized use of the Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine to adults who cannot receive other coronavirus vaccines.
The FDA said in a statement, &#8220;After conducting an updated analysis, evaluation and investigation of reported cases, the FDA has determined that the risk of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS), a syndrome of rare and potentially life-threatening blood clots in combination with low levels of blood platelets with onset of symptoms approximately one to two weeks following administration of the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine, warrants limiting the authorized use of the vaccine.&#8221;
The FDA said that the potential benefits for the vaccine outweighed its potential risks “for individuals 18 years of age and older for whom other authorized or approved COVID-19 vaccines are not accessible or clinically appropriate, and for individuals 18 years of age and older who elect to receive the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine because they would otherwise not receive a COVID-19 vaccine.”
Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said in a statement that the Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine still has a role in fighting the pandemic but that it would be limited to certain people.
&#8220;Today’s action demonstrates the robustness of our safety surveillance systems and our commitment to ensuring that science and data guide our decisions,&#8221; Marks wrote. &#8220;We’ve been closely monitoring the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine and occurrence of TTS following its administration and have used updated information from our safety surveillance systems to revise the EUA. The agency will continue to monitor the safety of the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine and all other vaccines, and as has been the case throughout the pandemic, will thoroughly evaluate new safety information.&#8221;
This report has been updated to include additional information.

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When COVID-19 first came ashore in America — long before scientists really knew anything about the coronavirus — the top brains said in one breathless voice: Wash your hands!
The big dogs said wash, wash, wash, maybe wear gloves, don’t touch your face, blah blah blah. Yeah, no. Turns out there’s almost no surface transmission of COVID-19. Nearly none.
Now, you would think that the smart people running things (they must be smart ’cause they’re running things, right?) would’ve said, “Hang on, let’s study this thing first, collect some data, and then come up with some conclusions and courses of action.”
But no, instead, everyone was saying everything all at the same time — and the mainstream media was laughing all the way to the bank. “It turns out the pandemic is a pretty big part of the news cycle and that’s not going away anytime soon,” WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar said in March 2021. “It turns out it’s really good for ratings.”
If it bleeds it leads, amirite?
Before the fact-checkers get their undies in a wad, let’s be clear: COVID-19 was pretty bad (for old and fat people and those with comorbidities). It did kill 993,996 Americans as of Tuesday (and if you’re keeping score at home, 596,599 came on President Biden’s watch).
For the record, 925,931 of those deaths were people 50 years old and older. And if you go “classic old” (65 and above), it turns out nearly 7 in 10 deaths (74.4) were in that age bracket. So yes, mostly “old” people.
So it’s bad, but eh, not that bad. There are 320 million people in America, so we’re talking less than a third of 1%. For comparison, COVID-19 has killed 6.3 million people worldwide; the 1918 influenza pandemic killed at least 50 million, with some estimates running as high as 100 million.
But let’s get to the real Debbie Downer of the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. immunologist.
Back in March 2020, Fauci declared, “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.”
“When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is,” the doctor said on CBS News.
Yeah, so, wrong. Turns out it’s mostly airborne.
Then this in January 2021, Fauci said wearing two masks is likely more effective than wearing one. “If you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on it, just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective,” he told NBC News.
Duh. Wrong again. In fact, mask-wearing has been proven to be barely effective, especially with the <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/01/05/cloth-masks-not-effective-omicron-covid/9091574002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Omicron variant</a>.
Jump to last week. Fauci declared on Tuesday that the “pandemic phase” is over. But that was refuted the next day — by Fauci. Yup, the doc walked it all back — maybe after a miffed Biden got to him — and said, “by no means does that mean the pandemic is over.”
Then this: Fauci announced on Thursday he would not attend the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, which was held Saturday. Fauci was invited by ABC News “and had planned on going,” CNN reported, but he “decided to abandon those plans and inform ABC that he would no longer attend because of an individual assessment of his own personal risk.”
Yup, 2,500 people in a room is too scary for the immunologist — but that didn’t keep him from attending the swanky white-tie Gridiron gala last month.
