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In this undated image from video provided by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals on Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, vials are inspected at the company's facilities in New York state, for efforts on an experimental coronavirus antibody drug. Antibodies are proteins the body makes when an infection occurs; they attach to a virus and help the immune system eliminate it. (Regeneron via AP)

GOP anger builds over Biden team rationing of COVID-19 treatment in red states

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times
In this March 2, 2021, photo, Hollie Maloney, a pharmacy technician, loads a syringe with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at the Portland Expo in Portland, Maine. The Biden administration’s embattled plan to dispense COVID-19 booster shots to most Americans faced its first key hurdle Friday, Sept. 17, as a government advisory panel met to decide whether to recommend extra doses of the Pfizer vaccine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) **FILE**

FDA advisory panel rejects COVID-19 booster shots for most Americans

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times
A sign informs customers they must show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 to dine indoors at Carmine's Italian restaurant on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City on Tuesday, August 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

NYC restaurant host attacked over vaccine status request

By Karen Matthews - Associated Press
In this Thursday, June 10, 2021, photo, a pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico to Yuma, Ariz., to seek asylum. The American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy groups say they are ending settlement talks with the Biden administration over a demand to lift a pandemic-related ban on families seeking asylum in the United States. The breakdown comes three days after two nongovernmental organizations said they were halting work with the administration to identify particularly vulnerable migrants stuck in Mexico for exemptions to Title 42, named for a 1944 public health law. The administration has denied many families and nearly all single adults an opportunity to seek asylum on grounds of preventing spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia) **FILE**

DHS must stop using pandemic to expel border migrants, judge rules

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
In this Sept. 14, 2021, photo, a syringe is prepared with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic at the Reading Area Community College in Reading, Pa. President Joe Biden has directed OSHA to write a rule requiring employers with at least 100 workers to force employees to get vaccinated or produce weekly test results showing they are virus free.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke) **FILE**

Biden careful not to play favorites, but Pfizer enjoys some 'comparative advantage' in mandate era

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this Sept. 11, 2018, photo, Nicki Minaj attends the Oscar de la Renta show during Fashion Week in New York. The White House is offering to connect Minaj with one of the Biden administration’s doctors to address her questions about the COVID-19 vaccine. The offer comes after the Trinidadian-born rapper’s erroneous tweet alleging the vaccine causes impotence went viral. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) **FILE**

White House denies inviting rapper Nicki Minaj, offering a call on vaccines instead

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times
In this Tuesday, July 27, 2021, file photo, a help-wanted sign is displayed at a gas station in Mount Prospect, Ill. The gulf between record job openings and a lack of people taking those jobs is forcing Wall Street to reassess the pace of the economic recovery. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

U.S. unemployment claims rise after hitting pandemic low

By Christopher Rugaber - Associated Press
Pope Francis speaks with journalists on board an Alitalia aircraft en route from Bratislava back to Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, after a four-day pilgrimage to Hungary and Slovakia. (Tiziana Fabi, Pool via AP)

Pope cites 'history of friendship' with vaccines; cardinal who resisted shot required treatment

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks to reporters after a ceremonial swearing-in ceremony at the state Capitol, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

New York requires masks in child-care centers

By Marina Villeneuve - Associated Press
President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with business leaders and CEOs on the COVID-19 response in the library of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden touts vaccine mandates, economic benefits of shots with business leaders

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2020, file photo, a woman holds a sign during a protest at the state house in Trenton, N.J. Religious objections, once used only sparingly around the country to get exempted from various required vaccines, are becoming a much more widely used loophole against the COVID-19 shot. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Religious exemption requests grow as vaccine mandates rise

By Colleen Long and Andrew Demillo - Associated Press
In this Aug. 26, 2021, photo, Parsia Jahanbani prepares a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in a mobile vaccine clinic operated by Families Together of Orange County in Santa Ana, Calif. An international group of scientists is arguing the average person doesn't need a COVID-19 booster yet — an opinion that highlights the intense scientific divide over the question. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) **FILE**

FDA strikes neutral tone ahead of vaccine booster meeting

By Lauran Neergaard and Matthew Perrone - Associated Press
Pope Francis speaks with journalists on board an Alitalia aircraft en route from Bratislava back to Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, after a four-day pilgrimage to Hungary and Slovakia. (Tiziana Fabi, Pool via AP)

Pope questions vaccine skeptics, including cardinals

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
FILE - This July 2020 file photo shows the Montana State Capitol in Helena, Mont. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Montana's legislature passed restrictive laws severely curbing quarantine and isolation powers, increasing local officials' power over local health boards, preventing limits on religious gatherings, and banning employers — including in health care settings — from requiring vaccinations for COVID, the flu or anything else. (Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP, File)

Most states have cut back public health powers amid pandemic

By Lauren Weber and Anna Maria Barry-Jester - Associated Press
UConn sophomore Sahiti Bhyravavajhala assists students moving into Shippee Hall on the Storrs, Conn. campus, Friday, Aug. 27, 2021. UConn is one of many schools across the nation mandating that returning students be vaccinated against COVID-19. An analysis by The Associated Press shows 26 of the nation's 50 largest public universities aren't requiring the vaccination. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb)

