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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Phillis Wheatley Community Center in Greenville, S.C. on Monday, June 14, 2021, about the importance for everyone to get vaccinated for COVID-19. (John A. Carlos II/The Post And Courier via AP)

Signs point way to Texas border as VP Harris visits S.C. on vaccination tour

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
In this Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, photo, a Phase 3 Novavax coronavirus vaccine trial volunteer is given an injection at St. George's University hospital in London. Novavax says its vaccine appears effective against COVID-19 in a large study, including against variants. Results from the study in the U.S. and Mexico were released on Monday, June 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant) **FILE**

Maryland company announces another successful COVID vaccine

By James Varney - The Washington Times
In this Sunday, May 16, 2021, file photo, airline passengers wait to check-in at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. As consumers increasingly venture away from home, demand has begun to shift away from manufactured goods and toward services, from airline fares to restaurant meals, triggering inflation in those areas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

America giddy with post-pandemic normalcy: Baseball, church, proms, weddings, vacation getaways

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
People gather to protest Houston Methodist Hospital system's rule of firing any employee, including Jennifer Bridges, second right, who is not immunized by Monday, June 7, 2021, at Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital in Baytown. Houston Methodist staff who have refused the COVID-19 vaccine so far and their supporters participated a gathering and march. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Texas hospital workers to appeal judge's rejection of their challenge to required COVID-19 vaccines

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gesture as they pose for a family photo with G-7 leaders in Carbis Bay, England, Friday, June 11, 2021. Leaders from left, European Council President Charles Michel, Biden, Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Johnson, Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi and French President Emmanuel Macron. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)

G-7 powers pledge 1 billion vaccine doses as summit kicks off in U.K.

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this March 15, 2021, file photo, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser takes a question during a coronavirus update at a news conference in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

D.C. lifts all COVID-19 capacity limits, fully reopens

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times
In this Saturday, May 15, 2021, file photo, empty vials of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine lie in a box during a vaccine campaign in Ebersberg near Munich, Germany. Health authorities are trying to determine whether heart inflammation that can occur along with many types of infections could also be a rare side effect in teens and young adults after the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

CDC looking at heart inflammation in teens, young adults after COVID-19 vaccinations

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, a security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province. A member of the expert team investigating the origins of the coronavirus in Wuhan says the Chinese side granted full access to all sites and personnel they requested to visit and meet with. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File) **FILE**

Legal watchdog sues DNI, State Dept. for coronavirus origin documents

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
FILE - Washington Football Team's Montez Sweat (90) walks off the field before an NFL football game against the New York Giants in East Rutherford, N.J., in this Sunday, Oct. 18, 2020, file photo. Sweat says he isn't a fan of the organization attempting to convince players to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Sweat says he “probably won’t get vaccinated” until he has more facts. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger, File)

Montez Sweat highlights vaccine hesitancy among athletes

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times
In this March 18, 2021 file photo, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on the federal coronavirus response on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool, File)

Fauci: 'Attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science'

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
In this March 15, 2021, file photo, boxes of COVID-19 vaccine provided through the COVAX global initiative arrive at the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia. The Biden administration plans to provide 500 million shots purchased from Pfizer to 92 lower-income countries and the African Union over the next year through the U.N.-backed COVAX program. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

Biden prods G-7 nations to donate COVID-19 vaccines, pledges 500 million more doses

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
A woman receives the AstraZeneca vaccine during a mass coronavirus vaccination for public transport workers at the Kampung Rambutan Bus Terminal in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, June 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Asia welcomes U.S. COVID-19 vaccine donations amid cold storage worries

By Kim Tong-hyung and Huizhong Wu - Associated Press
Why do some people get side effects after COVID-19 vaccines? (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

Why do some people get side effects after COVID-19 vaccines?