Forget all that. You’re in the Fauci Vortex, where up is down.
Finally, (hypocrisy alert) a maskless Fauci was photographed attending a packed pre-dinner brunch on Saturday afternoon. And we’ve been to that brunch in years past — it’s packed to the gills. In fact, Fauci was snapped schmoozing it up all over the brunch, all with maskless garden party goers. He do get around, don’t he?
And now, after all that, Fauci is back to his doomsday predictions about another wave of death and destruction from whatever variant is out there now.
Comedian David Spade summed it all up in a show he did Sunday just outside Washington. Speaking as Fauci, he warned, “We have no data now, but it’s gonna be worse! It’s gonna be worse than Rocky 5!”
Now that we all know just what a hypocrite Fauci is, the question must be asked: When will he just go away? He’s 81, the highest-paid employee in the entire federal government (he gets more than the president), and he keeps getting everything wrong — and not practicing what he preaches, just like all Democrats have done from the beginning.
It’s time to go, Dr. Grouchy. We’re finally — finally — onto you.
The views expressed in this piece are the author&#8217;s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl covered the White House for a dozen years and ran the Drudge Report for four years. He can be reached at josephcurl@dailywire.com and on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/josephcurl">@JosephCurl</a>. A version of this article ran previously in The Washington Times.

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A New York college student who became ill after receiving her second COVID-19 shot has been expelled from school after she refused to take a booster shot on the advice of her primary care physician.
Diamond Ellie Puentes, 20, was attending Union College on a scholarship when she was expelled from school and told she had mere days to pack up and leave the campus. She had made numerous attempts to gain a medical exemption from the booster.
&#8220;I was in class, I received an email stating, &#8216;you have been unenrolled and you have 72 hours to leave campus,'&#8221; Puentes told The Daily Wire in a phone interview.
<div id="attachment_375083" style="width: 314px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-375083" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-375083 size-large" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-28-at-2.42.45-PM-304x576.png" alt="" width="304" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-28-at-2.42.45-PM-304x576.png 304w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-28-at-2.42.45-PM-158x300.png 158w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-28-at-2.42.45-PM.png 556w" sizes="(max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px" />Courtesy of Ellie Puentes</div>
Puentes always had reservations about the COVID-19 vaccine, citing her age, worries about adverse effects, and how quickly the vaccine was developed and put to market. &#8220;It kind of freaked me out a little bit,&#8221; she told The Daily Wire.
So, she applied for a religious exemption. The school denied her, and in August, Puentes reluctantly received her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. She had no reaction, and in September received her second dose.
That&#8217;s when Puentes became sick with a sore throat and other symptoms. She later suffered from extreme abdomen pain and vomiting.
&#8220;These health problems culminated in her going to an emergency room, where she stayed for six hours and was diagnosed with gastritis,&#8221; reported <a href="https://thechicagothinker.com/exclusive-union-college-sophomore-gets-expelled-for-refusing-booster-shot-despite-her-doctor-saying-her-getting-booster-is-ill-advised/">The Chicago Thinker</a>, which first broke the story. &#8220;Seven months later, she continues to have symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea.&#8221;
According to the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/expect/after.html?s_cid=10509:side%20effects%20of%20covid%20vaccine:sem.ga:p:RG:GM:gen:PTN:FY21">Centers for Disease Control</a> (CDC), common side effects after getting a COVID-19 vaccine include tiredness, headache, muscle pain, chills, fever, and nausea. The CDC explains, &#8220;Some people have side effects from the vaccine, which are normal signs that their body is building protection. These side effects may affect their ability to do daily activities, but they should go away in a few days.&#8221;
Puentes subsequently provided a doctor&#8217;s note and asked for a medical exemption.
&#8220;It is my opinion that Ms. Puentes be granted an exception from receiving the booster COVID vaccine,&#8221; her doctor wrote in a letter to Union College. “She currently is in an unfavorable state of health, presumably caused by the vaccine itself and getting this vaccine is ill-advised.”
