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Crowds gather on L Street Beach, Saturday, June 5, 2021, in the South Boston neighborhood of Boston. New England is giving the rest of the country a possible glimpse into the future if more Americans get vaccinated. The six-state region has among the highest vaccination rates in the U.S. and is seeing sustained drops in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer) **FILE**

Vaccinated people make up 74% of COVID-19 cases linked to events in Massachusetts town, report says

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem visits the U.S. border with Mexico on Monday, July 26, 2021, near McAllen, Texas. The Republican governor deployed roughly 50 National Guard troops to help with Texas’ push to arrest people crossing illegally and charge them with state crimes. (AP Photo/Stephen Groves)

South Dakota's Noem doesn't plan to ratchet up vaccine push

By Stephen Groves - Associated Press
Spectators wait along Broadway as marchers pass through the Financial District during a parade honoring essential workers for their efforts in getting New York City through the COVID-19 pandemic, Wednesday, July 7, 2021, in New York. The parade kicked off at Battery Park and travel up Broadway in lower Manhattan, the iconic stretch known as the Canyon of Heroes, which has hosted parades honoring world leaders, celebrities and winning sports teams. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Broadway to require vaccinations, masks for audience members

By Mark Kennedy - Associated Press
FILE - In this July 30, 2020 file photo, shoppers wear face masks as they leave a Walmart store in Vernon Hills, Ill. Walmart is reversing its mask policy, Friday, July 30, 2021, and will require vaccinated workers in its distribution centers and stores in areas to wear masks in areas with high infection rates of the virus. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Walmart mandates masks for all workers in some areas

By Anne D'Innocenzio - Associated Press
FILE - In this May 21, 2021 file photo, a person holds a mask while walking outside in Philadelphia. New evidence showing the delta variant is as contagious as chickenpox has prompted U.S. health officials to consider changing advice on how the nation fights the coronavirus. Recommending masks for everyone and requiring vaccines for doctors and other health care providers are among measures the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering, Friday, July 30. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Study: Vaccinated people can carry as much virus as others

By Lindsey Tanner, Mike Stobbe and Philip Marcelo - Associated Press
Plastic vials for testing the coronavirus infection sit on a table at the Main Press Center for the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 30, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. About 30,000 people are spitting into tiny plastic vials every day at the Tokyo Olympics in a routine that’s grown crucial in going ahead with the pandemic-era Games. (AP Photo)

In effort to curb COVID, Tokyo Olympics collect lots of spit

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press
People wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walk across a shopping alley near Ueno Station in Tokyo Friday, July 30, 2021. Japan is set to expand the coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo to neighboring areas and the western city of Osaka on Friday in the wake of a record-breaking surge in infections while the capital hosts the Olympics. (AP Photo/Kantaro Komiya)

Japan expands coronavirus emergency after record spikes amid Olympics

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press
President Joe Biden speaks about COVID-19 vaccine requirements for federal workers in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden orders federal workers to get vaccinated or face testing, masks

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. to require masks indoors regardless of vaccination status

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times
In this April 21, 2021, file photo, a registered dons protective gear before entering a room at a hospital in Royal Oak, Mich. In 2021, U.S. hospitalizations and deaths are nearly all among the unvaccinated, and real-world data from Britain and Israel support that protection against the worst cases remains strong. What scientists call breakthrough infections in people who are fully vaccinated make up a small fraction of cases. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) ** FILE **

What experts know about COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infections

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times
An applicant studies the paperwork she was provided at a rental assistance fair for Jackson residents at the Mississippi Trademart in the state Fairgrounds, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Jackson, Miss. Several hundred applicants attended the two-day fair to apply for rental assistance through federal financial aid covering 15 months, and utility bill assistance for gas, electricity, water, sewer and trash removal. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) **FILE**

White House, congressional Democrats trade blame for the end of eviction moratorium

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
Danny Meyer, center, Founder & CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group, waits for the Shake Shack IPO to begin trading, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ** FILE **

N.Y. restaurant giant Danny Meyer mandates COVID-19 vaccination for indoor dining

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, people line up for COVID-19 tests at a testing station in Nanjing in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, Wednesday, July 28, 2021. Roadblocks were set up to check drivers and a disease-control official called Thursday for increased testing of workers at Chinese ports after a rash of coronavirus cases traced to a major airport rattled authorities who thought they had the disease under control. (Li Bo/Xinhua via AP)

China battling COVID-19 cluster around Nanjing

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
FILE - In this April 8, 2021 file photo, the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is seen at a pop up vaccination site in the Staten Island borough of New York. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is allowing the problem-plagued factory of contract manufacturer Emergent BioSolutions to resume production of COVID-19 vaccine bulk substance to resume, the company said Thursday, July 29. The Baltimore factory was shut down by the FDA in mid-April due to contamination problems that forced the company to trash the equivalent of tens of millions of doses of vaccine it was making under contract for Johnson & Johnson. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Emergent: FDA letting troubled COVID vaccine factory restart

By Linda A. Johnson - Associated Press
In this Dec. 21, 2020, file photo, a family walks past Cinderella Castle in the Magic Kingdom, at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)

Disney parks reimpose indoor mask rule; reversal comes amid local surge, CDC revision

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a press conference on details of his plan for Texas to build a border wall and provide $250 million in state funds as a "down payment.", Wednesday, June 16, 2021, in Austin, Texas. (Ricardo B. Brazziell/Austin American-Statesman via AP) ** FILE **

