A 50–50 Senate has limitations and with the House under Republican control, it is important that Sen. Warnock win the runoff election — Democrats flipped the Pennsylvania senate seat in the November 2022 midterms, keeping the party in control of the Senate. There is one senate seat yet to be decided. Since neither candidate, Rev. Raphael Warnock (D), nor Herschel Walker (R) received 50% of the total votes, a runoff election has been…

If Covid infections recur this winter, a vaccine is the best protection — The FDA approved the bivalent formulations of the Moderna Covid-19 Vaccine and the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine as a single booster dose on August 31, 2022. The updated "bivalent" boosters contain two messenger RNA (mRNA) components of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the original strain and the one found in the omicron subvariants…

The first jabs could become widely available as of today, June 21 — On Saturday, June 18, 2022, CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky endorsed the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendation that all children six months through five years of age receive a COVID-19 vaccine. This decision expands eligibility for vaccination to 19.6 million additional children. …

All he did was carry out his constitutional duty as the president of the Senate to count the Electoral College votes — The title of this story is a direct quote from presidential historian Michael Beschloss, who, on the MSNBC program, Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, said the following while elaborating on Vice President Mike Pence’s silence as Donald Trump pressured him to overturn the election.

Vaccine hesitancy fueled by partisan divide is responsible for a third of U.S. COVID-19 deaths — According to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center data, the United States officially surpassed one million COVID-19 deaths on May 17, 2022. Imagine the whole population of Delaware were dead in two years. …

The Moderna vaccine seems to have a slight advantage over the one made by Pfizer/BioNTech — A significant turning point in the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. was the vaccine deployment in December 2020. Almost half the population received at least one shot within six months resulting in a huge drop in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. …

A new subvariant, BA.2.12.1, is the predominant strain in the U.S. now — This story is an abridged and updated version of a piece published in BeingWell on May 17, 2022. Can New Omicron Subvariants Lead to Another COVID Wave? A new subvariant, BA.2.12.1, is the predominant strain in the U.S. now. Two other versions are causing a surge in South…medium.com According to the New York Times, the latest numbers of COVID cases as of May 19, 2022, 103,231, a 57% increase in two weeks. This number may be an undercount. The CDC…

A new subvariant, BA.2.12.1, is the predominant strain in the U.S. now. Two other versions are causing a surge in South Africa — Based on the New York Times data, at the peak of the Omicron surge, the seven-day national average of new Coronavirus infections hit an all-time high of 805,062 on January 15, 2022. As the wave of infections subsided, the daily average dropped to 26,992 on April 3. On May 15…

Many of the deaths were preventable had more people got vaccinated — The U.S. is nearing 1 million COVID-19 deaths in the coming days. Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus data tracker reports 999,009 deaths on Thursday, May 12, 2022. “One million empty chairs around the family dinner table,” President Joe Biden said in a pre-taped video message, “Each leaving behind a family or…