Hawaii Gov. David Ige (D) on Friday approved a “vaccine passport” program for inter-island travel that could begin as early as May and expand to out-of-state travel by the summer, …

The remarks rebuff efforts by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to secure an extra supply of vaccine doses as Michigan is seeing a worst-in-the-nation surge of coronavirus infections.

Sen. Rand Paul doesn’t like Anthony Fauci. Sen. Paul isn’t alone. While some view their love of Fauci as a personality trait, I’d venture to guess many of you reading this have grown tired of the media’s favorite useless bureaucrat. But Rand Paul has a certain panache to how hard he hates Fauci. “Hate” may be too strong a word. I doubt Rand “Hitler-hates” Fauci. But he really, really, really doesn’t like him.

Fauci was in front of cable news cameras again, saying his usual Fauci things about what we’re not allowed to do. Yes, even while vaccinated. The vaccine we were told would get us back to normal. Rand was not impressed.

Fauci continues to ignore 100 years of vaccine science.

His only real theme is “do what I say” even when it makes no sense.

If you’ve recovered or been vaccinated – go about your life. Eat, drink, work, open the schools.

Enough with the petty tyrants!

And furthermore:

I agree with Sen. Paul’s sentiment. Both about Fauci and going about your life. My only thing is, who are the people who haven’t been going about their lives this whole time? Yeah, with adjustments. I own like ten different masks. But I eat. I drink. I work. Kids, where I live, are in school. I find it comical that there are real people living among us who turn to Fauci to see what they are and aren’t allowed to do. At first, I thought it couldn’t be true. Then I started to see more people double masking out in the wild, and it felt like I saw Santa Claus playing a pickup game with Bigfoot in the park. “Wow, you people really do exist.”

I get why Fauci keeps lecturing what we can’t do. He likes being on television. I get why the media keeps asking him on. If not, they’d be forced to report promoting lockdowns for the past year since “15 Day to Flatten the Curve” may have been a dunderheaded thing to do. But if you’re someone who is STILL living your life based on what Fauci says you are allowed to do, stop.

Because Rand Paul is right.

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Photo by Liz Flores, Star Tribune – Registered nurse Sherry Donnahoo filled syringes with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to be used at the vaccination site at the Masjid Al Tawba Mosque.

 

The total is the highest since early January and includes 161 people who needed intensive care due to breathing problems or other complications of their COVID-19 cases. The state reported the latest hospital figures on Monday along with two more COVID-19 deaths and 1,994 newly diagnosed infections with the novel coronavirus that causes the respiratory disease.

Those additions bring Minnesota’s totals in the pandemic to 6,959 COVID-19 deaths and 544,046 known infections.

More than half of population in Hennepin County has received COVID-19 vaccine, statewide rate rises to 47%.

The state’s seven-day test positivity rate jumped to 4.4% and continued an incremental upward trend that could lead officials to again place stronger restrictions on businesses. The statewide positivity rate had dipped to 2.1% on March 13.

Officials on Monday announced that Illinois’ coronavirus test positivity rate has reached its highest point since late January, when a previous surge in cases was tapering off.

The seven-day positivity rate — a crucial figure for measuring the virus’ spread — jumped to 4.4% and continued an incremental upward trend that could lead officials to again place stronger restrictions on businesses. The statewide positivity rate had dipped to 2.1% on March 13.

The Illinois Department of Health also announced 2,433 new cases of COVID-19 diagnosed from 53,115 tests. Eighteen additional deaths were also reported.

Nearly 2,000 people diagnosed with the virus were hospitalized Sunday, according to the agency’s data. That’s the highest number of statewide hospitalizations since Feb. 10.

Meanwhile, the number of inoculations administered Sunday dove to 64,772 after five straight six-figure vaccination days, state health officials reported. So far, more than 7.2 million vaccine doses have gone into arms.

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“It’s like a check-engine light,” Retired Colonel Matt Hepburn, leader of the project told “60 Minutes” in an interview.

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It’s been a bumpy ride for Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) COVID vaccine rollout.

At the beginning of the month, the vaccine maker had to throw out 15 million doses of its vaccine after they were contaminated with AstraZeneca vaccine ingredients at an unapproved manufacturing plant. The setback contributed to last week’s announcement that the company won’t be able to deliver on its promise of 24 million additional doses of its one-shot vaccine by the end of April.

