Brussels Police on Horseback Stampede Through Young Crowd Defying Social Distancing Rules
On Apr. 1, 2021, European news outlets reported that police on horseback in Brussels, Belgium stampeded through a crowd of young people gathering in the urban park Bois de la Cambre on a warm spring day in violation of the government’s strict social distancing rules. An estimated 2,000 to 5,000 people showed up to attend […]
Pennsylvania Health Care Worker to Be Fired for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine
Desiree Pelletier, a 26-year old health care worker in Newville, Pennsylvania said that her employer has fired her for refusing to get the experimental COVID-19 vaccine, which is being distributed in the U.S. under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) granted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).1 2 Pelletier said that her employer, Hempfield […]
New York City Waitress Fired for Refusing to Get COVID-19 Vaccine
Bonnie Jacobson, a waitress at a restaurant in New York City’s Brooklyn district was fired from her job after she told her supervisor that she was planning to get pregnant and did not want to get the experimental COVID-19 vaccine at the present time.1 COVID-19 vaccines are being distributed in the U.S. under an Emergency […]
Courts in Spain Order Forced COVID-19 Vaccination of Incapacitated Nursing Home Residents
In what appears to be the first case of a court ordered forced COVID-19 vaccination, a court in Galicia, Spain sided with a nursing home to require an incapacitated women to get the COVID-19 vaccine over her families objections. Even though the Spanish government has maintained that the novel vaccine would be voluntary, the nursing […]
National Vaccine Information Center Opens Vaccine Conference for Free Viewing Online
On Feb. 2, 2021, the U.S. non-profit charity the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) opened the Fifth International Public Conference on Vaccination: Protecting Health and Autonomy in the 21st Century for free online viewing. The 39-year old educational organization sponsored the three-day digital pay-for-view public conference in October 2020, which features video presentations by 51 […]
Los Angeles Students Will Be Required to Get COVID-19 Vaccine After FDA Approval for Use in Children
Austin Beutner, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in California said the district would require its students to get a COVID-19 vaccine once it is available for school-aged children.1 Two experimental mRNA COVID-19 vaccines,, Pfizer/BioNTech’s BNT162b2 and Moderna’s mRNA-1273 vaccines, have been granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food […]