She received a denial on April 11, 2022.
Pushing back against Puentes&#8217; doctor&#8217;s advice, Union College&#8217;s Director of Health Services Angela Stefanatos wrote, &#8220;The vaccine is not associated with gastritis, which is the diagnosis you received in the ER two weeks after vaccination. Two episodes of streptococcal sore throat in 7 months is not an indication of a weakened immune system. There is no evidence in the literature that vaccination for Covid19 weakens the immune system.&#8221;
&#8220;The committee is denying the request for a medical exemption for the booster.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_375092" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-375092" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-375092 size-large" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-28-at-2.54.52-PM-300x576.png" alt="" width="300" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-28-at-2.54.52-PM-300x576.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-28-at-2.54.52-PM-156x300.png 156w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-28-at-2.54.52-PM.png 542w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Courtesy of Ellie Puentes</div>
Notably, fully-vaccinated Puentes tested positive for COVID-19 in December 2021, which suggests that the student has what scientists have called “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/well/live/breakthrough-covid-immunity.html">hybrid immunity.</a>” The New York Times reported in January that hybrid immunity is the &#8220;combined protection of pre-existing vaccine antibodies and natural antibodies from a breakthrough infection.&#8221;
The Daily Wire reached out to Union College about the expulsion and Puentes&#8217; immunity but did not receive a response.
&#8220;I wish I knew, I tried everything,&#8221; an exhausted Puentes told The Daily Wire, when asked why she believes the school was being unreasonable about her request. &#8220;Obviously, it was my health that was in jeopardy, and they were not listening.&#8221;
She does have one suspicion, though.
Puentes believes she might have been an easy target for expulsion due to her financial situation. While she knows of other students who&#8217;ve received exemptions, Puentes is the recipient of academic scholarships that cover most of her tuition. She otherwise has limited economic means.
&#8220;Puentes wrote that her expulsion &#8216;felt personal,&#8217; as she is a first-generation, low-income college student and a recipient of an academic scholarship that paid for the majority of her tuition,&#8221; the Thinker reported. &#8220;She feels that &#8216;it’s easy to let someone like [her] go,&#8217; because Union College &#8216;no longer had to pay for [her] education and knew that [she] did not have the financial resources to fight back.'&#8221;
The student said it was &#8220;unjust for an institution to withdraw a student or fire a staff member because they have chosen not to comply with a policy with valid reasoning.” If she complied, Puentes added, &#8220;it would’ve enforced that what the institution is doing is okay.”
Since her expulsion, friends of Puentes have organized a <a href="https://givesendgo.com/justiceforellie?utm_source=sharelink&amp;utm_medium=copy_link&amp;utm_campaign=justiceforellie">GiveSendGo</a> account for the sophomore.
&#8220;As friends of Ellie, we have seen first-hand the injustices she has faced when dealing with the Union College administration, and we have set up this Go Fund Me Page,&#8221; the page reads. &#8220;We are making this Go Fund Me for anyone that can help support her as she is trying with her best efforts to find the proper legal assistance to figure out the best course of action.&#8221;
&#8220;Also, Ellie has been told she won&#8217;t be receiving money back from the spring term she has now not been able to attend,&#8221; the page adds.
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Her Doctor Advised Her To Skip The Booster Shot Over Possible Side Effects. So Her College Expelled Her.

Union College Student Expelled Over COVID-19 Vaccine Refusal

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden jabbed at the vaccinated Fox News reporters attending the White House Correspondents’ Association gala on Saturday evening.
The president, who spoke at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., to the assembled reporters, politicians, and celebrities attending the WHCA event, joked to the room, &#8220;Why in the hell are we still doing this?”
&#8220;I know there are [other] questions about whether we should gather here tonight, because of COVID. Well, we’re here to show the country that we’re getting through this pandemic. Plus, everyone had to prove they are fully vaccinated and boosted,&#8221; Biden added.