Those weren’t the only negative headlines. Last week, J&J vaccine sites in four states had to shut down after reports of adverse reactions. There also were multiple reports of COVID breakthrough cases in people who received the vaccine, marketed under its subsidiary, Janssen.

J&J is on notice regarding investigations by European and U.S. regulators for reports of blood clots in individuals who received the vaccine.

And today, the company faced more backlash from investors after its CEO was awarded a 17% pay raise while billions are being paid out for the company’s role in the nation’s opioid epidemic.

Here’s a breakdown of the five reasons J&J is having a very bad month:

1. Vaccination sites shut down in four states after more than 45 people suffer adverse reactions.

A vaccination site in Colorado, three sites in North Carolina, one in Georgia and one in Iowa shut down last week after more than 45 people suffered adverse reactions to the J&J shot.

As The Defender reported April 8, more than 600 people with appointments were turned away from a J&J mass vaccination site in Colorado after several vaccine recipients suffered adverse reactions.

Centura Health, which helped run the community vaccination center at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, said in a statement that 11 patients who received the vaccine experienced reactions. Two people were transferred to the hospital after medical staff determined they required additional observation. Centura officials did not specify what reactions were observed or their severity.

Health officials in Wake County, North Carolina, paused COVID vaccinations on Thursday after 18 people at the PNC Arena experienced adverse reactions and four were transferred to area hospitals. A few hours later, UNC Health’s Friday Center and Hillsborough Campus vaccination sites also stopped administering J&J’s vaccine.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analyzed the vaccine lot used at the PNC Arena and UNC sites and recommended J&J vaccinations continue.

Georgia was the third state to temporarily pause vaccinations after the Georgia Department of Public Health said eight people suffered adverse reactions at the Cumming Fairground site Wednesday. The CDC said it analyzed the vaccine lots and found no concerns.

The Pottawattamie County Health Department in Iowa paused operations April 7 after three of 35 people who received J&J’s COVID vaccine experienced adverse reactions. The site consulted with the CDC and determined the shot was safe.

Operations resumed on Thursday but the county now requires people to stay for 30 minutes instead of 15 minutes after their appointment to be monitored, KCCI News reported.

2. Reports of COVID in people fully vaccinated with J&J’s vaccine continue to mount.

A New Jersey man is in the hospital fighting for his life after being fully vaccinated against COVID, reported ABC7 NY. A woman reported she and her husband got J&J’s vaccine on March 6, but tested positive for COVID on April 1. The husband is hospitalized in critical condition and is also being treated for pneumonia.

According to the CDC, J&J’s vaccine was 66.3% effective in clinical trials, with people having the most protection two weeks after receiving the shot. Clinical trial data also indicated the vaccine was highly effective at preventing hospitalization in those who did get sick, according to the company.

Chief Health and Science Officer for the American Medical Association, Dr. Mira Irons, said on March 26 J&J’s COVID vaccine has “100% efficacy against hospitalization and death from the virus.”

Irons noted that White House Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, among other top experts said “it’s really important to focus on the severe end of the spectrum, preventing hospitalization and death.”

A Brooklyn woman, Ashley Allen, managed to avoid catching COVID during 2020, but was diagnosed with the disease three weeks after being vaccinated with J&J’s vaccine. Even after getting the one-shot vaccine, Allen said she continued to take precautions against the virus — masking up and washing her hands frequently.

“I definitely was very confused by it,” Allen said Monday, thinking perhaps it was a false positive.

As The Defender reported March 31, an increasing number of “breakthrough cases” of COVID in fully vaccinated people (including people vaccinated with Pfizer, Moderna and J&J vaccines) have been reported in Washington, Florida, South Carolina, Texas, New York, California and Minnesota. The cases included some people who required hospitalization, including at least three who died.

3. U.S. and European regulators are reviewing cases of blood clots in people who received J&J’s vaccine.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating rare blood clots in people who received the J&J vaccine, Fierce Pharma reported today.

The news came after Europe’s drug regulator said Friday it is reviewing reports of blood clots in people who received J&J’s COVID vaccine, Reuters reported.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said three serious cases of clotting and low platelets occurred in the U.S. during the rollout of J&J’s vaccine, and one person died from a clotting disorder reported during a clinical trial.

