Mike Baumeister / Unsplash 'Everything's on the Table' as White House and CDC Consider New Mask Rules: Report Is Mask Mandate 2.0 in the works? President Joe Biden foreshadowed such a move during a Wednesday town hall on CNN. By Jack Davis, The Western Journal July 22, 2021
Pixabay / Pexels The CDC Is Now Monitoring Over 200 People in the US for Potential Cases of Monkeypox Monkeypox in humans is rare and many cases have been linked to handling bushmeat and trading exotic small mammals. By Erin Coates, The Western Journal July 21, 2021
@f7photo / Unsplash 'A Stunning Number': CDC Announces Drug Overdose Deaths Hit All-Time High Amid 2020 Lockdowns 'That is a stunning number even for those of us who have tracked this issue,' professor Brendan Saloner said. By Erin Coates, The Western Journal July 18, 2021
@cdc / Unsplash Judge Reminds CDC It Doesn't Make the Law in Huge Ruling Against Vaccine Passports A federal judge sided with Florida on Friday, approving the state's injunction against the CDC's order restricting the cruise industry. By Michael Austin, The Western Journal June 21, 2021
Gage Skidmore / Flickr House Republicans Move to Hold China Accountable for COVID Since Biden and Democrats 'Have No Plan' to Do So McCarthy noted, 'As of June, more than 600,000 Americans and 3.8 million people have died worldwide as a result of Covid-19.' By Dillon Burroughs, The Western Journal June 21, 2021
Shibuya246 / Flickr New Study Finds Mask Use Had 'Little to No' Association with the Spread of COVID, Contradicting CDC This study is one of many to question the prevailing notion that mask mandates sufficently mitigated and supressed the spread of the virus. By Brett Kershaw, The Western Journal June 3, 2021
NIAID / Flickr 'WJ Live': Dr. Fauci Exposed - Released Emails Discredit Major Coronavirus Issue Dr. Fauci was one of the largest advocates for this issue during the pandemic, but in these leaked emails he called it 'not really effective.' By Kayla Kunkel, The Western Journal June 2, 2021
Edward Jenner / Pexels China Confirms a New Bird Flu Strain Has Jumped to Humans for the First Time 'This infection is an accidental cross-species transmission,' an official statement said. 'The risk of large-scale transmission is low.' By Dillon Burroughs, The Western Journal June 1, 2021
quapan / Flickr 'WJ Live': Report Finds Three Wuhan Lab Workers Were Hospitalized in November 2019 This report may lend credence to a theory that many public health officials had previously discredited. By Kayla Kunkel, The Western Journal May 24, 2021
Ivan Radic / Flickr Tables Turned: Lib Writer Argues We Should Now Ignore Science and Keep Wearing Masks 'But excuse me if I, like many of the people I see around me, am not yet quite ready to expose my lower face.' By C. Douglas Golden, The Western Journal May 20, 2021
Gage Skidmore / Flickr GOP Leader McCarthy Forces Vote on Pelosi's Mask Mandate, Dem Majority Upholds It 'The continued House mask mandate sends the erroneous message that the efficacy of the vaccines cannot be trusted,' the minority leader said. By Andrew Jose, The Western Journal May 20, 2021
Isriya Paireepairit / Flickr Airlines May Begin Weighing Passengers at the Gate 'The impact on the US airline industry is going to be significant and unpleasant,' one industry publication said. By Andrew Jose, The Western Journal May 19, 2021
@bennyjohnson / Twitter screen shot 10-Year-Old Boy Obliterates School's Mask Mandate, Takes On School Board Members One young man in Florida gave a speech arguing for masks to be optional - and every American adult needs to hear it. By Isa Cox, The Western Journal May 18, 2021
C-SPAN via @CalebJHull / Twitter screen shot Maskless PBS Journalist Complains New CDC Mask Guidance Is Racist During a Monday media briefing, Yamiche Alcindor raised concerns the CDC's new mask guidance could hurt people of color. By C. Douglas Golden, The Western Journal May 18, 2021
Gage Skidmore / Flickr Texas Reports 0 COVID Deaths 2 Months After Biden Called End of Mask Mandate 'Neanderthal Thinking' In light of Gov. Abbott's good news, it appears 'Neanderthal thinking' works better than whatever President Biden is doing. By Isa Cox, The Western Journal May 17, 2021
The Hill / YouTube screen shot Psaki Struggles to Answer When Fox's Doocy Hits Her with Biden's Own Words White House press secretary Psaki came up with plenty to say, it's just that none of it actually answered Doocy's question. By Isa Cox, The Western Journal May 16, 2021
MSNBC screen shot Rachel Maddow Admits She Has to 'Rewire' Herself to Not See Unmasked People as a 'Threat' Maddow, when discussing new CDC guidance, admitted she has conditioned herself to view people don’t wear masks as a ‘threat.’ By Kipp Jones, The Western Journal May 14, 2021
EVG Culture / Pexels CDC Quietly Changes 'How COVID-19 Spreads' Page, Adds Advice That Millions Didn't Have When Trump Was in Office Over a year after COVID-19 first took the world by storm, the CDC issues a major update on how the virus is spread. By Taylor Penley, The Western Journal May 14, 2021
Gage Skidmore / Flickr Pelosi Under Fire for Keeping House Mask Mandate in Place Despite CDC Announcement Despite the new guidelines, Pelosi told CNN's Manu Raju that she would not be changing the rules until every representative was vaccinated. By Erin Coates, The Western Journal May 14, 2021
KDVR-TV screen shot Mom: Family Booted Off of Flight Over Fears 3-Year-Old Might Take Off Mask 'She said, "You have to get off the plane. The captain doesn’t feel comfortable with your family on it,"' a mother told a Denver TV station. By C. Douglas Golden, The Western Journal May 9, 2021
The White House / Flickr Powerful Teachers Union Reportedly Had Direct Input in CDC's School Reopening Guidelines A powerful union's message weaseled its way into the CDC's guidance an reopening schools, according to a new report. By Jack Davis, The Western Journal May 2, 2021