Texas governor issues order to block COVID-19 positive migrants from leaving the border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden holds a mask as he responds to a question as he arrives at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Allentown, Pa., Wednesday, July 28, 2021. Biden is in the area to visit the Lehigh Valley operations facility for Mack Trucks and advocate for government investments and clean energy as ways to strengthen U.S. manufacturing. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden pushing federal workers -- hard -- to get vaccinated

By Alexandra Jaffe and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar - Associated Press
Washington Nationals' Trea Turner (7) in action during a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Laurence Kesterson) **FILE**

Nationals' 12 positive COVID-19 cases force Phillies game postponement

By Andy Kostka - The Washington Times
In this June 7, 2021, photo, demonstrators at Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital in Baytown, Texas, wave at cars that honk at them to support their protest against a policy that says hospital employees must get vaccinated against COVID-19 or lose their jobs. A federal judge dismissed their lawsuit, saying if workers don’t like the rule, they can go find another job. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP) **FILE**

COVID-19 mandates wade into uncertain legal territory

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Candida Uraga prepares a meal in the kitchen of her apartment in New York on Friday, March 19, 2021. She has struggled to pay rent after being laid off from her job as a teaching assistant during the pandemic and was denied help under a federally-funded rental assistance program. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted) ** FILE **

New York landlords challenge Cuomo's COVID-19 evictions ban at Supreme Court

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times
New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu at a NASCAR Cup Series auto race, Sunday, July 18, 2021, in Loudon, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) **FILE**

Chris Sununu, New Hampshire governor, signs 'medical freedom' law against COVID-19 vaccines

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times
In this Monday, July 19, 2021, photo, shoppers wear masks inside of The Cool store in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reversed course Tuesday, July 27, 2021, on some masking guidelines, recommending that even vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors in parts of the U.S. where the coronavirus is surging. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) **FILE**

CDC mask guidance gets mixed reaction in states

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Washington Nationals' Trea Turner hits a single during the first inning of the team's baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Laurence Kesterson)

Nats beat Phillies 6-4 after Turner leaves because of COVID-19

By Aaron Bracy - Associated Press
In this March 26, 2021, photo, a member of the Philadelphia Fire Department prepares a dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site setup at a Salvation Army location in Philadelphia. With the U.S. pause of the vaccine, authorities are weighing whether to resume the shots the way European regulators decided to -- with warnings of a “very rare” risk. New guidance is expected late Friday, April 23, after a government advisory panel deliberates a link between the shot and a handful of vaccine recipients who developed highly unusual blood clots. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) **FILE**

Friendly persuasion: Religious push raises COVID-19 vaccine acceptance, survey says

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times
“No Vaccine, no work, no school, no in-person shopping. You have a right not to be vaccinated. I have the right to protect my kids,” Geraldo Rivera wrote. (Associated Press)

Fox News' Geraldo Rivera: 'If you are unvaccinated ... you are an arrogant, selfish SOB'

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times
Washington Nationals shortstop Trea Turner fields a grounder by Baltimore Orioles' Trey Mancini during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Sunday, July 25, 2021, in Baltimore. Mancini was out at first on the play. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

Nationals' Trea Turner tests positive for COVID-19

By Andy Kostka - The Washington Times
A hiring sign is displayed outside a retail store in Buffalo Grove, Ill., Thursday, June 24, 2021. The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits has reached its lowest level since the pandemic struck last year, further evidence that the U.S. economy and job market are quickly rebounding from the pandemic recession. The report from the Labor Department released Thursday, July 15 showed that jobless claims fell by 26,000 last week to 360,000. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Unemployed Americans file lawsuits against states ending COVID relief

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times
In this Monday, July 19, 2021, photo, shoppers wear masks inside of The Cool store in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reversed course Tuesday, July 27, 2021, on some masking guidelines, recommending that even vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors in parts of the U.S. where the coronavirus is surging. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) **FILE**

CDC reverses mask guidance in high-transmission areas

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this Monday, April 12, 2021, file photo, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio delivers remarks in Times Square after he toured the grand opening of a Broadway COVID-19 vaccination site intended to jump-start the city's entertainment industry, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ** FILE **

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio says voices against the COVID-19 vaccinations are 'criminal'

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
People wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walk past extra papers reporting on Japanese gold medalists at Tokyo Olympics, in Tokyo Tuesday, July 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Tokyo reports record coronavirus cases days after the Olympics begin

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Recent Commentary Columns

Top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci responds to accusations by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., as he testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. Cases of COVID-19 have tripled over the past three weeks, and hospitalizations and deaths are rising among unvaccinated people. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool)

It is time for Dr. Fauci to retire

Women wearing face masks shop at an American fashion boutique in Beijing on Sunday, July 11, 2021. China on Tuesday, July 13, denounced an appeal by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for a U.S.-European "unified front" against Chinese "unfair economic practices" and human rights abuses. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Face masks will never go away until Americans say no

In this Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, file photo, the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 is administered at the Arizona Department of Health Services State Laboratory in Phoenix. On Friday, July 9, 2021, Arizona reported 921 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases, the biggest daily increase in two months, as the coronavirus continued to spread among unvaccinated people. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

COVID-19 panic porn needs to end

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