By Lauran Neergaard - Associated Press
In this Wednesday, June 9, 2021, file photo, visitors gather during a presentation visit of the "Grand Palais Ephemere", with the Eiffel Tower in the background, in Paris. Europe is opening up to Americans and other visitors after more than a year of COVID-induced restrictions. European governments hope to lure back tourists — and their dollars — back to the continent’s trattorias, vistas and cultural treasures. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Europe tells tourists: Welcome back! Now work out the rules

By Associated Press
In this Aug. 25, 2019, file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron, center, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, second right, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, second left, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center left, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, rear right, and European Council President Donald Tusk attend a session during the G7 summit in Biarritz, southwestern France. Helping countries recover from the coronavirus pandemic will be at the top of the agenda for the Group of Seven summit when Johnson welcomes President Joe Biden and the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada to the cliff-ringed Carbis Bay beach resort in southwestern England on Friday, June 11. (Philippe Wojazer/Pool via AP, File)

Allies hope to bond, look beyond the coronavirus at G-7 summit in U.K.

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press
Philadelphia Eagles' Nate Sudfeld, left, is sacked by Washington Football Team's Montez Sweat during the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola) ** FILE **

Sweat against COVID-19 vaccine: 'Not a fan' of information push from Washington

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times
In this Dec. 18, 2014, file photo, a person walks through a Merck company building in Kenilworth, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File) **FILE**

U.S. purchases 1.7M courses of Merck's COVID-19 pill ahead of approval

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
People sunbathe on the beach in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, June 8, 2021. Spain is jumpstarting its summer tourism season by welcoming vaccinated visitors from most countries as well as European visitors who can prove they are not infected with coronavirus. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

EU lawmakers OK virus pass, boosting summer travel hopes

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press
In this April 13, 2021, photo, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington. Fauci has been a lightning rod since the early days of the pandemic, when he was lionized by the left as a beacon of truth and villainized by the right as a misguided, spotlight-seeking bureaucrat who too often sought to undermine then-President Donald Trump. But since the release of a trove of his emails obtained by news outlets, Republicans have sharply escalated their attacks on the nation's top government infectious diseases expert. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

Fauci urges vaccination to beat Delta coronavirus strain: 'Can't let that happen'

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., waves while speaking at a Democratic election night party Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) ** FILE **

Las Vegas Democrat floats national COVID-19 vaccine lottery: $1 million prizes

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
In this photo dated Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021, a worker in protectively overalls and carrying disinfecting equipment walks outside the Wuhan Central Hospital where Li Wenliang, the whistleblower doctor who sounded the alarm and was reprimanded by local police for it in the early days of Wuhan's pandemic, worked in Wuhan in central China. A lengthy written report published Thursday, March 25, 2021, from a team of international and Chinese scientists on a joint mission to Wuhan aims to help unearth the origins of the coronavirus since it was first detected in China more than a year ago. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) **FILE**

Former Trump aides want Beijing punished for pandemic

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
In this Jan. 27, 2021, image from video, Andy Slavitt, senior adviser to the White House COVID-19 Response Team, speaks during a White House briefing on the Biden administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington. (White House via AP) **FILE**

Biden adviser Andy Slavitt leaving COVID-19 role

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden talks about the May jobs report from the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center in Rehoboth Beach, Del., Friday, June 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden creates task force to tackle 'transitory' price increases, supply-chain 'bottlenecks'

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
Washington National Cathedral Altar Guild members Anne Bowen, left, and Anne Roulhac, right, arrange flowers in preparation for the virtual Easter Sunday worship services at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, Saturday, April 3, 2021. The Washington National Cathedral offers online worship services because to the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

More than 80% of worshippers want online services to continue, says survey

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times
A student in full protective gear leaves after taking the college entrance exams in a special quarantined exam station for students who had close contacts with recent coronavirus cases in Guangzhou, China, on Monday, June 7, 2021. Residents of Guangzhou will not be able to leave unless they can show that it is absolutely necessary to do so, following an outbreak of COVID-19 that has sickened dozens of people in recent days. (AP Photo)

Southern Chinese city locks down districts, orders up COVID-19 testing amid outbreak

