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[Link] Australia urged to spend more on Covax program amid criticisms of ‘vaccine diplomacy’
Read: 30/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
Australia has distributed 18m doses of Covid-19 vaccine to neighbouring countries but is being urged to dedicate money and resources to Covax – the global vaccination mechanism – so that the world’s least-inoculated countries can access vaccines.
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[Link] Childless QAnon Influencer Ron Watkins Is Berating ‘Communist’ School Boards
Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com
Of course schools are not teaching their kids to be racist or spreading “transexual propaganda,” whatever that means. Perhaps Watkins would know that if he had a child enrolled in an Arizona public school, which he doesn’t. Because he doesn’t have a child at all.
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[Link] Omicron 'may already be here in Australia'. Experts say there's more we can do to stop COVID
Read: 28/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Just weeks after Australia declared it was opening its borders to the world, some restrictions have been reimposed in response to the Omicron variant of COVID-19, first detected in South Africa.
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[Link] The Sicilian town where the Covid vaccination rate hit 104%
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
While European governments weigh up new mandates and measures to boost the uptake of Covid jabs there is on the slopes of Sicily’s Monte delle Rose a village with a vaccination rate that defies mathematics: 104%.
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[Link] Amnesty UK accused of ‘spreading false information’ about Northern Territory Covid outbreak
Read: 26/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Amnesty UK has been accused of “spreading false information” about the Northern Territory’s Covid outbreak in an extraordinary joint statement from the territory’s peak Aboriginal health organisation and Amnesty’s own Australian operation.
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[Link] Marjorie Taylor Greene Has Racked Up More Than $63K in Mask Fines
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s refusal to wear a mask in violation of House rules has cost her more than $63,000 and counting, she said Tuesday—meaning more than a third of her congressional salary has been deducted so far this year due to masking fines.
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[Link] More than 60% of people visiting Melbourne vaccination hub did not have Medicare card
Read: 8/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
More than 60% of people who visited a Melbourne vaccination centre targeting those facing disadvantage did not have a Medicare card, while about 5% were probably homeless, figures show.
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[Link] North Dakota Republican forced to skip anti-vaccination rally after getting Covid
Read: 8/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A North Dakota Republican who organized a rally to oppose Covid-19 vaccine mandates said he would not attend the event – because he was infected with Covid-19.
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[Link] China's COVID death rate is curiously low. An anonymous Beijing doctor told us how they’re doing it
Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
If accurate, the official figures highlight the benefits of the world's strictest zero-tolerance policy, which involved keeping borders closed and moving quickly to suppress small outbreaks.
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[Link] Why are so many NYPD officers fighting vaccination?
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
In New York City, the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York (PBA) tried and failed to block the city’s vaccine mandate for all city workers. New York City police officers have been on the wrong side of public health for most of the pandemic.
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[Link] Adelaide emergency doctor withdraws legal challenge against mandatory vaccinations
Read: 4/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
An Adelaide emergency doctor who sought to challenge the state's vaccine mandate for healthcare workers has withdrawn his legal challenge in the Adelaide Magistrates Court.
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[Link] New Zealand gang leaders unite to urge community to get Covid shots
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Seven New Zealand gang leaders, representing four of the countries most well-known street gangs, have joined forces in a video urging their communities to get vaccinated, in a concept that was conjured up by a government minister.
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[Link] The Great Cop Vax Mandate Apocalypse That Never Happened
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
When New York City announced that city workers—including cops–would have to be vaccinated against COVID-19, there was howling, threats, and promises that thousands would walk off the job or retire, turning the city into a dangerous, crime-ridden hellscape.
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[Link] Pro-vaccine Fox News host receives support from CNN anchor over death threats
Read: 1/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The CNN anchor Jake Tapper reached across the political aisle on Friday to support Neil Cavuto, a Fox News host who received death threats after pleading for viewers to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
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[Link] Supply chains threatened as vaccine deadline looms for freight workers entering the NT
Read: 31/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
From groceries and hardware to cattle and clothes, freight workers play a crucial role in keeping the Northern Territory open for business. But the NT government's vaccine deadline for the industry is fast approaching.
