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Former president Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Trump, First Lady Melania Trump got COVID-19 vaccine in January

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020, file photo, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., meet with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) ** FILE **

Senate GOP takes aim at Pelosi's 'tunnel to nowhere,' Schumer's bridge in COVID-19 package

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
In this Feb. 25, 2021, file photo, Assistant Principal Janette Van Gelderen, left, welcomes students at Newhall Elementary in Santa Clarita, Calif. California's public schools could get $6.6 billion from the state Legislature if they return to in-person instruction by the end of March, according to a new agreement announced Monday, March 1, 2021, between Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state's legislative leaders. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Berkeley union leader under fire for sending child to private preschool while fighting reopenings

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and comedian George Lopez on Friday shot a short video about COVID-19 vaccinations inside a restaurant in Fresno, where indoor dining is still banned. (Screenshot via Twitter/@GeorgeLopez)

Gov. Gavin Newsom, George Lopez shoot PSA inside restaurant where indoor dining banned

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
This July 2020 photo provided by Johnson & Johnson shows a vial of the COVID-19 vaccine in Belgium. The U.S. is getting a third vaccine to prevent COVID-19, as the Food and Drug Administration on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021 cleared a Johnson & Johnson shot that works with just one dose instead of two.(Johnson & Johnson via AP, File)

White House, governors make sales pitch for new J&J one-shot COVID-19 vaccine

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
A girl waves to a young man watching from Mexican territory who said he was her cousin, as a group of Honduran asylum seekers is taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents after the group crossed the U.S. border wall into San Diego, California, seen from Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

'Pandemic of people': Border catch-and-release risks spread of COVID-19

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
This July 2020 photo provided by Johnson & Johnson shows a vial of the COVID-19 vaccine in Belgium. The U.S. is getting a third vaccine to prevent COVID-19, as the Food and Drug Administration on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021 cleared a Johnson & Johnson shot that works with just one dose instead of two.(Johnson & Johnson via AP, File)

Johnson & Johnson vaccine's emergency approval to accelerate public health campaign

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this Jan. 21, 2021, file photo, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks with reporters at the White House, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Fauci: 'Too premature' to pull back too much on COVID restrictions

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times
La Mesa-Spring Valley Board of Education Vice President Charda Bell-Fontenot is facing calls to resign after she accused fellow board members of invoking "White supremacist ideology" by demanding officials set a date for reopening classrooms. (Screenshot via CBS 8)

California school board VP: 'White supremacist ideology' driving push to reopen

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
The U.S. Capitol dome is seen, Monday, July 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Democrats' $1.9 trillion relief bill would trigger $36 billion in Medicare cuts in 2022, says CBO

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times
Megan Turgeon, of the New Hampshire National Guard, fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic set up by the New Hampshire National Guard in the parking lot of Exeter, N.H., High School, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, in Exeter. The temporary facility, operating out of a field hospital tent, administers both the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

40 percent of Republicans balk at getting the COVID-19 vaccine, poll shows

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., chair of the Senate Budget Committee, heads to the chamber as senators arrive for votes on President Joe Biden's cabinet nominees, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Minimum wage hike out of order for COVID-19 relief bill, Senate parliamentarian rules

By David Sherfinski and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
In this Sept. 16, 2018, file photo, American flags are displayed together with Chinese flags on top of a trishaw in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China gave U.S. diplomats anal COVID-19 tests, State Dept. says

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
Vice President Kamala Harris, right, accompanied by Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., left, arrives to watch a COVID-19 vaccine being administered at a Giant Foods grocery store, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Harris promotes COVID-19 vaccine in Southeast D.C. as demand outstrips supply now

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser holds a public safety briefing with District officials and federal partners on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via AP, Pool) ** FILE **

D.C. mayor's sister dies of COVID-19 complications

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times
This Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, file photo shows influenza vaccine syringes at the L.A. Care Health Plan and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan's Community Resource Center's Free Drive-Thru vaccination event in Los Angeles. February is usually the peak of flu season, with doctors' offices and hospitals packed with suffering patients. But not in 2021. Flu has virtually disappeared, with reports coming in at far lower levels than anything seen in decades. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Amid COVID-19 pandemic, flu has disappeared in the U.S.