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
FILE - Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves speaks during his State of the State speech on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, on the south steps of the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss. Some Mississippi lawmakers say they want Gov. Reeves to call them back to the Capitol for a special session to revive the state's initiative process. Others want a chance to quickly revive discussion of a medical marijuana program. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, file)

'Very little virus': Reeves dings 'same officials' who warned states to keep economies closed

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, U.S. Democratic Sen. Christopher Coons of Delaware, left, speaks near Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska and Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois during a meeting with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, second right, in Taipei, Taiwan on Sunday, June 6,2021. The U.S. will give Taiwan 750,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, part of President Joe Biden's move to share tens of millions of jabs globally, three American senators said Sunday, after the self-ruled island complained that China is hindering its efforts to secure vaccines as it battles an outbreak. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)

U.S. to donate 750,000 COVID-19 shots to Taiwan

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
A semitruck turns into an Amazon Fulfillment center in Eastvale, Calif. on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020, in this file photo. (Watchara Phomicinda/The Orange County Register via AP) ** FILE **

From chicken wings to lumber, shortages bedevil rebounding economy

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
In this Saturday, May 15, 2021, file photo, empty vials of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine lie in a box during a vaccine campaign in Ebersberg near Munich, Germany. Health authorities are trying to determine whether heart inflammation that can occur along with many types of infections could also be a rare side effect in teens and young adults after the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

Heart reaction probed as possible rare vaccine link in teens

By Lindsey Tanner and Lauran Neergaard - Associated Press
In this Wednesday, May 19, 2021, photo, Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses are prepared for members of the community 12 years and up, at a clinic held by Community of Hope, outside the Washington School for Girls in southeast Washington. The World Health Organization’s top vaccines expert says that immunizing children against the coronavirus “is not a high priority” given the extremely limited global supply of doses. During a social media session on Thursday, June 3 Dr. Kate O’Brien said that vaccinating children “is not a priority from a WHO perspective,” even as increasing numbers of rich countries authorize their COVID-19 shots for teenagers and children. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

Louisiana AG sees fight against school vaccine mandates heading to Supreme Court

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Recent Commentary Columns

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee looking into the budget estimates for National Institute of Health (NIH) and the state of medical research, Wednesday, May 26, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Sarah Silbiger/Pool via AP)

Tony Fauci's cover-up leaves blood on his hands

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing Wednesday, May 26, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Stefani Reynolds/Pool via AP)

Fauci lays groundwork for never-ending coronavirus

Coronavirus Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Making the truth about COVID-19 a priority

The 40th anniversary of the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan is approaching, cited as significant by presidential historian Craig Shirley. Reagan had only been in office for 69 days. (Associated Press)

Reagan warned us about Fauci

FILE - In this Dec. 31, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump arrives on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington. New York prosecutors have convened a special grand jury to consider evidence in a criminal investigation into Trump's business dealings, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Tuesday, May 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump Derangement Syndrome: Was Hydroxychloroquine unfairly discredited?

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee looking into the budget estimates for National Institute of Health (NIH) and the state of medical research, Wednesday, May 26, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Sarah Silbiger/Pool via AP)

Fauci should drop the mask on Wuhan

A security official moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. The WHO team is investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has visited two disease control centers in the province. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) **FILE**

Media opts for frenzy of cartoonish smears over COVID-19's likely source

Illustration on the emergence of the Marxist left by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

COVID-19 triggered the Marxist left's emergence in America

In this March 11, 2021, photo, President Joe Biden holds up his face mask as he speaks about the COVID-19 pandemic during a prime-time address from the East Room of the White House in Washington. The U.S. is meeting President Joe Biden’s latest vaccine goal of administering 200 million COVID-19 shots in his first 100 days in office, as the White House steps up its efforts to inoculate the rest of the public. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

COVID-19 vaccine status a private affair

In this March 19, 2021, file photo, a nurse fills a syringe with COVID-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination site in Kansas City, Mo. States across the country are dramatically scaling back their COVID-19 vaccine orders as interest in the shots wanes, putting the goal of herd immunity further out of reach. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)

Magical COVID-19 serum will set us free

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