&#8220;So, if you&#8217;re home watching this, and you&#8217;re wondering how to do that, just contact your favorite Fox News reporter,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They’re all here, vaccinated and boosted. All of em.&#8221;
&#8220;Fox News, I’m really sorry your preferred candidate lost the last election,&#8221; the president continued. &#8220;To make it up to you, I’m happy to give my chief of staff to you all, so he can tell Sean Hannity what to say every day.&#8221;
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Comedian Trevor Noah would also mock Fox News hosts during his remarks later in the evening, joking that Fox News was like a &#8220;Waffle House.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s relatively normal in the afternoon, but as soon as the sun goes down, there&#8217;s a drunk lady named Jeanine threatening to fight every Mexican who comes in,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;How about that Fox primetime lineup, huh?&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, their coverage of COVID was really impactful. Their segments about vaccines moved their viewers into the ICU.&#8221;
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COVID-19 is an odd virus; if you catch it, it can kill you, or you might never even know you had it.
A new <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7117e3.htm?s_cid=mm7117e3_w">study</a> released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that a majority of Americans, both adults and children, have been infected with COVID-19.
Nearly 60% of adults and about 75% of children have coronavirus antibodies, indicating that they had been infected with COVID-19 and its variants, according to data collected from a study of blood samples across the country. That&#8217;s a huge rise from December 2021, when just 34% of Americans had COVID-19 antibodies.
“As of February 2022, approximately 75% of children and adolescents had serologic evidence of previous infection with SARS-CoV-2, with approximately one third becoming newly seropositive since December 2021,” the report says.
But researchers aren&#8217;t sure how long those antibodies are effective in keeping people from catching the virus or one of its variants a second time.
&#8220;We still do not know how long infection-induced immunity will last, and we cannot know from the study, again, whether all people who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies continue to have protection from their prior infection,&#8221; <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/26/health/covid-americans-cdc-study/index.html">said</a> Dr. Kristie Clarke, who led the study for the CDC.
The number of immune Americans is even higher when you throw in those who have been vaccinated.
One scientific model for COVID-19 cases released in February estimated that some 73% of Americans were currently immune to Omicron, according to a report.
“About half of eligible Americans have received booster shots, there have been nearly 80 million confirmed infections overall and many more infections have never been reported,” <a href="https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-health-united-states-3e7ab3f74080bac8480aa6de3e65ecce">according</a> to the Associated Press.
“We have changed,” Ali Mokdad, a professor at the University of Washington, told the wire service. “We have been exposed to this virus and we know how to deal with it.”
“‘I am optimistic even if we have a surge in summer, cases will go up, but hospitalizations and deaths will not,’ said Mokdad, who works on the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation model, which calculated the 73% figure for The Associated Press,” the AP wrote.
But the once dreamed-about idea of “herd immunity” — when enough of a population has been exposed to a single virus and built up immunity, which eventually ends its spread — does not seem possible as SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, keeps mutating into different variants. Omicron is the latest, but while it is more infectious, data shows that the strain is far less lethal.
The new numbers mean America is approaching &#8220;herd immunity,&#8221; even as some researchers say the virus is here to stay. Early on in the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. immunologist, put the number at 60% to 70%, but later started upping that number, saying in an <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/cnbc-transcript-dr-anthony-fauci-speaks-with-cnbcs-meg-tirrell-live-during-the-cnbc-healthy-returns-livestream-today.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">interview</a> with CNBC News that it would be “75, 80, 85 percent.”
But by May 2021, experts began saying we may never reach herd immunity. “Instead, they are coming to the conclusion that rather than making a long-promised exit, the virus will most likely become a manageable threat that will continue to circulate in the United States for years to come, still causing hospitalizations and deaths but in much smaller numbers,” The New York Times <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/reaching-herd-immunity-is-unlikely-in-the-u-s-experts-now-believe/">reported</a>.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.
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Not even MSNBC is defending President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party&#8217;s COVID response, with ultra-liberal host Mehdi Hasan blasting the commander-in-chief for his &#8220;spectacular and deadly&#8221; failure to encourage Americans to get <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/pfizer-ceo-says-fourth-booster-shot-necessary/">booster</a> shots.