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[Link] Millions of Americans Say They’d Quit Their Jobs to Avoid Lifesaving Vaccine
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The hesitancy is, unsurprisingly, driven almost entirely by currently unvaccinated workers.
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[Link] Australians to be able to travel to the UK, US, Italy, Greece and more without having to quarantine
Read: 28/10/2021 www.9news.com.au
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has provided a list of countries in which Australians can travel to without having to spend time in mandatory isolation.
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[Link] Queensland Police Service employees lose legal bid against mandatory COVID jab
Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The full bench of Queensland's Industrial Relation Commission (QIRC) rejected submissions that Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll had no power to mandate compulsory vaccinations, did not consult staff and infringed upon workers' rights.
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[Link] In-N-Out Refuses to Be ‘Vaccination Police’ in Dumb Move Against Mandate
Read: 21/10/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] Right-Wing Radio Host ‘Kept Hugging People’ to Give Himself COVID
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Right-wing radio host and YouTube personality Dennis Prager apparently really, really wanted to get COVID-19. Mission accomplished.
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[Link] Northern Territory chief minister and US senator Ted Cruz in Twitter spat over Covid vaccines
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Northern Territory chief minister, Michael Gunner, has hit back at US senator Ted Cruz who criticised the Northern Territory’s vaccine policy, telling the firebrand Texan conservative “you know nothing about us”.
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[Link] President of Brazil says it ‘makes no sense’ for him to be vaccinated
Read: 14/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
More than 600,000 of his citizens have lost their lives to a Covid-19 outbreak he once pooh-poohed as a “little flu”, but Brazil’s science-denying president, Jair Bolsonaro, has announced he will decline to be vaccinated, saying “it makes no sense” for him to do so.
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[Link] Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo Is Getting Fired
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Art Acevedo had a busy six months as the chief of the Miami Police Department: He unknowingly took a photo with a Proud Boy, said the city was run by “Cuban mafia,” and made enemies for pushing the COVID vaccine on officers.
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[Link] Texas governor bans all vaccine mandates, including from private businesses
Read: 13/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order late Monday prohibiting all state entities, including private businesses, from requiring people to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
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[Link] Unvaccinated patients are getting kicked off organ transplant waitlists
Read: 13/10/2021 arstechnica.com
A growing number of medical facilities across the country are directing coveted organ donations to patients who have been vaccinated against COVID-19, pushing people who remain unvaccinated down or even off of transplantation waitlists.
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[Link] North Korea’s Passport Is Apparently More Powerful Than These Countries
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
The world’s top passport ranking authority released a list that shows how COVID-19 regulations have made travel even more difficult, particularly if you’re from South Asia.
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[Link] Man Allegedly Killed Pharmacist Brother to Stop Him Giving COVID Vaccines
Read: 7/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Jeffrey Burnham, 46, is accused of stabbing to death 83-year-old family friend Rebecca Reynolds in Cumberland, Maryland and stealing her car on Sept. 29.
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[Link] ‘Save Australia’ protest erupts in New York
Read: 5/10/2021 www.news.com.au
Australia became the surprising focal point of an American anti vaccine mandate protest march for teachers in New York City overnight, with hundreds of demonstrators chanting “Save Australia” and some waving Aussie flags.
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[Link] Near death of anti-vaccine cardinal is an “irony of life,” says Pope Francis
Read: 20/9/2021 arstechnica.com
Pope Francis, well-known for his freewheeling conversations with journalists aboard the papal plane, yesterday called out COVID-19 vaccine resistance within church ranks as he flew home from Hungary and Slovakia. And he went straight to the top. Well, the irony of life...
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[Link] ‘AntiVaxMomma’ Allegedly Sold Fake COVID Vaccine Cards on Instagram
Read: 31/8/2021 www.vice.com
Jasmine Clifford, the 31-year-old “AntivaxMomma,” allegedly sold about 250 forged COVID-19 vaccine cards on Instagram from May 2021 to July, according to the Manhattan DA. The scheme involved selling these cards over Instagram that falsely stated an individual had received a COVID-19 vaccine.