On April 7, the EMA confirmed a “possible link” between AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine and blood clots. Like AstraZeneca, J&J uses a modified adenovirus vector as opposed to the mRNA technology used in the Moderna and Pfizer’s COVID vaccines.

J&J said it was aware of the reports of rare blood clots in individuals given its COVID vaccine and was working with regulators to assess the data and provide relevant information. The company also noted there was no causal relationship between these “rare events and the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine,” in a statement to Reuters.

4. J&J vaccine output dropped by 85% after 15 million doses were contaminated with AstraZeneca ingredients.

ABC News reported the U.S. will experience an 85% drop in availability of J&J’s COVID vaccine, and is unlikely to see a steady output from the vaccine maker until the company resolves production issues at a facility in Baltimore, Maryland, according to federal officials and data.

As The Defender reported April 1, 15 million doses of J&J’s COVID vaccine failed quality control after workers at a plant run by Emergent BioSolutions — a manufacturing partner with J&J and AstraZeneca, whose vaccine has yet to be authorized for use in the U.S — were contaminated with AstraZeneca ingredients.

The mix-up forced regulators to delay authorization of the plant’s production lines and prompted an investigation by the FDA.

AstraZeneca and J&J’s COVID vaccines employ the same technology which uses a version of a virus — known as a vector — that is transmitted into cells to make a protein that then stimulates the immune system to produce antibodies. However, J&J’s and AstraZeneca’s vectors are biologically different and not interchangeable.

Records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by the Associated Press showed Emergent has been cited repeatedly by the FDA for problems such as poorly trained employees, cracked vials and mold around one of its facilities

According to The Washington Post, the Biden administration put J&J in control of manufacturing at the Emergent BioSolutions after the incident. Jeff Zients, the White House coronavirus coordinator, told reporters on Friday J&J is still working to address issues with Emergent Biosolutions, but expects the plant to be certified by the FDA.

5. Critics take shots at J&J over CEO’s $30 million pay package while the company pays out billions for its role in the opioid epidemic.

Proxy adviser Glass Lewis recommended investors reject the nearly $30 million pay package for J&J Chief Executive Officer Alex Gorsky, arguing the healthcare company is shielding its top executives from the legal cost of poor business decisions, Reuters reported.

J&J is attracting investor scrutiny because it excluded from its calculation of stock awards to its top executives costs related to lawsuits, including $4 billion tied to J&J’s role in the nation’s opioid epidemic and damages related to asbestos in its talc baby powder that caused cancer.

Gorsky’s compensation, which totaled $29.6 million in 2020, was up 17% from the previous year –– 365 times the company’s median annual employee pay of $81,000, according to International Shareholder Services (ISS) estimates.

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) joined rival advisory firm Lewis in recommending that J&J investors vote to reject Gorsky’s compensation deal. ISS said J&J’s corporate governance was poor, giving it a 7 rating on a scale of 1-10, where 10 is the worst. On compensation, ISS gave J&J a rating of 9, reported CBS News.

“In our opinion, the adjustments related to well-documented legal actions essentially shield executives’ compensation from the detrimental impact of their decisions for the company,” Lewis said.

Gorsky became CEO in 2012, and was at the helm of J&J during the opioid crisis which according to the CDC, claimed nearly 450,000 lives in the U.S. between 1999 and 2018. In 2019, 50,000 people died in the U.S. from opioid related overdoses, according to the National Institutes of Health.

“I think [Gorsky’s] pay was excessive,” said Rosanna Landis Weaver, who analyzes executive compensation at As You Sow, a nonprofit that promotes shareholder advocacy on inequality, the environment and other issues.

“You have to treat one-off events whether they are positive or negative in the same way,” she said. “He’s going to want credit for the extraordinarily good things that happen, like developing a COVID-19 vaccine, but that means he should also get a penalty for the extraordinarily bad things that happen as well.”

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The Biden regime is running PSA’s on television programs like Deadliest Catch, NASCAR, and Country Music TV in an effort to target unconvinced conservative white Americans who refuse to receive experimental mRNA COVID-19 vaccinations, according to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.

“We’ve run PSAs on the Deadliest Catch, we’re engaged with NASCAR and Country Music TV,” said Psaki. “We’re looking for a range of creative ways to get directly connected to White conservative communities.”