Largest colleges push student vaccines with mandates, prizes

By Amy DiPierro and Pat Eaton-Robb - Associated Press
Walgreens is now offering flu shots for everyone ages 3 and up by walk-in or appointment at more than 9,000 store locations nationwide to help protect communities from vaccine-preventable illnesses such as influenza. (Photo: Business Wire)

'Twindemic' possible as flu season approaches, health experts warn

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times
Sen. Bill Hagerty, Tennessee Republican, speaks during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing with Attorney General Merrick Garland, Wednesday, June 9, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times/Pool via AP wire) **FILE**

EXCLUSIVE: Hagerty presses Biden to let Congress decide the fate of vaccine mandates

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
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Caretaker organizations facing 'epic shortage' of direct service providers

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times
In this Aug. 26, 2021, photo, Parsia Jahanbani prepares a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in a mobile vaccine clinic operated by Families Together of Orange County in Santa Ana, Calif. An international group of scientists is arguing the average person doesn't need a COVID-19 booster yet — an opinion that highlights the intense scientific divide over the question. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) **FILE**

Republicans press FDA chief on COVID-19 booster scuffle

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and turned themselves look to purchase bus tickets at a respite center after their release, Friday, June 17, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. Record numbers of Venezuelans are crossing the U.S.-Mexico border as overall migration swells. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **

Texas county challenges DHS with ban on transporting migrants who lack negative COVID-19 test

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
In this Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021, file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting in Moscow, Russia. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Russia's Putin to self-isolate due to COVID-19 cases among inner circle

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
This Aug. 20, 2018, file photo shows Nicki Minaj at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York. Minaj has a new release coming soon: her first child. The rapper took to Instagram on Monday, July 20, 2020, to announce she is pregnant, posting photos of herself with a baby bump. One caption simply read: “#Preggers." (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Nicki Minaj cites 'impotent' friend in vax warning: 'Make sure you're comfortable with ur decision'

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times
In this March 2, 2021, photo, a pharmacy technician loads a syringe with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination site at the Portland Expo in Portland, Maine. From Walt Disney World and Chevron to CVS and a Michigan university, a flurry of private and public employers are requiring workers to get vaccinated after the federal government gave full approval to Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) **FILE**

Western Michigan athletes win restraining order against COVID shot mandate

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times
Protesters who oppose mask and COVID-19 vaccine mandates gather outside the Legislative Building, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. A growing number of communities are moving to require teachers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of aggressive campaigns to ward off the delta variant, which has infected hundreds of thousands of children in the United States. While some school districts are allowing teachers to opt out of vaccine requirements with weekly testing, New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago and St. Louis have taken tougher stances by limiting exemptions to bona fide medical and religious reasons. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) **FILE**

Companies grapple with granting religious exemptions

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Cases of Coca-Cola are displayed in a supermarket, Monday, April 5, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) ** FILE **

Major consumer lobby has questions on Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandate

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
A "Welcome Back to School" hangs on a fence at Brooklyn's PS 245 elementary school as children arrive for the first day of class, Monday, Sept. 13, 2021, in New York. Classroom doors are swinging open for about a million New York City public school students in the nation's largest experiment of in-person learning during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Students in NYC, the largest U.S. school system, head back to the classroom

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Protesters opposing vaccine mandates march past the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021. Two vaccine-related bills failed to advance in the final week of the state legislative session. But the rally's organizers said they wanted to let lawmakers know many people opposed those bills in case they tried to bring them back next year. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Majority thinks Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandate sets a bad precedent, poll shows

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts speaks Feb. 26, 2021, during a news conference at the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln, Neb. (Kenneth Ferriera/Lincoln Journal Star via AP File)

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts: GOP AGs mobilizing challenges against Biden's vaccine mandate

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
FILE - In this March 24 , 2020, file photo, a sign marks the entrance to Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. Liberty University announced a temporary campus-wide quarantine Thursday, Aug. 26 2021, amid a spike in COVID-19 cases. The quarantine is set to begin Monday, Aug., 30, and last until Sept. 10, news outlets report. The university has about 15,000 students and 5,000 faculty or staff on campus, (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Liberty returning to in-person classes after 2-week break

Associated Press
President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room at the White House, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021, in Washington. Labor unions are divided over vaccine mandates. The split has become more significant after Biden announced his plan to require federal workers get inoculated and private companies with more than 100 employees get vaccinated. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden gets tough on unvaccinated 'minority' with mandates, pivots from Afghanistan mess

By Tom Howell Jr. and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Recent Commentary Columns

Illustration on Biden's vaccine mandate by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Biden's federal vaccine mandate is purely political and anti-science

Biden Administration COVID-19 Vaccine Attack Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Biden's forced COVID-19 vaccine attack on minorities

President Joe Biden, followed by a Secret Service agent, walks to a presidential vehicle after attending a Mass at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Catholic Church in Wilmington, Del., Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

America rises against 'Vaccine King' Joe Biden

President Joe Biden speaks at Brookland Middle School, Friday, Sept. 10, 2021 in Washington. Biden has encouraged every school district to promote vaccines, including with on-site clinics, to protect students as they return to school amid a resurgence of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Biden's COVID-19 bully pulpit shortchanges families

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