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[Link] COVID Troll Alex Berenson Implies He'll Sue to Get Twitter Access Restored
Read: 30/8/2021 www.vice.com
Alex Berenson, the former New York Times reporter turned “the pandemic’s wrongest man,” as the Atlantic once dubbed him, was permanently suspended from Twitter on Sunday for violating the social media company’s policies against coronavirus misinformation.
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[Link] Reddit Responds to Calls From Moderators to Fight Disinformation
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
Some of the most popular subreddits are protesting the proliferation of COVID-19 disinformation and conspiracy theories on the platform.
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[Link] Thailand develops robotic system to up Covid vaccine doses
Read: 26/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Researchers in Thailand have developed a machine to draw out Covid-19 vaccine doses more efficiently and optimise lower-than-expected supplies as the country struggles with its worst coronavirus outbreak yet.
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[Link] The FDA Just Fully Approved Pfizer's COVID Vaccine
Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com
The landmark moment could convince some vaccine-hesitant people to get their shot—and may foreshadow a jump in new vaccine mandates to battle the pandemic. “The FDA’s approval of this vaccine is a milestone as we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic.
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[Link] Trump Booed at His Own Rally For Telling His Supporters to Get Vaccinated
Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The reason? Trump told people to go get vaccinated.
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[Link] Man Sentenced for Smuggling 80 Pounds of Speed Disguised as COVID Vaccine
Read: 17/8/2021 www.vice.com
According to Norwegian national broadcaster NRK, customs officials initially intercepted the 50-year-old Polish man in January shortly after he arrived from Denmark via a ferry.
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[Link] Pharmacist Faces Decades in Prison for Allegedly Selling Vaccine Cards on eBay
Read: 17/8/2021 www.vice.com
The news signals the criminal element of buying or selling vaccination documents, and comes as unvaccinated people seek to buy the cards or similar fakes to try and skirt proof of vaccination requested by employers or businesses.
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[Link] 'We don't deserve to be treated like this': Sydney nurse speaks out about alleged assault at COVID testing clinic
Read: 13/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
The female healthcare worker told police she was working at the Dundas testing clinic on Monday when she was approached by an unknown man who was not wearing a mask. It is alleged the man began filming the 31-year-old worker on his mobile phone before verbally abusing her about vaccinations.
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[Link] Get ready for 'Vaxzevria', AstraZeneca's rebranded COVID-19 vaccine
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
AstraZeneca has become a household name, but its COVID-19 vaccine will soon be rebranded to help smooth the pathway for millions of Australians hoping to travel overseas once the international border reopens.
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[Link] ‘They thought Covid only kills white people’: myths and fear hinder jabs in DRC
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Dr Christian Mayala and Dr Rodin Nzembuni Nduku sit together on a bench outside the Covid ward at Kinshasa’s Mama Yemo hospital.
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[Link] Greta Thunberg Got Her First COVID-19 Vax Dose and Called Out Global Vaccine Inequality
Read: 30/7/2021 www.teenvogue.com
Greta Thunberg got her first dose of the vaccine and took the opportunity to call out vaccine inequality. The teen climate striker took to social media to do what she does best: highlight lackluster leadership in the face of a global crisis.
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[Link] ‘Beacon of hope’: Whole nation jabbed in just a week
Read: 29/7/2021 www.smh.com.au
Gauhati, India: The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has fully vaccinated 90 per cent of its eligible adult population within just seven days, its health ministry says.
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[Link] Facebook Just Blocked the #VaccinesKill Hashtag Two Years Too Late
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
At least two years after it would have been politically prudent to do so, Facebook moved to block content under the #VaccinesKill hashtag on Wednesday.
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[Link] Who’s behind Australia’s anti-lockdown protests? The German conspiracy group driving marches
Read: 27/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
A German-based conspiracy group helped to drive a series of anti-lockdown protests across Australia which saw dozens of people arrested and hundreds fined after violent clashes with police.
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