Delta Variant

Dr. Anthony Fauci proclaimed Tuesday that coronavirus will infect “just about everybody,” despite President Biden’s promise in July that vaccines would prevent infection.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated the omicron variant now accounts for 95 percent of coronavirus strains as of January 1.

The Chinese government on Sunday ordered rural migrant workers in Shaanxi province not to make their traditional annual visits to family during the Lunar New Year and Spring Festival holidays. The restrictions were part of a growing atmosphere of panic around the coronavirus outbreak in Shaanxi’s capital of Xi’an, even as the Chinese Communist regime insists a mere handful of cases have been detected.

Scientists are suggesting the omicron variant may be milder than previous strains of coronavirus, according to a string of preliminary reports released Thursday in the UK and South Africa.

Dr. Anthony Fauci reportedly revealed Thursday the coronavirus omicron variant will become the dominant strain of the virus within weeks, perhaps overwhelming hospitals’ ability to treat patients.

China announced over the weekend that it would ban local officials and staffers in Zhangjiakou, the suburb of Beijing scheduled to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, from leaving the area without “approval.”

Center for Vaccine Development director Dr. Peter Hotez said Monday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that since COVID-19 vaccines have been available, “150,000 unvaccinated Americans needlessly lost their lives because they were defiant.”

New York State has declared a state of emergency over the Omicron coronavirus variant, despite the fact that 100 percent of New York’s sampled cases in the last two weeks were the Delta variant of the virus.

World Health Organization (W.H.O.) officials will meet Friday to address concerns regarding the latest coronavirus variant on the rise in South Africa.

White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci is warning vaccinated Americans of a coming “double whammy” as winter approaches and the delta variant of the Chinese coronavirus spreads, citing “waning immunity” and essentially warning that vaccinated individuals are not fully protected.

In the wake of the more contagious Delta variant, Chinese coronavirus deaths are finally on the decline, according to a report from Axios.

President Joe Biden said Monday he wanted to get up to 98 percent of Americans vaccinated before the country could go back to normal.

(AFP) – Officers used pepper spray and made over 200 arrests in Melbourne as several hundred protesters flouted stay-at-home orders and marched through an inner-city suburb.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said that in order to get to success with handling the Delta variant, we have to “vaccinate enough people, develop enough in the way of therapeutics and treatments

Consumer sentiment collapsed due to the surging Delta variant, higher inflation, slower wage growth, and smaller declines in unemployment.

(AFP) — Hundreds were arrested after violent clashes between anti-lockdown protesters and police in Australia’s two largest cities Saturday as the country recorded its sharpest rise in daily Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began.

Joe Biden’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is mandating passengers wear masks on trains, buses, airplanes and airports through January 18, the agency announced earlier this week.

New York Police Department (NYPD) officers are being told to wear masks indoors, outdoors, and in department-owned videos if they are not vaccinated and will face “disciplinary action” if they refuse, according to a report from the New York Post.

If you enjoyed your first two doses of the coronavirus vaccine, then today is your lucky day, because President Joe Biden will soon be recommending most Americans get themselves a coronavirus booster jab within eight months of being vaccinated.

(AFP) — Australia’s biggest city announced tighter Covid restrictions including heavier fines and tighter policing on Saturday as authorities battled to contain a Delta outbreak and said they were seeing the “most concerning day of the pandemic” so far.

The Daily Mail reports that 74 people on Martha’s Vineyard have tested positive for the virus — the highest number of cases in a week on the island since April.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said that we haven’t seen “evidence in other countries that the Delta variant has been more pathogenic, it’s been more dangerous in children or adults for that

A new preprint study suggests that the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines may be less effective over time. 

China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday claimed America is currently “repeating the nightmare of the country’s failures in fighting the coronavirus” with the “Delta variant rampage” and castigated President Joe Biden for wasting “too much time politicizing the pandemic.”

Party footage from former President Barack Obama’s 60th birthday bash at his $12 million estate in Martha’s Vineyard shows hundreds of maskless guests at the celebration on Saturday night.

Economists had forecast around 845,000 jobs.

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said on Thursday on her show “Deadline” that Republicans not getting vaccinated will be to blame if coronavirus cases surge as children return to classrooms this fall, causing another shut down of in-person learning.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich expressed concerns recently over longtime National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Dr. Anthony Fauci’s “cognitive impairment,” claiming that the once outstanding immunologist has been deteriorating as of late.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – Australia’s second-largest city, Melbourne, went into a sixth lockdown on Thursday, with a state government leader blaming the nation’s slow COVID-19 vaccination rollout.

In one Illinois school district, at least 64 employees have been given an ultimatum: get the coronavirus vaccine or face termination.

Former President Barack Obama had planned a lavish, celebrity studded party at his $12 million estate in Martha’s Vineyard to celebrate his 60th birthday. Now the event has been canceled because of the continued spread of the coronavirus Delta variant.

Centers for Disease Control Director Rochelle Walensky again clarified comments she made to reporters on Tuesday, after admitting that the coronavirus vaccines were not preventing the spread of the Delta variant of the virus.

Jeannette Young, the chief health officer of Queensland, Australia, told a press conference on Tuesday that unvaccinated elderly people should avoid contact with their grandchildren after a cluster of coronavirus cases was discovered in four local schools.

Footage of police helicopters flying over beaches and parks in Australia to enforce draconian coronavirus lockdown measures is circulating on social media. 

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Dr. Anthony Fauci predicted Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that things were “going to get worse” as the Delta variant pushes a surge of COVID-19 cases in the United States. Anchor Jon

Federal Reserve officials expect the labor market to see an influx of women workers when schools reopen in the fall. That’s looking a lot more doubtful now.