By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press
This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) **FILE**

Navy identifies sailor who died of COVID-19

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times
In this Feb. 9, 2021, photo provided by the Department of Defense, Hickam 15th Medical Group hosts the first COVID-19 mass vaccination on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. By the thousands, U.S. service members are refusing or putting off the COVID-19 vaccine, as frustrated commanders scramble to knock down internet rumors and find the right pitch that will convince troops to take the shot. Some Army units are seeing as few as a third agree to the vaccine, others are higher. (U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Anthony Nelson Jr./Department of Defense via AP) ** FILE **

Pentagon chief Austin pushes troops to get COVID-19 vaccine

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden holds a virtual bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House sending 25M masks to health centers and food banks to fight COVID-19

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
This Dec. 2, 2020, file photo provided by Johnson & Johnson shows vials of the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine in the United States. (Johnson & Johnson via AP)

FDA: J&J one-shot COVID-19 vaccine meets standards

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
This photograph released by UNICEF Wednesday Feb. 24, 2021, shows the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by the COVAX Facility arriving at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana. Ghana has become the first country in the world to receive vaccines acquired through the United Nations-backed COVAX initiative with a delivery of 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India. (Francis Kokoroko/UNICEF via AP)

Massive COVID-19 vaccine-sharing push kicks off in Ghana as part of COVAX program

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
The Riggs Hotel in Northwest Washington has devised a unique dining experience by turning some of its rooms into singular dining areas that are serviced by the hotel's restaurant and wait staff. (screengrab from https://www.riggsdc.com/)

D.C. hotels offer rooms for private dining amid pandemic

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times
A health worker holds up a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 to be administered to members of the Italian Army at a vaccination center set up at the military barracks of Cecchignola, in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2020. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

U.S. leads in rolling out COVID-19 vaccine with 1 in 20 fully protected

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2020 file photo, math teacher Doug Walters sits among empty desks as he takes part in a video conference with other teachers to prepare for at-home learning at Twentynine Palms Junior High School in Twentynine Palms, Calif. Most of California's 6 million public school students have not seen the inside of a classroom in 10 months. Gov. Gavin Newsom is hoping his $2 billion plan to resume in-person classes will get schools to reopen quickly. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Lawmakers in Virginia, Maryland grapple with school reopening bills

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times
In this file photo, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the media prior to a meeting at the U.S. State Department on Nov. 24, 2020. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP) (Associated Press)

Pompeo: Reckless Chinese virus labs threaten the world

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, prepares to receive his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, Dec. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool) **FILE**

Fauci: Vaccinated people still can't dine indoors 'because of the safety of society'

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
Dr. Clair Vandersteen, right, wafts a tube of odors under the nose of a patient, Gabriella Forgione, during tests in a hospital in Nice, southern France, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, to help determine why she has been unable to smell or taste since she contracted COVID-19 in November 2020. (AP Photo/John Leicester)

Not to be sniffed at: Agony of post-COVID-19 loss of smell

By John Leicester - Associated Press
President Joe Biden speaks about the 500,000 Americans that died from COVID-19, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

'Follow the science' Biden accused of ignoring science on key issues

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
Meghan McCain sits on the set of "The View" in New York. (Heidi Gutman/ABC via AP) ** FILE **

Meghan McCain calls on Biden to fire Anthony Fauci: 'It's terribly inconsistent messaging'

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times
Rep. John Yarmuth, Kentucky Democrat, chairs the House Budget Committee. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

House Budget Committee votes to advance $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Recent Commentary Columns

Illustration on hope after the COVID19 pandemic by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

COVID-19 proves anew that the individual is greater than the government

A Palestinian medic prepares a shot of the Russian-made Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, in Gaza City, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Military gives clues of experimental nature of COVID-19 vaccine

Illustration on the Biden administration and reopening schools by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Biden administration gaslights the American public on COVID-19 response

In this Feb. 1, 2019, file photo, Bill Gates smiles while being interviewed in Kirkland, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) ** FILE ** Photo edited for Best of 2020 list.

Bill Gates will use 'pandemic war' to control the world

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on COVID-19, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden's bungled response to COVID-19 reveals Democrats' shiftiness

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on racial equity, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden's stumbling, bumbling first steps on COVID-19 expose his weak, feeble plan

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