The Biden administration is reportedly launching a $250 million advertisement campaign to convince hesitant Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The White House is also reportedly investing in a community corps program, which involves using organizations like churches to push pro-vaccination narratives to the public, as many Americans don’t trust the assurances of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris amid reports of horrifying reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine.

“We won’t always be the best messengers, but we’re still trying to meet people where they are, but also empower local organizations,” Psaki explained.

Jen Psaki on plan to reach white conservatives on getting the vaccine: “We’ve run PSAs on the Deadliest Catch, we’re engaged with NASCAR and Country Music TV”

— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) April 12, 2021

In February, it was reported that the Center for Disease Control (CDC) had partnered with the Discovery Channel to “encourage the importance of mitigation measures to slow the spread of the virus, including wearing face masks.”

“We have one of the most dangerous jobs on the planet — but right now, it’s dangerous everywhere,” Hansen continues, holding up his own mask. “So when medical experts say to wear your mask to fight the pandemic, wear your mask.”

Globalist former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama urged Americans to take the experimental mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in creepy videos released by the Ad Council.

Former Wall Street power players and celebrities appeared in a another strange video telling US businesses to get the “WELL Health-Safety Seal” from the International Well Building Institute, a company with massive ties to Communist China.

“The video itself has raised eyebrows, but what is most concerning could be the IWBI leadership’s questionable connections to China and the Communist Party. In 2016, Scialla and Ya met with Ming Li, the Chairman of Chinese real estate company, Sino-Ocean Land, who later would join the Delos Advisory Board “to provide strategic advice and recommendations to help guide the growth of healthy building in China,” according to Business Wire.”

While one quarter of the United States says they would refuse to take the COVID-10 vaccine, it was reported that over 40% of the US population rejects the idea of controversial vaccine passports, which Americans would be required to present in order to prove their vaccine status “before they will be allowed to engage in commerce in a ‘return to normalcy’ that looks nothing like the past,” as National File reported. 

The Biden regime and it’s influenced corporations continue to tout the experimental mRNA COVID-19 vaccines as “safe and effective.” However, the administration’s decision to spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on targeted COVID-19 vaccine advertisements is raising questions concerning influence that the federal government has on corporate America, and why the two entities are moving in lockstep to convince Americans to get vaccinated despite officials like Dr. Fauci saying vaccinated Americans still can’t return to normal life.

‘Time For This Guy To Go’: MSNBC Panel Flames Andrew Cuomo Over $4 Million Book Deal Amid Nursing Home ‘Coverup’ in the Daily Caller, by Brandon Gillespie.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli needs to formally ask Attorney General Tish James to open an investigation into Gov. Cuomo’s disastrous handling of nursing homes — and do it yesterday. Aside from Cuomo himself, only DiNapoli has the authority to make such a referral to the AG, and so enable a state investigation with subpoena power….

WASHINGTON — With the memory of the pandemic’s toll in nursing homes still raw, the COVID-19 relief law is offering states a generous funding boost for home- and community-based care as an alternative to institutionalizing disabled people. The coronavirus pandemic starkly exposed the vulnerability of nursing home residents. Only about 1% of the U.S. population lives in long-term care facilities, but they accounted for about one-third of COVID-19 deaths as of early March, according to the COVID Tracking Project.

‘There’s over 12,000 senior deaths, that’s half of the Covid deaths in Pennsylvania’ White House press secretary Jen Psaki was pressured by a reporter over Rachel Levine’s connection to the Pennsylvania nursing home scandal at Monday’s White House press briefing.

When asked about Levine, President Joe Biden’s nominee for Assistant Health Secretary, Psaki denied the Pennslyvania scandal was comparable to nursing homes in New York, as the reporter suggested. Psaki also avoided discussing Levine’s connection to the nursing home deaths.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo must be held accountable for his administration’s botched handling of COVID-19 in nursing homes and adult-care centers, state Assemblyman Ron Kim said Sunday — at a Brooklyn memorial for the more than 15,000 facility residents believed to have died from the virus. Addressing dozens of mourners who came out to the emotional…

‘It shouldn’t take a lawsuit to obtain this critical data,’ Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and think tank leader say in suit.

The inquiry has added to the legal pressure faced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his aides over the deaths of nursing home residents from Covid-19.