Hasan weighed in while responding to a tweet from fellow leftist Taylor Lorenz, The Washington Post reporter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/libs-of-tiktok-creator-on-fame-whats-next-and-why-leftist-death-threats-wont-stop-her">currently under fire</a> for revealing the identity of the woman behind the wildly popular Libs of TikTok Twitter account. Lorenz shared data indicating that nearly half to the Americans who died of COVID-19 in January and February of this year had been vaccinated and had suffered <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/science-experts-twice-vaccinated-people-who-contract-covid-get-super-immunity/">breakthrough cases</a>.
&#8220;40% of US Covid deaths in Jan and Feb were vaccinated individuals who died from breakthrough cases. Vaccines are great, but they are not a magic bullet and leave millions vulnerable,&#8221; Lorenz shared.
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40% of US Covid deaths in Jan and Feb were vaccinated individuals who died from breakthrough cases. Vaccines are great, but they are not a magic bullet and leave millions vulnerable. Very good reporting in this episode <a href="https://t.co/2JMsIWfwtc">https://t.co/2JMsIWfwtc</a> <a href="https://t.co/vzCXLJemRl">https://t.co/vzCXLJemRl</a>
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MSNBC columnist Michael Cohen added, &#8220;And as the KFF report makes clear many of these deaths would have been prevented with booster shots. That’s the message that Americans need to be hearing … not that vaccines don’t protect them. They do.&#8221;
That was when Hasan jumped into the conversation, taking an apparent shot at the moves being made — even within the Biden administration — to treat the pandemic as though the danger has passed.
&#8220;Agree re the importance of boosters but I’m pretty sure that the best way to get more people boosted is NOT to pretend the pandemic is over, that Covid is mild like the flu, and everything and everyone should just ‘get back to normal’ asap,&#8221; he said.
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Agree re the importance of boosters but I’m pretty sure that the best way to get more people boosted is NOT to pretend the pandemic is over, that Covid is mild like the flu, and everything and everyone should just ‘get back to normal’ asap. <a href="https://t.co/zLZb9INHjD">https://t.co/zLZb9INHjD</a>
&mdash; Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) <a href="https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1518810523185389570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The best way to get people boosted is to tell people to get boosted,&#8221; Cohen agreed.
Hasan then turned his frustration on Biden and other Democrats directly, accusing them of ignoring the need for a broader campaign to push boosters on the American public.
&#8220;I don’t disagree. The lack of a major nationwide wall to wall booster campaign and messaging strategy from Biden and the Dems has been a spectacular and deadly failure, sadly. Our booster rates are shamefully low compared to other Western countries,&#8221; he said.
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I don’t disagree. The lack of a major nationwide wall to wall booster campaign and messaging strategy from Biden and the Dems has been a spectacular and deadly failure, sadly. Our booster rates are shamefully low compared to other Western countries. <a href="https://t.co/UK8YNrlsJ0">https://t.co/UK8YNrlsJ0</a>
&mdash; Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) <a href="https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1518813328856002562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Hasan is not alone in lamenting the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/live-callers-and-door-knocks-new-york-official-suggests-door-to-door-campaign-to-get-people-boosted/">low booster rates</a> in the United States. Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine suggested that, since New York City officials had the personal contact information for those who had at least begun the vaccination process, they could easily mount a door-to-door campaign to push boosters.
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We have name, address, email etc for all 3.4M NYers who got their first vax but not their booster. 
Steps NYC should be taking NOW to reach them: * Send them a pre-made appt at vax site in their neighb * Contact them through live callers &amp; door knocks * Reinstate $100 incentive
&mdash; Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1518221364234227712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We have name, address, email etc for all 3.4M NYers who got their first vax but not their booster. Steps NYC should be taking NOW to reach them: * Send them a pre-made appt at vax site in their neighb * Contact them through live callers &amp; door knocks * Reinstate $100 incentive,” Levine suggested.
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